Monographs by Daniel Whistler
François Hemsterhuis, 1721-1790, was the most significant Dutch philosopher after Spinoza. Daniel... more François Hemsterhuis, 1721-1790, was the most significant Dutch philosopher after Spinoza. Daniel Whistler argues that Hemsterhuis' philosophy matters and that its exclusion from the canon of modern philosophy has been unjust. This is not just because of its influence on later German thinkers, such as Goethe, Hegel, Herder, Jacobi, Lessing and Novalis - but primarily because Hemsterhuis' philosophy contains such a rich assemblage of ideas and philosophical practices. Whistler looks specifically at Hemsterhuis' reflections on philosophical style and the strategies he employs to communicate and disclose ideas in his late dialogues. Taking seriously Hemsterhuis' newly-published complete correspondence as a significant philosophical text, he contends that Hemsterhuis deserves to be placed alongside Schlegel, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche as one of the preeminent philosophical stylists of modernity.
The book is available here for purchase: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-francois-hemsterhuis-and-the-writing-of-philosophy.html
Co-authored with Benjamin Berger and co-translated with Judith Kahl.
During the first decade of ... more Co-authored with Benjamin Berger and co-translated with Judith Kahl.
During the first decade of the 19th century, F. W. J. Schelling was involved in 3 distinct controversies with one of his most perceptive and provocative critics, A. C. A. Eschenmayer. The first of these controversies took place in 1801 and focused on the philosophy of nature. Now, Berger and Whistler provide a ground-breaking account of this moment in the history of philosophy. They argue that key Schellingian concepts, such as identity, potency and abstraction, were first forged in his early debate with Eschenmayer. Through a series of translations and commentaries, they show that the 1801 controversy is an essential resource for understanding Schelling’s thought, the philosophy of nature and the origins of absolute idealism.
Additionally, Berger and Whistler demonstrate how the Schelling–Eschenmayer controversy raises important issues for the philosophy of nature today, including questions about the relation between identity and difference and the possibility of explaining sensible qualities in terms of quantity. This ultimately leads to the formulation of the most basic methodological question for the philosophy of nature: must this philosophy be based upon a prior consideration of consciousness – as Eschenmayer insists – or might it simply begin with nature itself? By arguing for the latter position, Schelling challenges us to entertain the possibility that the philosophy of nature is first philosophy.
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Few issues concerning religious freedom provoke so much controversy and debate as the extent to w... more Few issues concerning religious freedom provoke so much controversy and debate as the extent to which religious symbols should be protected in the public sphere and the workplace. This book provides the first sustained philosophical analysis of the concepts at issue in this debate, as well as covering all the major recent cases brought under Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights, including the landmark judgment Eweida v UK. In particular, it gives a clear presentation of the current state of the case-law, grounding it, in a unique contribution to the debate, in an investigation of its philosophical underpinnings. Particular attention is paid to different functions of the symbol and their theoretical background, with new emphasis on the role of the symbol in bearing witness to faith. This book will open up new vistas for philosophers of religion and legal theorists alike.
This study reconstructs F.W.J. Schelling's philosophy of language based on a detailed reading of ... more This study reconstructs F.W.J. Schelling's philosophy of language based on a detailed reading of §73 of Schelling's lectures on the Philosophy of Art. Daniel Whistler argues that the concept of the symbol present in this lecture course, and elsewhere in Schelling's writings of the period, provides the key for a non-referential conception of language, where what matters is the intensity at which identity is produced. Such a reconstruction leads Whistler to a detailed analysis of Schelling's system of identity, his grand project of the years 1801 to 1805, which has been continually neglected by contemporary scholarship. In particular, Whistler recovers the concepts of quantitative differentiation and construction as central to Schelling's project of the period. This reconstruction also leads to an original reading of the origins of the concept of the symbol in German thought: there is not one 'romantic symbol', but a whole plethora of experiments in theorising symbolism taking place at the turn of the nineteenth century. At stake, then, is Schelling as a philosopher of language, Schelling as a systematiser of identity, and Schelling as a theorist of the symbol.
Editions and Anthologies by Daniel Whistler
Co-edited with Delphine Antoine-Mahut.
The first English translation of some of Victor Cousin'... more Co-edited with Delphine Antoine-Mahut.
The first English translation of some of Victor Cousin's most important philosophical writings for over 150 years, accompanied by extensive contextual and analytic resources from a team of internationally recognized Cousin scholars. Victor Cousin was a towering philosophical figure of the nineteenth century: no French philosopher since has fully escaped his shadow. This edition of Philosophical Fragments brings together a series of Cousin's most accessible and significant texts to introduce English-language readers to his thought, along with commentaries on his relationship to Cartesianism, his role in the invention of the historiography of philosophy, as well as his lasting institutional legacy. The edition includes some of the founding texts of modern French philosophy, such as Cousin's 1826 Preface to Philosophical Fragments, the 'manifesto' by means of which he relaunched the French spiritualist project and set out his own eclectic project in the history of philosophy; his 1833 Preface to Philosophical Fragments, in which he responds to mounting criticism of his version of spiritualism by setting out definitively his relations to Descartes, eighteenth-century sensualism, German Idealism, and Catholic theology; and a selection of the Fragments themselves, charting the genesis of his philosophy from the 1810s to the 1840s.
CONTENTS
Editors' Preface: Victor Cousin, Eclectic Philosophy and its Legacies
Note on Editions, Abbreviations, and Translations
Part One: Introductions
1. Cousin and French Philosophy, Delphine Antoine-Mahut
2. Cousin and the Politics of Philosophy, Félix Barancy and Sarah Bernard-Granger
3. Cousin and the History of Philosophy, Pierre-François Moreau
4. Cousin and the Eighteenth Century, Lucie Rey
5. Cousin and the Problem of Metaphysics, Daniel Whistler
Part Two: Texts
The Three Prefaces
6. Preface to the 1826 Edition of Philosophical Fragments
7.Preface to the 1833 Edition of Philosophical Fragments
8. Prefatory Note to the 1838 Edition of Philosophical Fragments
1816-1818
9. On the Moral Law and Freedom
10. On the True Meaning of the cogito, ergo sum
11. Attempt at a Classification of Philosophical Questions and Schools
12. On the Fact of Consciousness
13. On the Clear and the Obscure in Knowledge, or On Spontaneity and Reflection
14. On Real Beauty and Ideal Beauty
1826-1830
15. The True Beginning of the History of Philosophy
16. Plato: Language of the Theory of Ideas
17. Plato
18. Prefatory Note to New Philosophical Fragments
19. Preface to the Translation of Tennemann's Manual of the History of Philosophy
20. From Review of Reiffenberg's On Eclecticism
After 1833
21. Introduction to the Posthumous Works of Maine de Biran
22. From Abelard
23. From Foreword to On Pascal's Pensées
24. Foreword to Fragments of Cartesian Philosophy
Appendix: Two Edicts Issued by the Royal Council of Public Education
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Co-edited with Kirill Chepurin, Adi Efal-Lautenschlaeger and Ayse Yuva.
Hegel and Schelling i... more Co-edited with Kirill Chepurin, Adi Efal-Lautenschlaeger and Ayse Yuva.
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. 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.
Contents:
1. Cousin's and Leroux's Antagonistic Visions of German Idealism, Lucie Rey
2. Becoming Cousin: Eclecticism, Spiritualism and Hegelianism before 1833, Daniel Whistler
3. Ravaisson after Schelling: Purposiveness without Purpose in Genius and Habit, Mark Sinclair
4. Line, Vine, and Grace: Ravaisson’s Spiral and Schelling’s Vortex, Ben Woodard
5. “Naturism” in place of Idealism: Henri Ducrotay de Blainville and Auguste Comte on Naturphilosophie, Laurent Clauzade
6. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and the Reception of German Philosophy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France, Edward Castleton
7. Pantheism and the Dangers of Hegelianism in Nineteenth-Century France, Kirill Chepurin
8. Hegel’s Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century France: Charles Bénard’s Translation and its Reception, Élisabeth Décultot
9. Augusto Vera’s Mystical Conception of Hegelianism, Andrea Bellantone
10. Charles Renouvier, Modern French Philosophy, and the Great Learned Men of Germany, Jeremy Dunham
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Co-edited with Kirill Chepurin, Adi Efal-Lautenschlaeger and Ayse Yuva.
Hegel and Schelling in... more Co-edited with Kirill Chepurin, Adi Efal-Lautenschlaeger and Ayse Yuva.
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 one, readers will find a number of interpretative frameworks to help them get to grips with this neglected field in the history of ideas. In addition to excerpted translations and a narrative of Hegel’s and Schelling’s fate in France during the early nineteenth century, this volume includes an introduction on transnational reception history, as well as an analytical catalogue of the translations of their work produced in French at this time, of the publications which appropriated or interrogated their philosophical legacy, and of the journals, institutional structures and other mechanisms of dissemination that brought Hegel’s and Schelling’s philosophy into France. The book thus details 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, it aims to contribute to a reversal of 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 as more neglected figures, like Barchou de Penhoën, Bénard, Lèbre, Lerminier, Pictet, and Willm.
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Co-edited and translated with Jacob van Sluis.
Vol. 3 of The Edinburgh Edition of the Philosophi... more Co-edited and translated with Jacob van Sluis.
Vol. 3 of The Edinburgh Edition of the Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis.
A complete edition with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries, tracing Hemsterhuis' remarkable influence on the French Enlightenment, German Idealism and German Romanticism.
This final volume in The Edinburgh Edition of the Complete Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis includes the Letter on Atheism, the Letter on Fatalism and the Letter on Optics—all penned as part of his remarkable correspondence with Amalie Gallitzin—as well as the unpublished dialogue, Alexis II. Also included is Hemsterhuis’ philosophical responses to Plato, Spinoza and Diderot, to contemporary political events in the Dutch Republic and to the French Revolution.
The book is available here for purchase: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-philosophical-correspondence-and-unpublished-writings-of-francois-hemsterhuis.html
Co-edited and translated with Jacob van Sluis.
Vol. 2 of The Edinburgh Edition of the Philosophi... more Co-edited and translated with Jacob van Sluis.
Vol. 2 of The Edinburgh Edition of the Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis
A complete edition of François Hemsterhuis’ widely influential late dialogues, with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries.
