The Charles De Koninck Project

Armour, Leslie. “De Koninck, Charles.” In Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers, edited by Stuart Brown, Diane Collinson, and Robert Wilkinson, 171–72. New York: Routledge, 2012. [link; Google Books]

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Armour, Leslie. “The Philosophy of Charles De Koninck.” In The Writings of Charles De Koninck: Volume One, edited and translated by Ralph McInerny, 1–68. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.

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Boyancé, Michel, and Bernard Guéry, eds. Le discernement des habitus: Autour de Charles De Koninck. Paris: Les Presses Universitaires de l’IPC, 2023.

 

De Koninck, Godelieve. Souvenirs pour demain. Les Copies de la Capitale: Québec, 2011.

De Koninck, Thomas. “Charles De Koninck: A Biographical Sketch.” In The Writings of Charles De Koninck: Volume One, edited and translated by Ralph McInerny, 69–97. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.

Dewan, O.P., Lawrence. “De Koninck, Charles (1906-1965).” In The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, edited by Eugene Benson and William Toye, 2nd ed., 283–84. Toronto/New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Gagné, Armand, ed. Mélanges à La Mémoire de Charles De Koninck. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 1968.

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Lockquell, Clément. “In Memoriam: Charles De Koninck.” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue Canadienne de Philosophie 4, no. 1 (1965): 96–98. [link]

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Madiran, Jean, ed. “Charles De Koninck.” Itinéraires: Chroniques et Documents 66 (Septembre-Octobre 1962). [link]

— This special issue dedicated to De Koninck’s work includes:

Jean Madiran, “Un univers sans personne” (3–18)

André Clement, “Charles De Koninck,” (19–40)

Ralph McInerny, “Un philosophe de l'ordre” (41–74)

Marcel De Corte, “Morale et politique,” (75–89)

Aline Lizotte, “Méthodologie scientifique,” (90–103)

Marcel Clement, “Sciences sociales,” (104–115)

Alphonse Saint-Jacques and Robert Labrie, “Primauté du bien commun” (116–138)

— It also includes an early edition of Gagné’s bibliography of De Koninck, as well as four texts by De Koninck:

“L’être principal de l'homme est de penser” (163–167)

“Le cosmos comme tendance vers la pensée” (168–188)

“Sur la tolérance: la bénignité du chrétien” (189–196)

“Liberté des consciences et droit naturel” (197–215)

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McInerny, D. Q. “De Koninck, Charles.” In Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy: Volume 3, Supplement, edited by Michael L. Coulter, Richard S. Myers, and Joseph A. Varacalli, 65–67. Lanham/Toronto/Plymouth: Scarecrow Press, 2012. [link; Google Books]

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McInerny, Ralph M. “Charles de Koninck: A Philosopher of Order.” The New Scholasticism 39, no. 4 (1965): 491–516. [link]

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Michel, Florian. La pensée catholique en Amérique du nord: réseaux intellectuels et échanges culturels entre l’Europe, le Canada et les Etats-Unis (années 1920-1960). Pages d’histoire-essai. Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 2010. — See Ch. 3 in particular, pp. 191–274. [link; Google Books]

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Oesterle, John. “Charles De Koninck and Wit.” Laval théologique et philosophique 21, no. 1 (1965): 13–15. https://doi.org/10.7202/1020067ar.

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Trépanier, Emmanuel. “In Memoriam: Charles De Koninck.” Laval théologique et philosophique 21, no. 1 (1965): 7–12. https://doi.org/10.7202/1020066ar.

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Trott, Elizabeth. “Charles De Koninck (1906-1965): Laval’s Eminent Philosopher of Nature.” Ultimate Reality and Meaning 31, no. 4 (2008): 241–259. [link; open access]

Roy, Christian. “Charles De Koninck at the Crossroads of Catholic Moral Thought: The ‘Common Good’ Controversy and Its Echoes in the Americas.” Historical Papers: Canadian Society of Church History, 2006. [link; open access]