Wilfrid Desan

Wilfrid Desan (1908– 14 January 2001) was a professor in philosophy best known for introducing French existentialism and especially the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre to the United States. He was a native of Belgium who emigrated to the United States in 1948, where he gained a doctorate from Harvard University in 1951 and met his wife Elisabeth. In 1952, he gained a lectureship at the philosophy department of Kenyon College. In 1957, he joined Georgetown University where he remained for the rest of his academic career and where he enjoyed a good reputation as teacher and a clear writer. He also had appointments as distinguished visiting professor at Villanova University and visiting professor at George Mason University. He developed his own noetic philosophy in his three-volume work ''The Planetary Man'', a prescient, pioneering vision of globalisation unifying the world's peoples. Provided by Wikipedia