This collection translates four of Hemsterhuis’ late dialogues into English for the first time. These writings offer diverse treatments of non-materialist philosophy. 'Sophylus' is concerned with providing the basic epistemological structures that Hemsterhuis believes are compatible with common sense, Socratic inquiry and Newtonian science. 'Aristeaus' is a sustained series of reflections on arguments for the existence of God, concepts of order and chaos in the universe. 'Simon' is closely modelled on Plato’s Symposium in style, structure and content and provides the clearest statement of Hemsterhuis’ late ethics and aesthetics. 'Alexis' – the favourite work of many of the German Romantics – uses contemporary discussions of astronomy and optics to formulate a mythic ode to the role of enthusiasm and feeling in the constitution of wisdom
Two editorial introductions supplement these translations. The first, by Daniel Whistler, considers Hemsterhuis’ relationship with Amalie Gallitzin and how that influenced what he came to call ‘our philosophy’. In the second, Laure Cahen-Maurel examines the role played by Jacobi and others in the transmission of these texts and their influence on Hölderlin’s Hyperion and Novalis’ Hemsterhuis-Studies in particular.
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Co-edited and translated with Jacob van Sluis.
Vol 1 of the Edinburgh Edition of the Philosophic... more Co-edited and translated with Jacob van Sluis.
Vol 1 of the Edinburgh Edition of the Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis
The first ever English translation of François Hemsterhuis’ early series of philosophical letters published during the 1760s and 1770s
This complete edition publishes Hemsterhuis’ 'Letter on an Antique Gemstone', 'Letter on Sculpture', 'Letter on Desires', 'Letter on Man and his Relations' and 'Philosophical Description of the Character of the Late Mr. F. Fagel' chronologically to gradually reveal Hemsterhuis’ complete systematic vision.
These letters are supplemented by three introductions. The first by Peter Sonderen pinpoints the significance of Hemsterhuis’ remarkably influential aesthetics. The second by Jacob van Sluis provides the context to 'Letter on Man and his Relations'. And the third by Gabriel Trop focuses on the importance of these writings in the history of ideas, especially Herder’s translation and ‘Postscript’ to the 'Letter on Desires', Diderot’s commentary on the 'Letter on Man and his Relations' and Goethe’s incorporation of Hemsterhuis’ definition of beauty into his aesthetic reflections.
The book is available here for purchase: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-early-writings-of-francois-hemsterhuis-1762-1773.html
Co-edited with Lydia Azadpour.
Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer (1765-1844) was the 'father of philosoph... more Co-edited with Lydia Azadpour.
Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer (1765-1844) was the 'father of philosophy of nature' owing to his profound influence on German Idealist and Romantic Naturphilosophie. With the recent growth of interest in Idealist and Romantic philosophy of nature in the UK and abroad, the importance of Kielmeyer's work is being increasingly recognised and special attention is being paid to his influence on biology's development as a distinct discipline at the end of the eighteenth century. In this exciting new book, Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler present the first ever English translations of key texts by Kielmeyer, along with contextual and interpretative essays by leading international scholars, who are experts on the philosophy of nature and the formation of the life sciences in the late eighteenth century. The topics they cover include: the laws of nature, the concept of force, the meaning of 'organism', the logic of recapitulation, Kielmeyer and ecology, sexual differentiation in animal life and Kielmeyer's relationship to Kant, Schelling and Hegel. In doing so, they provide a comprehensive English reference to Kielmeyer's historical and contemporary significance.
Contents
One: Editors’ Introduction, Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler
Two: Kielmeyer’s Fame and Fate, Kai Torsten Kanz
Part One: Kielmeyer’s 1793 Speech
Three: On the Relations between Organic Forces in the Series of Different Organisations, and on the Laws and Consequences of these Relations, C. F. Kielmeyer
Part Two: Selected Unpublished Texts by Kielmeyer
Four: On Natural History, C. F. Kielmeyer
Five: Ideas for a Developmental History of the Earth and its Organisations: Letter to Windischmann, 1804, C. F. Kielmeyer
Six: On Kant and German Philosophy of Nature: Letter to Cuvier, 1807, C. F. Kielmeyer
Part Three: Interpretations
Seven: Force and Law in Kielmeyer’s 1793 Speech, Andrew Cooper
Eight: Organic Physics as a Phenomenology of the Organic, Thomas Bach
Nine: The Path of the Great Machine: Kielmeyer’s Economy of Extinction, Lydia Azadpour
Ten: Recapitulation All the Way Down? Philosophical Ontogeny in Kielmeyer and Schelling, Iain Hamilton Grant
Eleven: Kielmeyer and the Cybernetics of the Organic World, Andrea Gambarotto
Twelve: Reproduction, Production and the Earth: The Place of Sex in Kielmeyer’s ‘Economy of the Organic World’, Susanne Lettow
Thirteen: Mechanics beyond the Machine in Kielmeyer and Eschenmayer, Jocelyn Holland
Fourteen: The Logic of Organic Forces: Hegel’s Critique of Kielmeyer, Benjamin Berger
Available here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/kielmeyer-and-the-organic-world-9781350143463/.
Co-edited with Benjamin Berger.
F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) stands alongside J.G. Fichte and G.... more Co-edited with Benjamin Berger.
F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) stands alongside J.G. Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel as one of the great philosophers of the German idealist tradition. The Schelling Reader introduces students to Schelling's philosophy by guiding them through the first ever English-language anthology of his key texts-an anthology which showcases the vast array of his interests and concerns (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of nature, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of religion and mythology, and political philosophy). The reader includes the most important passages from all of Schelling's major works as well as lesser-known yet illuminating lectures and essays, revealing a philosopher rigorously and boldly grappling with some of the most difficult philosophical problems for over six decades, and constantly modifying and correcting his earlier thought in light of new insights.
Schelling's evolving philosophies have often presented formidable challenges to the teaching of his thought. For the first time, The Schelling Reader arranges readings from his work thematically, so as to bring to the fore the basic continuity in his trajectory, as well as the varied ways he tackles perennial problems. Each of the twelve chapters includes sustained readings that span the whole of Schelling's career, along with explanatory notes and an editorial introduction that introduces the main themes, arguments, and questions at stake in the text. The Editors' Introduction to the volume as a whole also provides important details on the context of Schelling's life and work to help students effectively engage with the material.
Contents
Part One: Metaphysics
1. The Unconditioned
2. Identity and Difference
3. Nature
4. Time, Space and the Categories
Part Two: Philosophical Methods
5. Intuition, Construction and Recollection
6. Reason and Experience
7. System
8. History of Philosophy
Part Three: The Ideal World
9. Freedom
10. Art and Mythology
11. Religion
12. Politics
The book is available here for purchase: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-schelling-reader-9781350053328/
Collections and Special Issues by Daniel Whistler
Co-edited with Mark Sinclair.
French philosophy is an internationally celebrated national phil... more Co-edited with Mark Sinclair.
French philosophy is an internationally celebrated national philosophical tradition, and this Oxford Handbook offers a comprehensive approach to its history since 1800. The Handbook features essays written by renowned international specialists, illuminating key movements and positions, themes and thinkers in nineteenth-, twentieth- and even twenty-first-century French philosophy. The volume takes into account developments in recent historical scholarship by broadening the notion of Modern French Philosophy in two ways. Whereas recent approaches in the field have often ignored early nineteenth-century developments, this volume offers comprehensive treatment of French thought of this period in order to grasp better later developments. Moreover, the volume extends the canon at the other end of the period of Modern French Philosophy by including work on philosophers who have come to prominence only in the last ten or twenty years. The volume takes 'French philosophy' in a broad sense to include all philosophy carried out in France over the last 200 years, and it illuminates the institutional and cultural background of this national philosophical tradition in such a way as to provide a fuller and more comprehensive understanding of its unity and of its more famous moments in the twentieth century.
CONTENTS
1. Editors' Introduction, Mark Sinclair and Daniel Whistler
Part I: Movements and Positions
2. Maine de Biran and the Legacy of Ideology, Anne Dévarieux
3. Eclecticism and its Discontents, Delphine Antoine-Mahut
4. Positivisms and Spiritualisms: Quarrels and Appropriations, Annie Petit
5. Vacherot and his Circle: Philosophy and Religion in the Pantheism Controversy, Ayse Yuva
6. Spiritualism as a Philosophy of Culture: Ravaisson and Boutroux, Tullio Viola
7. Charles Renouvier on the Necessary Conditions of the Scientific Mind: Passion, Habit, and Will, Jeremy Dunham
8. Bergson after Boutroux on Freedom and Contingency, Mark Sinclair
9. Jean-Marie Guyau on Morality and Life, Keith Ansell-Pearson and Federico Testa
10. Léon Brunschwicg and the Development of French Neo-Kantianism, Pietro Terzi
11. Simone Weil's Practical Philosophy, Philip Goodchild
12. Early Existentialisms, Kate Kirkpatrick
13. Historical Epistemology: A Broader and More Complex View, Cristina Chimisso
14. Merleau-Ponty: A Bergsonian in the Making, Donald Landes
15. Frantz Fanon, Philosophising (in) the Colonial Situation, Lucie K. Mercier
16. Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch: Sociality and the Second-Person, Michael L. Morgan
17. Foucault and the Task of Philosophy, Johanna Oksala
18. Ethics and Ontology in French Hermeneutics: The Case of Ricœur, Gaëlle Fiasse
19. Deleuze or Lyotard?, Frédéric Fruteau de Laclos
20. French Phenomenology after 1961, Françoise Dastur
21. Irigaray and Feminism in French Philosophy after Beauvoir, Rachel Jones
22. Deconstruction and Forgiveness: The Final Phase of Derrida's Thought, Leonard Lawlor
23. Badiou's Being and Event Trilogy and the Pas de Deux with Deleuze, Sean Bowden and Caitlyn Lesiuk
24. The Non-Philosophy of François Laruelle, Rocco Gangle
Part II: Influences
25. Descartes in Modern French Philosophy, Andrea Gadberry
26. Spinoza in Modern French Philosophy, Knox Peden
27. Hegel in Modern French Philosophy, Andrea Bellantone
28. Marx in Modern French Philosophy, Frank Fischbach
29. Heidegger in Modern French Philosophy, François Raffoul
30. French Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Barry Dainton
Part III: Themes
31. Aesthetics in Modern French Philosophy, Carole Talon-Hugon
32. The Concrete and the Abstract in Modern French Philosophy, Giuseppe Bianco
33. The Question of Habit in Modern French Philosophy, Mark Sinclair
34. Philosophical Historiography in Modern French Philosophy, Marie Louise Krogh
35. Reason and Analysis in Modern French Philosophy, Pascal Engel
36. Desire in Modern French Philosophy, Miguel de Beistegui
37. Life: Modern French Philosophy and the Life Sciences, Giuseppe Bianco
38. Transcendence and Immanence in Modern French Philosophy, Laurent Bove
39. Structure in Modern French Philosophy, Patrice Maniglier
40. Literature and Modern French Philosophy, Eleanor Kaufman
41. French Philosophy during the First World War, Martha Hanna
Co-edited with Tilottama Rajan.
