Maurice Blondel Author

Maurice Blondel (1861-1949) was born in Dijon, France and educated at the Ecole Normale Superieure . He defended his thesis, L'action, in 1893 at the Sorbonne. Blondel at first was refused a university position on the grounds of having taken an improperly religious position in his philosophy, but finally received a professorship in Aix in 1897.