Denis de rougemont biography books

Swiss writer and cultural theorist

Denys Louis de Rougemont (September 8, 1906 – December 6, 1985), known as Denis de Rougemont (French:[dənidəʁuʒmɔ̃]), was a Swiss writer and cultural theorist who wrote in French.

One of the non-conformists of the 1930s, he addressed the perils of totalitarianism from a Christian point of view. After the Second World War, he promoted European federalism.

Life

He studied at the University of Neuchâtel and in Vienna, and then moved to Paris in 1930.

There he wrote for and edited various publications, associating with the personalist groupings and the non-conformists of the 1930s: with Emmanuel Mounier and Arnaud Dandieu, he founded the magazines Esprit and L'Ordre Nouveau, and he also co-founded a magazine, with Roland de Pury, on existential theology, Hic et Nunc.^[1]

In June 1940, fearing that defeatism and the pressure of Nazi propaganda (and armies) would lead the federal government to