The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism... more Co-edited with Tilottama Rajan.
The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism offers a wide-ranging dialogue between theory and German Idealism, joining up the various lines of influence connecting German Idealist and Romantic philosophies in all their variety to post-'68 European philosophies, from Derrida and Deleuze to Žižek and Malabou.
CONTENTS
Part One: Reading the German Idealists after ‘68
1. Reading Kant, Sean Gaston
2. Reading Fichte, F. Scott Scribner
3. Reading Maimon, Daniela Voss
4. Reading Novalis and the Schlegels, Kirill Chepurin
5. Reading Hölderlin, Gabriel Trop
6. Reading Hegel I: Textuality and the Phenomenology, Kristina Mendicino
7. Reading Hegel II: Politics and History, Gregor Moder
8. Reading Schelling, Tyler Tritten
9. Reading Schopenhauer, Joel Faflak
Part Two: Themes and Concepts
10. Systems of Knowledge, Tilottama Rajan
11. Psychoanalysis, Gord Barentsen
12. Art, Anna Ezekiel
13. Nature and Extinction, Thomas Moynihan
14. Language, Oriane Petteni and Daniel Whistler
15. Difference, Arkady Plotnitsky
16. Nothing, Andrew W. Hass
17. Apocalypse, Agata Bielik-Robson
18. The University, Lenka Vráblíková
19. Revolution and Enlightenment, Kyla Bruff
20. Sovereignty and Community, Ian James
Part Three: Contemporary Stakes
21. Felix Culpa, Dialectic and Becoming-Imperceptible, Claire Colebrook
22. Monism and Mistakes, Adrian Johnston
23. Editors’ Conclusions: The Past, Present and Future of the Theory–German Idealism Relation, Tilottama Rajan and Daniel Whistler
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Full contents and papers of the Hemsterhuis-dossier are freely available here: https://symphiloso... more Full contents and papers of the Hemsterhuis-dossier are freely available here: https://symphilosophie.com/issue-3-2021/.
Contents of Dossier:
1. Hemsterhuis in Germany: An Introduction, Daniel Whistler
2. Hemsterhuis and Mediation, Andrew J. Mitchell
3. “Coagulated Spirit”? Hemsterhuis on Matter as Organ and Signature, Carlos Zorrilla Piña
4. “Come le comete intorno al sole”. Il confronto tra gli antichi e i moderni in Hemsterhuis e la sua ricezione, Viviana Galletta
5. Thinking Elasticity in Hemsterhuis, Novalis, and Beyond, Jocelyn Holland
6. Mathesis universalis moralis. Hemsterhuis’s Moral Organ in Novalis’s Philosophy of Science, Santiago J. Napoli
7. The Ethics and Politics of Force in Hemsterhuis, Herder, Goethe, Schiller and Günderrode, Gabriel Trop
8. Theodicy across Scales: Hemsterhuis’s Alexis and the Dawn of Romantic Cosmism, Kirill Chepurin
9. François Hemsterhuis, Letters on Prometheus, translated by Daniel Whistler
10. François Hemsterhuis, Lettre sur les désirs, transcription de Laure Cahen-Maurel
11. Ludwig von Schrautenbach, Two Notices: On Hemsterhuis’s Letter on Desires and Letter on Man and his Relations, translated by Jacob van Sluis and Daniel Whistler
12. Novalis, Hemsterhuis Studies, translated by James D. Reid
Co-edited with Panayiota Vassilopoulou.
This collection offers a rich and diverse philosophical ... more Co-edited with Panayiota Vassilopoulou.
This collection offers a rich and diverse philosophical exploration of the history of contemplation, from the classical period to the twenty-first century. It covers canonical figures including Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Kant, as well as debates in less well-known areas such as classical Chinese and Neoplatonic thought and the role of speculation in nineteenth-century Russian philosophy.
Comprising twenty-two chapters by an international team of contributors, the volume is divided into five parts: (1) Flourishing and Thinking from Homer to Hume; (2) The Thinking of Thinking from Augustine to Gödel; (3) Images and Thinking from Plotinus to Unger; (4) Bodies of Thought and Habits of Thinking from Plato to Irigaray; (5) The Efficacy of Thinking from Sextus to Bataille.
Thought: A Philosophical History is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical thought and contemplation. As such it is a landmark publication for anyone researching and teaching the history of philosophy, and a valuable resource for those studying the subject in related fields such as literature, religion, sociology and the history of ideas.
Contents
Part 1: Flourishing and Thinking from Homer to Hume
1. Thinking Like a Hero, Casey Perin
2. The Primacy of Practice and the Centrality of Outlook: Reflections on Chinese Ethical Traditions, Kwong-loi Shun
3. Thinking, Theorising and Theoria, Stephen Clark
Part 2: The Thinking of Thinking from Augustine to Gödel
4. The Myth of the Mental: an Augustinian critique of Dreyfus and McDowell, Catherine Pickstock
5. Romantic Thinking, Nicholas Halmi
6. Pure and Impure Thinking in Hegel’s Encyclopedia, Markus Gabriel
7. Denkicht—Thicket-Thinking with Walter Benjamin around 1917, Peter Fenves
8. Formal-Syntactical Thinking and the Structure of the World, Paul M. Livingston
Part 3: Images and Thinking from Plotinus to Unger
9. Plotinus: Philosophical Thinking as Self-Creation, Panayiota Vassilopoulou
10. Thinking’s History: Descartes and the Past Tense of Thought, Andrea Gadberry
11. Polyp-Thinking in the Eighteenth Century, Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler
12. The Mythic Imagination as an ‘Experiment in Philosophy’: Erich Unger’s Contribution to the Phenomenology of Thinking, Bruce Rosenstock
Part 4: Bodies of Thought and Habits of Thinking from Plato to Irigaray
13. Thinking about the Unthinkable: Hypothesizing the khôra in the Timaeus, Luc Brisson
14. Thought in Motion: Lucretius’ Materialist Practice, Thomas Nail
15. Thinking Philosophically in the Middle Ages: The Case of the Early Franciscans, Lydia Schumacher
16. The ‘Thought-Work’; Or, The Exuberance of Thinking in Kant and Freud, Stella Sandford
17. Thinking Otherwise with Irigaray and Maximin, Rachel Jones
Part 5: The Efficacy of Thinking from Sextus to Bataille
18. Thinking without Commitment: Two Models, Richard Bett
19. Thinking, Acting, and Acting by Thinking: Marx and Althusser, Gregor Moder
20. ‘Thoughts and purposes have come to me in the shadow I should never have learned in the sunshine’: The Development of Philosophical Thinking in the Literature of Frances E.W. Harper, Catherine Villanueva Gardner
21. The Void of Thought and the Ambivalence of History: Chaadaev, Bakunin, Fedorov, Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet
22. The Destruction of Thought, Gil Anidjar
Co-edited with Agata Bielik-Robson
Interrogating Modernity returns to Hans Blumenberg's epochal ... more Co-edited with Agata Bielik-Robson
Interrogating Modernity returns to Hans Blumenberg's epochal The Legitimacy of the Modern Age as a springboard to interrogate questions of modernity, secularisation, technology and political legitimacy in the fields of political theology, history of ideas, political theory, art theory, history of philosophy, theology and sociology. That is, the twelve essays in this volume return to Blumenberg's work to think once more about how and why we should value the modern. Written by a group of leading international and interdisciplinary researchers, this series of responses to the question of the modern put Blumenberg into dialogue with other twentieth, and twenty-first century theorists, such as Arendt, Bloch, Derrida, Husserl, Jonas, Latour, Voegelin, Weber and many more. The result is a repositioning of his work at the heart of contemporary attempts to make sense of who we are and how we’ve got here.
Contents
Editors' Preface: Blumenberg's Modernity, Agata Bielik-Robson and Daniel Whistler
Part One: Overcoming Gnosticism
1. I Hurt, Therefore I Am: Descartes with Blumenberg (and Job), Agata Bielik-Robson
2. Legitimacy of Nihilism: Blumenberg’s Post-Gnosticism, Elad Lapidot
3. Blumenberg, Latour and the Apocalypse, Willem Styfhals
Part Two: Political Theologies of Modernity
4. The Sovereign Position of the World: Towards a Political Theology of Modernity (after Blumenberg), Joseph Albernaz and Kirill Chepurin
5. Interrogating John Locke and the Propriety of Appropriation with Blumenberg and Voegelin, Lissa McCullough
6. Political Legitimacy and Founding Myths, Zeynep Talay Turner
Part Three: Competing Visions of Modernity
7. Trial and Crisis: Blumenberg and Husserl on the Genesis and Meaning of Modern Science, Robert Buch
8. Infinite Progress and the Burdens of Biography, Charles Turner
9. The Ideal of Optics and the Opacity of Life: Blumenberg on Modernity and Myth, Oriane Petteni
Part Four: Modernity and Method
10. World-Modelling and Cartesian Method: Blumenberg’s Hyperopia, Adi Efal-Lautenschläger
11. Umbesetzung – Reoccupation in Blumenbergian Modernity, Sonja Feger
12. Modernising Blumenberg, Daniel Whistler
Co-edited with Delphine Antoine-Mahut.
L’austère figure de Victor Cousin (1792-1867) ne cesse de... more Co-edited with Delphine Antoine-Mahut.
L’austère figure de Victor Cousin (1792-1867) ne cesse de réapparaître pour rappeler son rôle dans l’institution de la philosophie française. Mais il demeure un illustre inconnu, un « bon mort », lorsqu’on interroge les ressorts philosophiques de son succès. L’objectif de ce volume collectif est d’explorer l’étendard qu’il s’était donné avant de se déclarer spiritualiste : « l’éclectisme ». Qu’en fait-il exactement ? Les études rassemblées montrent l’ambiguïté constitutive d’une méthode philosophique redoutablement efficace : à la fois irénique et guerrière, syncrétique et exclusive. Cousin n’a alors plus rien d’un « bon mort ». Une confrontation avec son spectre devient un passage obligé pour toute réflexion sur la vitalité de l’histoire de la philosophie et de son enseignement.
