Emmanuel Mounier was born in Lyon on November 30, 1914. He was an extremely brilliant student, but he also suffered from depression. He dropped out of school in 1931 at age 16 and turned to the study of theology at the Catholic Institute in Paris.
He attended the Catholic Institute with Félix Guattari. Guattari had come to the Institute with his brother Alexis Guattari, who was also a brilliant student, but he left the Institute without graduating
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Emmanuel Mounier left the Institute in 1935 to dedicate himself completely to his studies in theology and philosophy with André Lacan. He became Lacan's research assistant at the ENS (École Normale Supérieure) in 1936 and left it again in 1940 without his doctorate in order to devote himself completely to his work with Lacan.
Emmanuel Mounier had a brilliant career in philosophy and theology, but he also suffered from severe depression for most of his life. His wife Jeanne (1938–2009) discovered that he had stopped taking his medication when she found him dead in bed on April 24, 2004.
Emmanuel Mounier died on May 3, 2004 due to complications arising from a stroke he suffered a few months earlier. At the time of his death, Emmanuel Mounier was working on a book called "The Savage Anomaly", which traces three momentous events of modern history: Hitler's rise, Stalin's terror and Mao Zedong's victory over Chiang Kai-shek during the Chinese Civil War of 1945-1949 . In this book Mounier analyzed these events from a philosophical point of view.
In May 2004, Emmanuel Mounier was given a free hand by his publisher to edit this book before its publication under the title "Le Sauvage Anomalie". The last few chapters were published posthumously by Dalloz publishers under the title "Mao Zedong et la Résurrection du tsarisme chinois" . This book is an analysis of Mao Zedong's victory over Chiang Kai-shek during the Chinese Civil War of 1945-1949 from a philosophical point of view .
Emmanuel Mounier died on May 3, 2004 due to complications arising from a stroke he suffered a few months earlier .