Philosopher
Ernest Renan
Overview
Joseph Ernest Renan ( ruh-NAHN; French: [ʒozɛf ɛʁnɛst ʁənɑ̃]; 27 February 1823 – 2 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic. He wrote works on the origins of early Christianity, and espoused popular political theories especially concerning nationalism, national identity, and the superiority of White people over other human races.
Renan is among the first scholars to advance the Khazar theory, which held that Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of the Khazars, Turkic peoples who had adopted the Jewish religion and allegedly migrated to central and eastern Europe following the collapse of their khanate. On this basis he alleged that the Jews were "an incomplete race."
He led an archaeological expedition "Mission to Phoenicia. 1864-1874" to Lebanon, Syria and Palestine trying to track the ancient Phoenicians.
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Philosophers who discussed Ernest Renan
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Pietro Pomponazzi
- Voltaire
- Averroes
- Brand Blanshard
- Georges Sorel
- José Ortega y Gasset
- James Martineau
- Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera
- Branislav Petronijević
- Averroes's Search
- Stefan Pawlicki
- Kiyoshi Miki
Ideas Ernest Renan discusses
- Albert Schweitzer
- Ethnicity
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Matthew Arnold
- Athena
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Galilee
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- History of religion
- Arthur de Gobineau
- Immanuel Kant
- Ashkenazi Jews
- Idealism
- James Joyce
- St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
- Peru
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Metaphysics
- Benito Mussolini
- National identity
- Moses
- Hippolyte Taine
Place in the tradition
Part of Averroism.