Contents
Introduction. Un bon mort est un mort mort : vive Victor Cousin !, Delphine Antoine-Mahut et Daniel Whistler
I. L’histoire de l’éclectisme et l’histoire éclectique
1. Le XVIIIe siècle : moment d’une renaissance de l’éclectisme philosophique, Gilles Barroux
2. Commencement, recommencement et frontières de la philosophie
chez Cousin, Ayşe Yuva
3. L’historiographie éclectique de Victor Cousin entre la renaissance orientale et le miracle grec, Renzo Ragghianti
4. Machiavel à Paris : l’historiographie philosophique sur la Renaissance et la dissidence idéologique à l’éclectisme (1829-1843), Mario Meliadò
II. L’éclectisme en France au XIXe siècle
5. Joseph Ferrari, l’insurrection péripatéticienne contre le christianisme, et l’impiété de la Renaissance devenue système par le cartésianisme, Patrice Vermeren
6. Politiques de l’éclectisme en situation de crise. Damiron promoteur d’une école philosophique, Félix Barancy
7. Une saine philosophie pour la médecine. L’accusation d’éclectisme par le Dr Victor-Pierre Renouard (1798-1888), Samuel Lézé
III. L’héritage de l’éclectisme
8. Une French Theory au XIXe siècle. L’éclectisme de Cousin en Grande-Bretagne et aux Etats-Unis d’Amérique, Catherine König-Pralong
9. La construction d’une voix philosophique pour la nation. L’éclectisme au Brésil, Júlio Canhada
10. L’éclectisme philosophique en Nouvelle-Grenade (Colombie). Circulation du discours et usages politiques, Mario Alejandro Molano Vega
11. Le musée de philosophie. Cousin et Malraux, Daniel Whistler
12. Postface. Les dernières heures de Victor Cousin et la scène de la révolution philosophique en France, Pierre-François Moreau et Patrice Vermeren
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Co-edited with Johannes Zachhuber. The full contents and papers are available here: https://www.t... more Co-edited with Johannes Zachhuber. The full contents and papers are available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpt20/80/1-2?nav=tocList.
Contents
1. Foreword, Walter Kasper
2. Editorial Introduction, Daniel Whistler and Johannes Zachhuber
3. Schelling and Protestant Theology, Jan Rohls
4. F.W.J. Schelling and the Rise of Historical Theology, Johannes Zachhuber
5. Immunitary Foreclosures: Schelling and British Idealism, Tilottama Rajan
6. Did Schelling Live on in Catholic Theology? An Examination of his Influence on Catholic Tuebingen, Grant Kaplan
7. Mythology, Essence and Form: Schelling's Jewish Reception in the Nineteenth Century, Paul Franks
8. Schelling's Prehistory in Russia: The Legacy of Enlightenment, Sigrun Bielfeldt
9. Schelling and the New England Mind, Joel Rasmussen
10. Freedom, Sin and the Absoluteness of Christianity: Reflections on the Early Tillich's Schelling-Reception, Christian Danz
11. "The Story Continues...": Schelling and Rosenzweig on Narrative Philosophy, Agata Bielik-Robson
12. Aspects of Schelling Influence on Bulgakov and other thinkers of the Russian Religious Renaissance, Tikhon Vasilyev
13. Schelling and Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology: The Case of Walter Kasper, Antonio Russo
14. The Schelling of Religious Existentialism, Daniel Whistler
From the shadow of the Kantian critique to the Oxford debates over Darwinism that shook the disci... more From the shadow of the Kantian critique to the Oxford debates over Darwinism that shook the discipline to the core, and from the death of God to the rise of new Evangelical movements, 19th-century theology was fundamentally reshaped by both internal struggles and external developments.
This critical history charts this reshaping by focusing on the emerging theological themes of the period that cross authors, disciplines and nations. A team of internationally leading scholars map lines of thought from Romanticism through Hegelianism and positivism, exploring the richness of theology’s interactions with anthropology, art, industry, literature, philosophy, science and society.
Key Features
Takes an interdisciplinary approach to theology, focusing on key developments such as philosophical speculation and positivism, natural selection and social change
Key controversies, often consigned to disparate theological sub-fields, are arranged thematically
Repositions 19th-century theology as a vital series of intellectual experiments at the heart of the intellectual discourse of the era
Contributors
Ruth Barton, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Roland Boer, University of Newcastle, Australia, and Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Joshua Cockayne, University of York, UK.
Susan Curtis, Purdue University, USA.
Benjamin Dawson, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Andrew W. Hass, University of Stirling, UK.
Joseph P. Lawrence, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts, USA.
Gerard Loughlin, Durham University, UK.
Lissa McCullough, California State University Dominguez Hills, USA.
George Pattison, University of Glasgow, UK.
Thomas Pfau, Duke University, USA.
Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope University, UK.
Katie Terezakis, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.
Katya Tolstaya, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Daniel Whistler, University of Liverpool, UK.
Johannes Zachhuber, University of Oxford, UK.
Bennett Zon, Durham University, UK.
Regula Zwahlen, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
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Monographs by Daniel Whistler
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During the first decade of the 19th century, F. W. J. Schelling was involved in 3 distinct controversies with one of his most perceptive and provocative critics, A. C. A. Eschenmayer. The first of these controversies took place in 1801 and focused on the philosophy of nature. Now, Berger and Whistler provide a ground-breaking account of this moment in the history of philosophy. They argue that key Schellingian concepts, such as identity, potency and abstraction, were first forged in his early debate with Eschenmayer. Through a series of translations and commentaries, they show that the 1801 controversy is an essential resource for understanding Schelling’s thought, the philosophy of nature and the origins of absolute idealism.
Additionally, Berger and Whistler demonstrate how the Schelling–Eschenmayer controversy raises important issues for the philosophy of nature today, including questions about the relation between identity and difference and the possibility of explaining sensible qualities in terms of quantity. This ultimately leads to the formulation of the most basic methodological question for the philosophy of nature: must this philosophy be based upon a prior consideration of consciousness – as Eschenmayer insists – or might it simply begin with nature itself? By arguing for the latter position, Schelling challenges us to entertain the possibility that the philosophy of nature is first philosophy.
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Editions and Anthologies by Daniel Whistler
The first English translation of some of Victor Cousin's most important philosophical writings for over 150 years, accompanied by extensive contextual and analytic resources from a team of internationally recognized Cousin scholars. Victor Cousin was a towering philosophical figure of the nineteenth century: no French philosopher since has fully escaped his shadow. This edition of Philosophical Fragments brings together a series of Cousin's most accessible and significant texts to introduce English-language readers to his thought, along with commentaries on his relationship to Cartesianism, his role in the invention of the historiography of philosophy, as well as his lasting institutional legacy. The edition includes some of the founding texts of modern French philosophy, such as Cousin's 1826 Preface to Philosophical Fragments, the 'manifesto' by means of which he relaunched the French spiritualist project and set out his own eclectic project in the history of philosophy; his 1833 Preface to Philosophical Fragments, in which he responds to mounting criticism of his version of spiritualism by setting out definitively his relations to Descartes, eighteenth-century sensualism, German Idealism, and Catholic theology; and a selection of the Fragments themselves, charting the genesis of his philosophy from the 1810s to the 1840s.
CONTENTS
Editors' Preface: Victor Cousin, Eclectic Philosophy and its Legacies
Note on Editions, Abbreviations, and Translations
Part One: Introductions
1. Cousin and French Philosophy, Delphine Antoine-Mahut
2. Cousin and the Politics of Philosophy, Félix Barancy and Sarah Bernard-Granger
3. Cousin and the History of Philosophy, Pierre-François Moreau
4. Cousin and the Eighteenth Century, Lucie Rey
5. Cousin and the Problem of Metaphysics, Daniel Whistler
Part Two: Texts
The Three Prefaces
6. Preface to the 1826 Edition of Philosophical Fragments
7.Preface to the 1833 Edition of Philosophical Fragments
8. Prefatory Note to the 1838 Edition of Philosophical Fragments
1816-1818
9. On the Moral Law and Freedom
10. On the True Meaning of the cogito, ergo sum
11. Attempt at a Classification of Philosophical Questions and Schools
12. On the Fact of Consciousness
13. On the Clear and the Obscure in Knowledge, or On Spontaneity and Reflection
14. On Real Beauty and Ideal Beauty
1826-1830
15. The True Beginning of the History of Philosophy
16. Plato: Language of the Theory of Ideas
17. Plato
18. Prefatory Note to New Philosophical Fragments
19. Preface to the Translation of Tennemann's Manual of the History of Philosophy
20. From Review of Reiffenberg's On Eclecticism
After 1833
21. Introduction to the Posthumous Works of Maine de Biran
22. From Abelard
23. From Foreword to On Pascal's Pensées
24. Foreword to Fragments of Cartesian Philosophy
Appendix: Two Edicts Issued by the Royal Council of Public Education
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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. 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.
Contents:
1. Cousin's and Leroux's Antagonistic Visions of German Idealism, Lucie Rey
2. Becoming Cousin: Eclecticism, Spiritualism and Hegelianism before 1833, Daniel Whistler
3. Ravaisson after Schelling: Purposiveness without Purpose in Genius and Habit, Mark Sinclair
4. Line, Vine, and Grace: Ravaisson’s Spiral and Schelling’s Vortex, Ben Woodard
5. “Naturism” in place of Idealism: Henri Ducrotay de Blainville and Auguste Comte on Naturphilosophie, Laurent Clauzade
6. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and the Reception of German Philosophy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France, Edward Castleton
7. Pantheism and the Dangers of Hegelianism in Nineteenth-Century France, Kirill Chepurin
8. Hegel’s Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century France: Charles Bénard’s Translation and its Reception, Élisabeth Décultot
9. Augusto Vera’s Mystical Conception of Hegelianism, Andrea Bellantone
10. Charles Renouvier, Modern French Philosophy, and the Great Learned Men of Germany, Jeremy Dunham
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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 one, readers will find a number of interpretative frameworks to help them get to grips with this neglected field in the history of ideas. In addition to excerpted translations and a narrative of Hegel’s and Schelling’s fate in France during the early nineteenth century, this volume includes an introduction on transnational reception history, as well as an analytical catalogue of the translations of their work produced in French at this time, of the publications which appropriated or interrogated their philosophical legacy, and of the journals, institutional structures and other mechanisms of dissemination that brought Hegel’s and Schelling’s philosophy into France. The book thus details 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, it aims to contribute to a reversal of 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 as more neglected figures, like Barchou de Penhoën, Bénard, Lèbre, Lerminier, Pictet, and Willm.
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Vol. 3 of The Edinburgh Edition of the Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis.
A complete edition with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries, tracing Hemsterhuis' remarkable influence on the French Enlightenment, German Idealism and German Romanticism.
This final volume in The Edinburgh Edition of the Complete Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis includes the Letter on Atheism, the Letter on Fatalism and the Letter on Optics—all penned as part of his remarkable correspondence with Amalie Gallitzin—as well as the unpublished dialogue, Alexis II. Also included is Hemsterhuis’ philosophical responses to Plato, Spinoza and Diderot, to contemporary political events in the Dutch Republic and to the French Revolution.
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Vol. 2 of The Edinburgh Edition of the Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis
A complete edition of François Hemsterhuis’ widely influential late dialogues, with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries.
