Louis Dupré (philosopher)

Louis Dupré (French pronunciation: [lwi dypʁe]; April 16, 1925 – January 11, 2022) was a Belgian-born American religious philosopher, Catholic phenomenologist, and professor emeritus at Yale University.

[1] His most famous works included a highly acclaimed trilogy on the "spiritual sources of modern culture", in which he argued that "the nominalist theology of the late Middle Ages drove a wedge between creator and creation".

He received the Prijs De Standaard in 1982 for Terugkeer naar innerlijkheid, the best essay in the Dutch language in Belgium, a reworked translation of his earlier Transcendent Selfhood (1976).

After becoming an American citizen he was in 1989 chosen a foreign member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten.

Dupré retired in 1998, left the United States in 2010, and took residence with his wife Edith in Kortrijk, a small town in Flanders, the Northern, Dutch speaking part of Belgium.