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3 unusual facts about Emmanuel Mounier


Emmanuel Mounier

Mounier, who was the child of peasants, was a brilliant scholar at the Sorbonne.

Peter Maurin used to say wherever he went, "There is a man in France called Emmanuel Mounier. He wrote a book called The Personalist Manifesto. You should read that book."

Progressive League

Influenced by Emmanuel Mounier, Jack Coates left the League in 1945, founding the London Personalist League.


Zeev Sternhell

Sternhell's identification of Spiritualism with Fascism has also given rise to debate, in particular his claim that Emmanuel Mounier's personalism movement "shared ideas and political reflexes with Fascism".


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