This collection translates four of Hemsterhuis’ late dialogues into English for the first time. These writings offer diverse treatments of non-materialist philosophy. 'Sophylus' is concerned with providing the basic epistemological structures that Hemsterhuis believes are compatible with common sense, Socratic inquiry and Newtonian science. 'Aristeaus' is a sustained series of reflections on arguments for the existence of God, concepts of order and chaos in the universe. 'Simon' is closely modelled on Plato’s Symposium in style, structure and content and provides the clearest statement of Hemsterhuis’ late ethics and aesthetics. 'Alexis' – the favourite work of many of the German Romantics – uses contemporary discussions of astronomy and optics to formulate a mythic ode to the role of enthusiasm and feeling in the constitution of wisdom
Two editorial introductions supplement these translations. The first, by Daniel Whistler, considers Hemsterhuis’ relationship with Amalie Gallitzin and how that influenced what he came to call ‘our philosophy’. In the second, Laure Cahen-Maurel examines the role played by Jacobi and others in the transmission of these texts and their influence on Hölderlin’s Hyperion and Novalis’ Hemsterhuis-Studies in particular.
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Vol 1 of the Edinburgh Edition of the Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis
The first ever English translation of François Hemsterhuis’ early series of philosophical letters published during the 1760s and 1770s
This complete edition publishes Hemsterhuis’ 'Letter on an Antique Gemstone', 'Letter on Sculpture', 'Letter on Desires', 'Letter on Man and his Relations' and 'Philosophical Description of the Character of the Late Mr. F. Fagel' chronologically to gradually reveal Hemsterhuis’ complete systematic vision.
These letters are supplemented by three introductions. The first by Peter Sonderen pinpoints the significance of Hemsterhuis’ remarkably influential aesthetics. The second by Jacob van Sluis provides the context to 'Letter on Man and his Relations'. And the third by Gabriel Trop focuses on the importance of these writings in the history of ideas, especially Herder’s translation and ‘Postscript’ to the 'Letter on Desires', Diderot’s commentary on the 'Letter on Man and his Relations' and Goethe’s incorporation of Hemsterhuis’ definition of beauty into his aesthetic reflections.
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Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer (1765-1844) was the 'father of philosophy of nature' owing to his profound influence on German Idealist and Romantic Naturphilosophie. With the recent growth of interest in Idealist and Romantic philosophy of nature in the UK and abroad, the importance of Kielmeyer's work is being increasingly recognised and special attention is being paid to his influence on biology's development as a distinct discipline at the end of the eighteenth century. In this exciting new book, Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler present the first ever English translations of key texts by Kielmeyer, along with contextual and interpretative essays by leading international scholars, who are experts on the philosophy of nature and the formation of the life sciences in the late eighteenth century. The topics they cover include: the laws of nature, the concept of force, the meaning of 'organism', the logic of recapitulation, Kielmeyer and ecology, sexual differentiation in animal life and Kielmeyer's relationship to Kant, Schelling and Hegel. In doing so, they provide a comprehensive English reference to Kielmeyer's historical and contemporary significance.
Contents
One: Editors’ Introduction, Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler
Two: Kielmeyer’s Fame and Fate, Kai Torsten Kanz
Part One: Kielmeyer’s 1793 Speech
Three: On the Relations between Organic Forces in the Series of Different Organisations, and on the Laws and Consequences of these Relations, C. F. Kielmeyer
Part Two: Selected Unpublished Texts by Kielmeyer
Four: On Natural History, C. F. Kielmeyer
Five: Ideas for a Developmental History of the Earth and its Organisations: Letter to Windischmann, 1804, C. F. Kielmeyer
Six: On Kant and German Philosophy of Nature: Letter to Cuvier, 1807, C. F. Kielmeyer
Part Three: Interpretations
Seven: Force and Law in Kielmeyer’s 1793 Speech, Andrew Cooper
Eight: Organic Physics as a Phenomenology of the Organic, Thomas Bach
Nine: The Path of the Great Machine: Kielmeyer’s Economy of Extinction, Lydia Azadpour
Ten: Recapitulation All the Way Down? Philosophical Ontogeny in Kielmeyer and Schelling, Iain Hamilton Grant
Eleven: Kielmeyer and the Cybernetics of the Organic World, Andrea Gambarotto
Twelve: Reproduction, Production and the Earth: The Place of Sex in Kielmeyer’s ‘Economy of the Organic World’, Susanne Lettow
Thirteen: Mechanics beyond the Machine in Kielmeyer and Eschenmayer, Jocelyn Holland
Fourteen: The Logic of Organic Forces: Hegel’s Critique of Kielmeyer, Benjamin Berger
Available here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/kielmeyer-and-the-organic-world-9781350143463/.
F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) stands alongside J.G. Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel as one of the great philosophers of the German idealist tradition. The Schelling Reader introduces students to Schelling's philosophy by guiding them through the first ever English-language anthology of his key texts-an anthology which showcases the vast array of his interests and concerns (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of nature, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of religion and mythology, and political philosophy). The reader includes the most important passages from all of Schelling's major works as well as lesser-known yet illuminating lectures and essays, revealing a philosopher rigorously and boldly grappling with some of the most difficult philosophical problems for over six decades, and constantly modifying and correcting his earlier thought in light of new insights.
Schelling's evolving philosophies have often presented formidable challenges to the teaching of his thought. For the first time, The Schelling Reader arranges readings from his work thematically, so as to bring to the fore the basic continuity in his trajectory, as well as the varied ways he tackles perennial problems. Each of the twelve chapters includes sustained readings that span the whole of Schelling's career, along with explanatory notes and an editorial introduction that introduces the main themes, arguments, and questions at stake in the text. The Editors' Introduction to the volume as a whole also provides important details on the context of Schelling's life and work to help students effectively engage with the material.
Contents
Part One: Metaphysics
1. The Unconditioned
2. Identity and Difference
3. Nature
4. Time, Space and the Categories
Part Two: Philosophical Methods
5. Intuition, Construction and Recollection
6. Reason and Experience
7. System
8. History of Philosophy
Part Three: The Ideal World
9. Freedom
10. Art and Mythology
11. Religion
12. Politics
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Collections and Special Issues by Daniel Whistler
French philosophy is an internationally celebrated national philosophical tradition, and this Oxford Handbook offers a comprehensive approach to its history since 1800. The Handbook features essays written by renowned international specialists, illuminating key movements and positions, themes and thinkers in nineteenth-, twentieth- and even twenty-first-century French philosophy. The volume takes into account developments in recent historical scholarship by broadening the notion of Modern French Philosophy in two ways. Whereas recent approaches in the field have often ignored early nineteenth-century developments, this volume offers comprehensive treatment of French thought of this period in order to grasp better later developments. Moreover, the volume extends the canon at the other end of the period of Modern French Philosophy by including work on philosophers who have come to prominence only in the last ten or twenty years. The volume takes 'French philosophy' in a broad sense to include all philosophy carried out in France over the last 200 years, and it illuminates the institutional and cultural background of this national philosophical tradition in such a way as to provide a fuller and more comprehensive understanding of its unity and of its more famous moments in the twentieth century.
CONTENTS
1. Editors' Introduction, Mark Sinclair and Daniel Whistler
Part I: Movements and Positions
2. Maine de Biran and the Legacy of Ideology, Anne Dévarieux
3. Eclecticism and its Discontents, Delphine Antoine-Mahut
4. Positivisms and Spiritualisms: Quarrels and Appropriations, Annie Petit
5. Vacherot and his Circle: Philosophy and Religion in the Pantheism Controversy, Ayse Yuva
6. Spiritualism as a Philosophy of Culture: Ravaisson and Boutroux, Tullio Viola
7. Charles Renouvier on the Necessary Conditions of the Scientific Mind: Passion, Habit, and Will, Jeremy Dunham
8. Bergson after Boutroux on Freedom and Contingency, Mark Sinclair
9. Jean-Marie Guyau on Morality and Life, Keith Ansell-Pearson and Federico Testa
10. Léon Brunschwicg and the Development of French Neo-Kantianism, Pietro Terzi
11. Simone Weil's Practical Philosophy, Philip Goodchild
12. Early Existentialisms, Kate Kirkpatrick
13. Historical Epistemology: A Broader and More Complex View, Cristina Chimisso
14. Merleau-Ponty: A Bergsonian in the Making, Donald Landes
15. Frantz Fanon, Philosophising (in) the Colonial Situation, Lucie K. Mercier
16. Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch: Sociality and the Second-Person, Michael L. Morgan
17. Foucault and the Task of Philosophy, Johanna Oksala
18. Ethics and Ontology in French Hermeneutics: The Case of Ricœur, Gaëlle Fiasse
19. Deleuze or Lyotard?, Frédéric Fruteau de Laclos
20. French Phenomenology after 1961, Françoise Dastur
21. Irigaray and Feminism in French Philosophy after Beauvoir, Rachel Jones
22. Deconstruction and Forgiveness: The Final Phase of Derrida's Thought, Leonard Lawlor
23. Badiou's Being and Event Trilogy and the Pas de Deux with Deleuze, Sean Bowden and Caitlyn Lesiuk
24. The Non-Philosophy of François Laruelle, Rocco Gangle
Part II: Influences
25. Descartes in Modern French Philosophy, Andrea Gadberry
26. Spinoza in Modern French Philosophy, Knox Peden
27. Hegel in Modern French Philosophy, Andrea Bellantone
28. Marx in Modern French Philosophy, Frank Fischbach
29. Heidegger in Modern French Philosophy, François Raffoul
30. French Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Barry Dainton
Part III: Themes
31. Aesthetics in Modern French Philosophy, Carole Talon-Hugon
32. The Concrete and the Abstract in Modern French Philosophy, Giuseppe Bianco
33. The Question of Habit in Modern French Philosophy, Mark Sinclair
34. Philosophical Historiography in Modern French Philosophy, Marie Louise Krogh
35. Reason and Analysis in Modern French Philosophy, Pascal Engel
36. Desire in Modern French Philosophy, Miguel de Beistegui
37. Life: Modern French Philosophy and the Life Sciences, Giuseppe Bianco
38. Transcendence and Immanence in Modern French Philosophy, Laurent Bove
39. Structure in Modern French Philosophy, Patrice Maniglier
40. Literature and Modern French Philosophy, Eleanor Kaufman
41. French Philosophy during the First World War, Martha Hanna
The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism offers a wide-ranging dialogue between theory and German Idealism, joining up the various lines of influence connecting German Idealist and Romantic philosophies in all their variety to post-'68 European philosophies, from Derrida and Deleuze to Žižek and Malabou.
