Vladimir Jankélévitch

Vladimir Jankélévitch (; 31 August 1903 – 6 June 1985) was a French philosopher and musicologist.

Biography Jankélévitch was the son of Russian Jewish parents, who had emigrated to France.

In 1922, he started studying philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His first meeting with Henri Bergson was in 1923, and over the years the two developed a close friendship. In 1924, he completed his DES thesis (, roughly equivalent to an MA thesis) on Le Traité : la dialectique. Ennéade I 3 de Plotin under the direction of Émile Bréhier.

From 1927 to 1932, he taught at the , where he wrote his doctorate on Schelling. He returned to France in 1933, where he taught at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon and at many universities, including Toulouse and Lille.

In 1940, he was dismissed by the Vichy government. In 1941, he joined the French Resistance.

After the war, in 1951, he was appointed to the chair of Moral Philosophy at the Sorbonne (Paris I after 1971), where he taught until 1978.

In 1968, he was among the few French professors to participate in the May 68 protests.