Phenomenology in French Philosophy: Early Encounters by Dupont

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This paintings investigates the early encounters of French philosophers and spiritual thinkers with the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Following an introductory bankruptcy addressing context and method, bankruptcy 2 argues that Henri Bergson’s insights into lived length and instinct and Maurice Blondel’s genetic description of motion functioned as crucial precursors to the French reception of phenomenology. bankruptcy three information the displays of Husserl and his fans by way of 3 successive pairs of French educational philosophers: Léon Noël and Victor Delbos, Lev Shestov and Jean Hering, and Bernard Groethuysen and Georges Gurvitch. bankruptcy four then explores the appropriation of Bergsonian and Blondelian phenomenological insights by way of Catholic theologians Édouard Le Roy and Pierre Rousselot. bankruptcy five examines purposes and reviews of phenomenology through French spiritual philosophers, together with Jean Hering, Joseph Maréchal, and neo-Thomists like Jacques Maritain. A concluding bankruptcy expounds the critical discovering that philosophical and theological receptions of phenomenology in France ahead of 1939 proceeded independently as a result of alterations in how Bergson and Blondel have been perceived by means of French philosophers and spiritual thinkers and their respective orientations to the Cartesian and Aristotelian/Thomist highbrow traditions.

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See Spiegelberg (1967), reprinted in Spiegelberg (1981, 93–104). ” 26 Biran (1942, 22). A typographical error incorrectly dates Bergson’s thesis to 1881. Also quoted in Janicaud (1969, 4–5). 1 2 Precursors to the Reception of Phenomenology in France, 1889–1909 Félix Ravaisson A chief representative of spiritualism in nineteenth-century French philosophy, Jean Gaspard Félix Ravaisson-Mollien (1813–1900) was a man of many talents and vocations. As a youth, he took art lessons from students of David.

Bergson, in fact, dedicated his doctoral thesis, Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience, to Lachelier. Lachelier, on the other hand, published rather little on account of his timidity and perfectionism; he even left the classroom after 1875 fearing that his teaching might lead some of his students into unbelief (Theau 1977, 86). A devoted Catholic, Lachelier struggled in his philosophy to proceed from the idea of God to the living God. He concluded that reason strives for 30 31 See Janicaud (1969, 186–187).

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