CONTENTS
Part One: Reading the German Idealists after ‘68
1. Reading Kant, Sean Gaston
2. Reading Fichte, F. Scott Scribner
3. Reading Maimon, Daniela Voss
4. Reading Novalis and the Schlegels, Kirill Chepurin
5. Reading Hölderlin, Gabriel Trop
6. Reading Hegel I: Textuality and the Phenomenology, Kristina Mendicino
7. Reading Hegel II: Politics and History, Gregor Moder
8. Reading Schelling, Tyler Tritten
9. Reading Schopenhauer, Joel Faflak
Part Two: Themes and Concepts
10. Systems of Knowledge, Tilottama Rajan
11. Psychoanalysis, Gord Barentsen
12. Art, Anna Ezekiel
13. Nature and Extinction, Thomas Moynihan
14. Language, Oriane Petteni and Daniel Whistler
15. Difference, Arkady Plotnitsky
16. Nothing, Andrew W. Hass
17. Apocalypse, Agata Bielik-Robson
18. The University, Lenka Vráblíková
19. Revolution and Enlightenment, Kyla Bruff
20. Sovereignty and Community, Ian James
Part Three: Contemporary Stakes
21. Felix Culpa, Dialectic and Becoming-Imperceptible, Claire Colebrook
22. Monism and Mistakes, Adrian Johnston
23. Editors’ Conclusions: The Past, Present and Future of the Theory–German Idealism Relation, Tilottama Rajan and Daniel Whistler
Contents of Dossier:
1. Hemsterhuis in Germany: An Introduction, Daniel Whistler
2. Hemsterhuis and Mediation, Andrew J. Mitchell
3. “Coagulated Spirit”? Hemsterhuis on Matter as Organ and Signature, Carlos Zorrilla Piña
4. “Come le comete intorno al sole”. Il confronto tra gli antichi e i moderni in Hemsterhuis e la sua ricezione, Viviana Galletta
5. Thinking Elasticity in Hemsterhuis, Novalis, and Beyond, Jocelyn Holland
6. Mathesis universalis moralis. Hemsterhuis’s Moral Organ in Novalis’s Philosophy of Science, Santiago J. Napoli
7. The Ethics and Politics of Force in Hemsterhuis, Herder, Goethe, Schiller and Günderrode, Gabriel Trop
8. Theodicy across Scales: Hemsterhuis’s Alexis and the Dawn of Romantic Cosmism, Kirill Chepurin
9. François Hemsterhuis, Letters on Prometheus, translated by Daniel Whistler
10. François Hemsterhuis, Lettre sur les désirs, transcription de Laure Cahen-Maurel
11. Ludwig von Schrautenbach, Two Notices: On Hemsterhuis’s Letter on Desires and Letter on Man and his Relations, translated by Jacob van Sluis and Daniel Whistler
12. Novalis, Hemsterhuis Studies, translated by James D. Reid
This collection offers a rich and diverse philosophical exploration of the history of contemplation, from the classical period to the twenty-first century. It covers canonical figures including Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Kant, as well as debates in less well-known areas such as classical Chinese and Neoplatonic thought and the role of speculation in nineteenth-century Russian philosophy.
Comprising twenty-two chapters by an international team of contributors, the volume is divided into five parts: (1) Flourishing and Thinking from Homer to Hume; (2) The Thinking of Thinking from Augustine to Gödel; (3) Images and Thinking from Plotinus to Unger; (4) Bodies of Thought and Habits of Thinking from Plato to Irigaray; (5) The Efficacy of Thinking from Sextus to Bataille.
Thought: A Philosophical History is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical thought and contemplation. As such it is a landmark publication for anyone researching and teaching the history of philosophy, and a valuable resource for those studying the subject in related fields such as literature, religion, sociology and the history of ideas.
Contents
Part 1: Flourishing and Thinking from Homer to Hume
1. Thinking Like a Hero, Casey Perin
2. The Primacy of Practice and the Centrality of Outlook: Reflections on Chinese Ethical Traditions, Kwong-loi Shun
3. Thinking, Theorising and Theoria, Stephen Clark
Part 2: The Thinking of Thinking from Augustine to Gödel
4. The Myth of the Mental: an Augustinian critique of Dreyfus and McDowell, Catherine Pickstock
5. Romantic Thinking, Nicholas Halmi
6. Pure and Impure Thinking in Hegel’s Encyclopedia, Markus Gabriel
7. Denkicht—Thicket-Thinking with Walter Benjamin around 1917, Peter Fenves
8. Formal-Syntactical Thinking and the Structure of the World, Paul M. Livingston
Part 3: Images and Thinking from Plotinus to Unger
9. Plotinus: Philosophical Thinking as Self-Creation, Panayiota Vassilopoulou
10. Thinking’s History: Descartes and the Past Tense of Thought, Andrea Gadberry
11. Polyp-Thinking in the Eighteenth Century, Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler
12. The Mythic Imagination as an ‘Experiment in Philosophy’: Erich Unger’s Contribution to the Phenomenology of Thinking, Bruce Rosenstock
Part 4: Bodies of Thought and Habits of Thinking from Plato to Irigaray
13. Thinking about the Unthinkable: Hypothesizing the khôra in the Timaeus, Luc Brisson
14. Thought in Motion: Lucretius’ Materialist Practice, Thomas Nail
15. Thinking Philosophically in the Middle Ages: The Case of the Early Franciscans, Lydia Schumacher
16. The ‘Thought-Work’; Or, The Exuberance of Thinking in Kant and Freud, Stella Sandford
17. Thinking Otherwise with Irigaray and Maximin, Rachel Jones
Part 5: The Efficacy of Thinking from Sextus to Bataille
18. Thinking without Commitment: Two Models, Richard Bett
19. Thinking, Acting, and Acting by Thinking: Marx and Althusser, Gregor Moder
20. ‘Thoughts and purposes have come to me in the shadow I should never have learned in the sunshine’: The Development of Philosophical Thinking in the Literature of Frances E.W. Harper, Catherine Villanueva Gardner
21. The Void of Thought and the Ambivalence of History: Chaadaev, Bakunin, Fedorov, Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet
22. The Destruction of Thought, Gil Anidjar
Interrogating Modernity returns to Hans Blumenberg's epochal The Legitimacy of the Modern Age as a springboard to interrogate questions of modernity, secularisation, technology and political legitimacy in the fields of political theology, history of ideas, political theory, art theory, history of philosophy, theology and sociology. That is, the twelve essays in this volume return to Blumenberg's work to think once more about how and why we should value the modern. Written by a group of leading international and interdisciplinary researchers, this series of responses to the question of the modern put Blumenberg into dialogue with other twentieth, and twenty-first century theorists, such as Arendt, Bloch, Derrida, Husserl, Jonas, Latour, Voegelin, Weber and many more. The result is a repositioning of his work at the heart of contemporary attempts to make sense of who we are and how we’ve got here.
Contents
Editors' Preface: Blumenberg's Modernity, Agata Bielik-Robson and Daniel Whistler
Part One: Overcoming Gnosticism
1. I Hurt, Therefore I Am: Descartes with Blumenberg (and Job), Agata Bielik-Robson
2. Legitimacy of Nihilism: Blumenberg’s Post-Gnosticism, Elad Lapidot
3. Blumenberg, Latour and the Apocalypse, Willem Styfhals
Part Two: Political Theologies of Modernity
4. The Sovereign Position of the World: Towards a Political Theology of Modernity (after Blumenberg), Joseph Albernaz and Kirill Chepurin
5. Interrogating John Locke and the Propriety of Appropriation with Blumenberg and Voegelin, Lissa McCullough
6. Political Legitimacy and Founding Myths, Zeynep Talay Turner
Part Three: Competing Visions of Modernity
7. Trial and Crisis: Blumenberg and Husserl on the Genesis and Meaning of Modern Science, Robert Buch
8. Infinite Progress and the Burdens of Biography, Charles Turner
9. The Ideal of Optics and the Opacity of Life: Blumenberg on Modernity and Myth, Oriane Petteni
Part Four: Modernity and Method
10. World-Modelling and Cartesian Method: Blumenberg’s Hyperopia, Adi Efal-Lautenschläger
11. Umbesetzung – Reoccupation in Blumenbergian Modernity, Sonja Feger
12. Modernising Blumenberg, Daniel Whistler
L’austère figure de Victor Cousin (1792-1867) ne cesse de réapparaître pour rappeler son rôle dans l’institution de la philosophie française. Mais il demeure un illustre inconnu, un « bon mort », lorsqu’on interroge les ressorts philosophiques de son succès. L’objectif de ce volume collectif est d’explorer l’étendard qu’il s’était donné avant de se déclarer spiritualiste : « l’éclectisme ». Qu’en fait-il exactement ? Les études rassemblées montrent l’ambiguïté constitutive d’une méthode philosophique redoutablement efficace : à la fois irénique et guerrière, syncrétique et exclusive. Cousin n’a alors plus rien d’un « bon mort ». Une confrontation avec son spectre devient un passage obligé pour toute réflexion sur la vitalité de l’histoire de la philosophie et de son enseignement.
Contents
Introduction. Un bon mort est un mort mort : vive Victor Cousin !, Delphine Antoine-Mahut et Daniel Whistler
I. L’histoire de l’éclectisme et l’histoire éclectique
1. Le XVIIIe siècle : moment d’une renaissance de l’éclectisme philosophique, Gilles Barroux
2. Commencement, recommencement et frontières de la philosophie
chez Cousin, Ayşe Yuva
3. L’historiographie éclectique de Victor Cousin entre la renaissance orientale et le miracle grec, Renzo Ragghianti
4. Machiavel à Paris : l’historiographie philosophique sur la Renaissance et la dissidence idéologique à l’éclectisme (1829-1843), Mario Meliadò
II. L’éclectisme en France au XIXe siècle
5. Joseph Ferrari, l’insurrection péripatéticienne contre le christianisme, et l’impiété de la Renaissance devenue système par le cartésianisme, Patrice Vermeren
6. Politiques de l’éclectisme en situation de crise. Damiron promoteur d’une école philosophique, Félix Barancy
7. Une saine philosophie pour la médecine. L’accusation d’éclectisme par le Dr Victor-Pierre Renouard (1798-1888), Samuel Lézé
III. L’héritage de l’éclectisme
8. Une French Theory au XIXe siècle. L’éclectisme de Cousin en Grande-Bretagne et aux Etats-Unis d’Amérique, Catherine König-Pralong
9. La construction d’une voix philosophique pour la nation. L’éclectisme au Brésil, Júlio Canhada
10. L’éclectisme philosophique en Nouvelle-Grenade (Colombie). Circulation du discours et usages politiques, Mario Alejandro Molano Vega
11. Le musée de philosophie. Cousin et Malraux, Daniel Whistler
12. Postface. Les dernières heures de Victor Cousin et la scène de la révolution philosophique en France, Pierre-François Moreau et Patrice Vermeren
Contents
1. Foreword, Walter Kasper
2. Editorial Introduction, Daniel Whistler and Johannes Zachhuber
3. Schelling and Protestant Theology, Jan Rohls
4. F.W.J. Schelling and the Rise of Historical Theology, Johannes Zachhuber
5. Immunitary Foreclosures: Schelling and British Idealism, Tilottama Rajan
6. Did Schelling Live on in Catholic Theology? An Examination of his Influence on Catholic Tuebingen, Grant Kaplan
7. Mythology, Essence and Form: Schelling's Jewish Reception in the Nineteenth Century, Paul Franks
8. Schelling's Prehistory in Russia: The Legacy of Enlightenment, Sigrun Bielfeldt
9. Schelling and the New England Mind, Joel Rasmussen
10. Freedom, Sin and the Absoluteness of Christianity: Reflections on the Early Tillich's Schelling-Reception, Christian Danz
11. "The Story Continues...": Schelling and Rosenzweig on Narrative Philosophy, Agata Bielik-Robson
12. Aspects of Schelling Influence on Bulgakov and other thinkers of the Russian Religious Renaissance, Tikhon Vasilyev
13. Schelling and Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology: The Case of Walter Kasper, Antonio Russo
14. The Schelling of Religious Existentialism, Daniel Whistler
This critical history charts this reshaping by focusing on the emerging theological themes of the period that cross authors, disciplines and nations. A team of internationally leading scholars map lines of thought from Romanticism through Hegelianism and positivism, exploring the richness of theology’s interactions with anthropology, art, industry, literature, philosophy, science and society.
