{"name": "Wilfrid Desan", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Wilfrid Desan was born in Belgium and emigrated to the United States in 1948 to attend Harvard University.  He received his doctorate in 1951.  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."}, "personal_name": "Wilfrid Desan", "death_date": "2001", "birth_date": "1908", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "7467528", "wikidata": "Q8001934", "isni": "0000000083541689", "lc_naf": "n86110457"}, "key": "/authors/OL1069070A", "latest_revision": 7, "revision": 7, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-06-12T17:13:35.268365"}}