Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France

Volume 2 - Studies

Kirill Chepurin, Adi Efal-Lautenschläger, Daniel Whistler, Ayşe Yuva

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9783031393259
• eBook ISBN: 9783031393266
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: World History

Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France is a two-volume work that documents the French reception of G. W. F. Hegel and F. W. J. Schelling from 1801 to 1848. It shows that the story of the "French Hegel" didn't begin with Wahl and Kojève by giving readers a solid understanding of the various ways in which German Idealism impacted nineteenth-century French philosophy, as well as providing the first ever English-language translations of excerpts from the most important philosophical texts of the era.

Inside volume two, readers will find a series of scholarly studies to help them get to grips with this neglected field in the history of ideas. The contributors are world-leading and emerging experts from Europe, UK, and North America. They highlight the stakes and trace the pathways of this reception for French and German thought during the period, including the ways in which French philosophers of the period took up the debates and concepts of German Idealism,transformed them or rejected them. In this way, the volume aims to redress the serious neglect of early nineteenth-century French thought in English-language scholarship and, in so doing, goes beyond a nation-based narrative of the history of philosophy.

Figures covered in the volumes include major philosophers such as Cousin, Leroux, Proudhon, Quinet, Ravaisson, Renouvier and Véra, as well more neglected figures, like Barchou de Penhoën, Bénard, Lèbre, Lerminier, Pictet, and Willm.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Cousin’s and Leroux’s Antagonistic Visions of German Idealism
• 2. Becoming Cousin: Eclecticism, Spiritualism and Hegelianism Before 1833
• 3. Ravaisson After Schelling: Purposiveness Without Purpose in Genius and Habit
• 4. Line, Vine, and Grace: Ravaisson’s Spiral and Schelling’s Vortex
• 5. “Naturism” in Place of Idealism: Henri Ducrotay de Blainville and Auguste Comte on Naturphilosophie
• 6. The Reception of German Philosophy in the Mind of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
• 7. Pantheism and the Dangers of Hegelianism in Nineteenth-Century France
• 8. Hegel’s Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century France: Charles Bénard’s Translation and Its Reception
• 9. Augusto Vera’s Mystical Conception of Hegelianism
• 10. Charles Renouvier, Modern French Philosophy, and the Great Learned Men of Germany
• Back Matter