Key Features
Takes an interdisciplinary approach to theology, focusing on key developments such as philosophical speculation and positivism, natural selection and social change
Key controversies, often consigned to disparate theological sub-fields, are arranged thematically
Repositions 19th-century theology as a vital series of intellectual experiments at the heart of the intellectual discourse of the era
Contributors
Ruth Barton, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Roland Boer, University of Newcastle, Australia, and Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Joshua Cockayne, University of York, UK.
Susan Curtis, Purdue University, USA.
Benjamin Dawson, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Andrew W. Hass, University of Stirling, UK.
Joseph P. Lawrence, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts, USA.
Gerard Loughlin, Durham University, UK.
Lissa McCullough, California State University Dominguez Hills, USA.
George Pattison, University of Glasgow, UK.
Thomas Pfau, Duke University, USA.
Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope University, UK.
Katie Terezakis, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.
Katya Tolstaya, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Daniel Whistler, University of Liverpool, UK.
Johannes Zachhuber, University of Oxford, UK.
Bennett Zon, Durham University, UK.
Regula Zwahlen, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
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During the first decade of the 19th century, F. W. J. Schelling was involved in 3 distinct controversies with one of his most perceptive and provocative critics, A. C. A. Eschenmayer. The first of these controversies took place in 1801 and focused on the philosophy of nature. Now, Berger and Whistler provide a ground-breaking account of this moment in the history of philosophy. They argue that key Schellingian concepts, such as identity, potency and abstraction, were first forged in his early debate with Eschenmayer. Through a series of translations and commentaries, they show that the 1801 controversy is an essential resource for understanding Schelling’s thought, the philosophy of nature and the origins of absolute idealism.
Additionally, Berger and Whistler demonstrate how the Schelling–Eschenmayer controversy raises important issues for the philosophy of nature today, including questions about the relation between identity and difference and the possibility of explaining sensible qualities in terms of quantity. This ultimately leads to the formulation of the most basic methodological question for the philosophy of nature: must this philosophy be based upon a prior consideration of consciousness – as Eschenmayer insists – or might it simply begin with nature itself? By arguing for the latter position, Schelling challenges us to entertain the possibility that the philosophy of nature is first philosophy.
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The first English translation of some of Victor Cousin's most important philosophical writings for over 150 years, accompanied by extensive contextual and analytic resources from a team of internationally recognized Cousin scholars. Victor Cousin was a towering philosophical figure of the nineteenth century: no French philosopher since has fully escaped his shadow. This edition of Philosophical Fragments brings together a series of Cousin's most accessible and significant texts to introduce English-language readers to his thought, along with commentaries on his relationship to Cartesianism, his role in the invention of the historiography of philosophy, as well as his lasting institutional legacy. The edition includes some of the founding texts of modern French philosophy, such as Cousin's 1826 Preface to Philosophical Fragments, the 'manifesto' by means of which he relaunched the French spiritualist project and set out his own eclectic project in the history of philosophy; his 1833 Preface to Philosophical Fragments, in which he responds to mounting criticism of his version of spiritualism by setting out definitively his relations to Descartes, eighteenth-century sensualism, German Idealism, and Catholic theology; and a selection of the Fragments themselves, charting the genesis of his philosophy from the 1810s to the 1840s.
CONTENTS
Editors' Preface: Victor Cousin, Eclectic Philosophy and its Legacies
Note on Editions, Abbreviations, and Translations
Part One: Introductions
1. Cousin and French Philosophy, Delphine Antoine-Mahut
2. Cousin and the Politics of Philosophy, Félix Barancy and Sarah Bernard-Granger
3. Cousin and the History of Philosophy, Pierre-François Moreau
4. Cousin and the Eighteenth Century, Lucie Rey
5. Cousin and the Problem of Metaphysics, Daniel Whistler
Part Two: Texts
The Three Prefaces
6. Preface to the 1826 Edition of Philosophical Fragments
7.Preface to the 1833 Edition of Philosophical Fragments
8. Prefatory Note to the 1838 Edition of Philosophical Fragments
1816-1818
9. On the Moral Law and Freedom
10. On the True Meaning of the cogito, ergo sum
11. Attempt at a Classification of Philosophical Questions and Schools
12. On the Fact of Consciousness
13. On the Clear and the Obscure in Knowledge, or On Spontaneity and Reflection
14. On Real Beauty and Ideal Beauty
1826-1830
15. The True Beginning of the History of Philosophy
16. Plato: Language of the Theory of Ideas
17. Plato
18. Prefatory Note to New Philosophical Fragments
19. Preface to the Translation of Tennemann's Manual of the History of Philosophy
20. From Review of Reiffenberg's On Eclecticism
After 1833
21. Introduction to the Posthumous Works of Maine de Biran
22. From Abelard
23. From Foreword to On Pascal's Pensées
24. Foreword to Fragments of Cartesian Philosophy
Appendix: Two Edicts Issued by the Royal Council of Public Education
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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. 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.
Contents:
1. Cousin's and Leroux's Antagonistic Visions of German Idealism, Lucie Rey
2. Becoming Cousin: Eclecticism, Spiritualism and Hegelianism before 1833, Daniel Whistler
3. Ravaisson after Schelling: Purposiveness without Purpose in Genius and Habit, Mark Sinclair
4. Line, Vine, and Grace: Ravaisson’s Spiral and Schelling’s Vortex, Ben Woodard
5. “Naturism” in place of Idealism: Henri Ducrotay de Blainville and Auguste Comte on Naturphilosophie, Laurent Clauzade
6. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and the Reception of German Philosophy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France, Edward Castleton
7. Pantheism and the Dangers of Hegelianism in Nineteenth-Century France, Kirill Chepurin
8. Hegel’s Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century France: Charles Bénard’s Translation and its Reception, Élisabeth Décultot
9. Augusto Vera’s Mystical Conception of Hegelianism, Andrea Bellantone
10. Charles Renouvier, Modern French Philosophy, and the Great Learned Men of Germany, Jeremy Dunham
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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 one, readers will find a number of interpretative frameworks to help them get to grips with this neglected field in the history of ideas. In addition to excerpted translations and a narrative of Hegel’s and Schelling’s fate in France during the early nineteenth century, this volume includes an introduction on transnational reception history, as well as an analytical catalogue of the translations of their work produced in French at this time, of the publications which appropriated or interrogated their philosophical legacy, and of the journals, institutional structures and other mechanisms of dissemination that brought Hegel’s and Schelling’s philosophy into France. The book thus details 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, it aims to contribute to a reversal of 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 as more neglected figures, like Barchou de Penhoën, Bénard, Lèbre, Lerminier, Pictet, and Willm.
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Vol. 3 of The Edinburgh Edition of the Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis.
A complete edition with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries, tracing Hemsterhuis' remarkable influence on the French Enlightenment, German Idealism and German Romanticism.
This final volume in The Edinburgh Edition of the Complete Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis includes the Letter on Atheism, the Letter on Fatalism and the Letter on Optics—all penned as part of his remarkable correspondence with Amalie Gallitzin—as well as the unpublished dialogue, Alexis II. Also included is Hemsterhuis’ philosophical responses to Plato, Spinoza and Diderot, to contemporary political events in the Dutch Republic and to the French Revolution.
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Vol. 2 of The Edinburgh Edition of the Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis
A complete edition of François Hemsterhuis’ widely influential late dialogues, with full scholarly apparatus and commentaries.
This collection translates four of Hemsterhuis’ late dialogues into English for the first time. These writings offer diverse treatments of non-materialist philosophy. 'Sophylus' is concerned with providing the basic epistemological structures that Hemsterhuis believes are compatible with common sense, Socratic inquiry and Newtonian science. 'Aristeaus' is a sustained series of reflections on arguments for the existence of God, concepts of order and chaos in the universe. 'Simon' is closely modelled on Plato’s Symposium in style, structure and content and provides the clearest statement of Hemsterhuis’ late ethics and aesthetics. 'Alexis' – the favourite work of many of the German Romantics – uses contemporary discussions of astronomy and optics to formulate a mythic ode to the role of enthusiasm and feeling in the constitution of wisdom
Two editorial introductions supplement these translations. The first, by Daniel Whistler, considers Hemsterhuis’ relationship with Amalie Gallitzin and how that influenced what he came to call ‘our philosophy’. In the second, Laure Cahen-Maurel examines the role played by Jacobi and others in the transmission of these texts and their influence on Hölderlin’s Hyperion and Novalis’ Hemsterhuis-Studies in particular.
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Vol 1 of the Edinburgh Edition of the Philosophical Works of François Hemsterhuis
The first ever English translation of François Hemsterhuis’ early series of philosophical letters published during the 1760s and 1770s
This complete edition publishes Hemsterhuis’ 'Letter on an Antique Gemstone', 'Letter on Sculpture', 'Letter on Desires', 'Letter on Man and his Relations' and 'Philosophical Description of the Character of the Late Mr. F. Fagel' chronologically to gradually reveal Hemsterhuis’ complete systematic vision.
These letters are supplemented by three introductions. The first by Peter Sonderen pinpoints the significance of Hemsterhuis’ remarkably influential aesthetics. The second by Jacob van Sluis provides the context to 'Letter on Man and his Relations'. And the third by Gabriel Trop focuses on the importance of these writings in the history of ideas, especially Herder’s translation and ‘Postscript’ to the 'Letter on Desires', Diderot’s commentary on the 'Letter on Man and his Relations' and Goethe’s incorporation of Hemsterhuis’ definition of beauty into his aesthetic reflections.
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Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer (1765-1844) was the 'father of philosophy of nature' owing to his profound influence on German Idealist and Romantic Naturphilosophie. With the recent growth of interest in Idealist and Romantic philosophy of nature in the UK and abroad, the importance of Kielmeyer's work is being increasingly recognised and special attention is being paid to his influence on biology's development as a distinct discipline at the end of the eighteenth century. In this exciting new book, Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler present the first ever English translations of key texts by Kielmeyer, along with contextual and interpretative essays by leading international scholars, who are experts on the philosophy of nature and the formation of the life sciences in the late eighteenth century. The topics they cover include: the laws of nature, the concept of force, the meaning of 'organism', the logic of recapitulation, Kielmeyer and ecology, sexual differentiation in animal life and Kielmeyer's relationship to Kant, Schelling and Hegel. In doing so, they provide a comprehensive English reference to Kielmeyer's historical and contemporary significance.
Contents
One: Editors’ Introduction, Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler
Two: Kielmeyer’s Fame and Fate, Kai Torsten Kanz
Part One: Kielmeyer’s 1793 Speech
Three: On the Relations between Organic Forces in the Series of Different Organisations, and on the Laws and Consequences of these Relations, C. F. Kielmeyer
Part Two: Selected Unpublished Texts by Kielmeyer
Four: On Natural History, C. F. Kielmeyer
Five: Ideas for a Developmental History of the Earth and its Organisations: Letter to Windischmann, 1804, C. F. Kielmeyer
Six: On Kant and German Philosophy of Nature: Letter to Cuvier, 1807, C. F. Kielmeyer
Part Three: Interpretations
Seven: Force and Law in Kielmeyer’s 1793 Speech, Andrew Cooper
Eight: Organic Physics as a Phenomenology of the Organic, Thomas Bach
Nine: The Path of the Great Machine: Kielmeyer’s Economy of Extinction, Lydia Azadpour
Ten: Recapitulation All the Way Down? Philosophical Ontogeny in Kielmeyer and Schelling, Iain Hamilton Grant
Eleven: Kielmeyer and the Cybernetics of the Organic World, Andrea Gambarotto
Twelve: Reproduction, Production and the Earth: The Place of Sex in Kielmeyer’s ‘Economy of the Organic World’, Susanne Lettow
Thirteen: Mechanics beyond the Machine in Kielmeyer and Eschenmayer, Jocelyn Holland
Fourteen: The Logic of Organic Forces: Hegel’s Critique of Kielmeyer, Benjamin Berger
Available here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/kielmeyer-and-the-organic-world-9781350143463/.
F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) stands alongside J.G. Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel as one of the great philosophers of the German idealist tradition. The Schelling Reader introduces students to Schelling's philosophy by guiding them through the first ever English-language anthology of his key texts-an anthology which showcases the vast array of his interests and concerns (metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of nature, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of religion and mythology, and political philosophy). The reader includes the most important passages from all of Schelling's major works as well as lesser-known yet illuminating lectures and essays, revealing a philosopher rigorously and boldly grappling with some of the most difficult philosophical problems for over six decades, and constantly modifying and correcting his earlier thought in light of new insights.
Schelling's evolving philosophies have often presented formidable challenges to the teaching of his thought. For the first time, The Schelling Reader arranges readings from his work thematically, so as to bring to the fore the basic continuity in his trajectory, as well as the varied ways he tackles perennial problems. Each of the twelve chapters includes sustained readings that span the whole of Schelling's career, along with explanatory notes and an editorial introduction that introduces the main themes, arguments, and questions at stake in the text. The Editors' Introduction to the volume as a whole also provides important details on the context of Schelling's life and work to help students effectively engage with the material.
Contents
Part One: Metaphysics
1. The Unconditioned
2. Identity and Difference
3. Nature
4. Time, Space and the Categories
Part Two: Philosophical Methods
5. Intuition, Construction and Recollection
6. Reason and Experience
7. System
8. History of Philosophy
Part Three: The Ideal World
9. Freedom
10. Art and Mythology
11. Religion
12. Politics
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French philosophy is an internationally celebrated national philosophical tradition, and this Oxford Handbook offers a comprehensive approach to its history since 1800. The Handbook features essays written by renowned international specialists, illuminating key movements and positions, themes and thinkers in nineteenth-, twentieth- and even twenty-first-century French philosophy. The volume takes into account developments in recent historical scholarship by broadening the notion of Modern French Philosophy in two ways. Whereas recent approaches in the field have often ignored early nineteenth-century developments, this volume offers comprehensive treatment of French thought of this period in order to grasp better later developments. Moreover, the volume extends the canon at the other end of the period of Modern French Philosophy by including work on philosophers who have come to prominence only in the last ten or twenty years. The volume takes 'French philosophy' in a broad sense to include all philosophy carried out in France over the last 200 years, and it illuminates the institutional and cultural background of this national philosophical tradition in such a way as to provide a fuller and more comprehensive understanding of its unity and of its more famous moments in the twentieth century.
CONTENTS
1. Editors' Introduction, Mark Sinclair and Daniel Whistler
Part I: Movements and Positions
2. Maine de Biran and the Legacy of Ideology, Anne Dévarieux
3. Eclecticism and its Discontents, Delphine Antoine-Mahut
4. Positivisms and Spiritualisms: Quarrels and Appropriations, Annie Petit
5. Vacherot and his Circle: Philosophy and Religion in the Pantheism Controversy, Ayse Yuva
6. Spiritualism as a Philosophy of Culture: Ravaisson and Boutroux, Tullio Viola
7. Charles Renouvier on the Necessary Conditions of the Scientific Mind: Passion, Habit, and Will, Jeremy Dunham
8. Bergson after Boutroux on Freedom and Contingency, Mark Sinclair
9. Jean-Marie Guyau on Morality and Life, Keith Ansell-Pearson and Federico Testa
10. Léon Brunschwicg and the Development of French Neo-Kantianism, Pietro Terzi
11. Simone Weil's Practical Philosophy, Philip Goodchild
12. Early Existentialisms, Kate Kirkpatrick
13. Historical Epistemology: A Broader and More Complex View, Cristina Chimisso
14. Merleau-Ponty: A Bergsonian in the Making, Donald Landes
15. Frantz Fanon, Philosophising (in) the Colonial Situation, Lucie K. Mercier
16. Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch: Sociality and the Second-Person, Michael L. Morgan
17. Foucault and the Task of Philosophy, Johanna Oksala
18. Ethics and Ontology in French Hermeneutics: The Case of Ricœur, Gaëlle Fiasse
19. Deleuze or Lyotard?, Frédéric Fruteau de Laclos
20. French Phenomenology after 1961, Françoise Dastur
21. Irigaray and Feminism in French Philosophy after Beauvoir, Rachel Jones
22. Deconstruction and Forgiveness: The Final Phase of Derrida's Thought, Leonard Lawlor
23. Badiou's Being and Event Trilogy and the Pas de Deux with Deleuze, Sean Bowden and Caitlyn Lesiuk
24. The Non-Philosophy of François Laruelle, Rocco Gangle
Part II: Influences
25. Descartes in Modern French Philosophy, Andrea Gadberry
26. Spinoza in Modern French Philosophy, Knox Peden
27. Hegel in Modern French Philosophy, Andrea Bellantone
28. Marx in Modern French Philosophy, Frank Fischbach
29. Heidegger in Modern French Philosophy, François Raffoul
30. French Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Barry Dainton
Part III: Themes
31. Aesthetics in Modern French Philosophy, Carole Talon-Hugon
32. The Concrete and the Abstract in Modern French Philosophy, Giuseppe Bianco
33. The Question of Habit in Modern French Philosophy, Mark Sinclair
34. Philosophical Historiography in Modern French Philosophy, Marie Louise Krogh
35. Reason and Analysis in Modern French Philosophy, Pascal Engel
36. Desire in Modern French Philosophy, Miguel de Beistegui
37. Life: Modern French Philosophy and the Life Sciences, Giuseppe Bianco
38. Transcendence and Immanence in Modern French Philosophy, Laurent Bove
39. Structure in Modern French Philosophy, Patrice Maniglier
40. Literature and Modern French Philosophy, Eleanor Kaufman
41. French Philosophy during the First World War, Martha Hanna
The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism offers a wide-ranging dialogue between theory and German Idealism, joining up the various lines of influence connecting German Idealist and Romantic philosophies in all their variety to post-'68 European philosophies, from Derrida and Deleuze to Žižek and Malabou.
CONTENTS
Part One: Reading the German Idealists after ‘68
1. Reading Kant, Sean Gaston
2. Reading Fichte, F. Scott Scribner
3. Reading Maimon, Daniela Voss
4. Reading Novalis and the Schlegels, Kirill Chepurin
5. Reading Hölderlin, Gabriel Trop
6. Reading Hegel I: Textuality and the Phenomenology, Kristina Mendicino
7. Reading Hegel II: Politics and History, Gregor Moder
8. Reading Schelling, Tyler Tritten
9. Reading Schopenhauer, Joel Faflak
Part Two: Themes and Concepts
10. Systems of Knowledge, Tilottama Rajan
11. Psychoanalysis, Gord Barentsen
12. Art, Anna Ezekiel
13. Nature and Extinction, Thomas Moynihan
14. Language, Oriane Petteni and Daniel Whistler
15. Difference, Arkady Plotnitsky
16. Nothing, Andrew W. Hass
17. Apocalypse, Agata Bielik-Robson
18. The University, Lenka Vráblíková
19. Revolution and Enlightenment, Kyla Bruff
20. Sovereignty and Community, Ian James
Part Three: Contemporary Stakes
21. Felix Culpa, Dialectic and Becoming-Imperceptible, Claire Colebrook
22. Monism and Mistakes, Adrian Johnston
23. Editors’ Conclusions: The Past, Present and Future of the Theory–German Idealism Relation, Tilottama Rajan and Daniel Whistler
Contents of Dossier:
1. Hemsterhuis in Germany: An Introduction, Daniel Whistler
2. Hemsterhuis and Mediation, Andrew J. Mitchell
3. “Coagulated Spirit”? Hemsterhuis on Matter as Organ and Signature, Carlos Zorrilla Piña
4. “Come le comete intorno al sole”. Il confronto tra gli antichi e i moderni in Hemsterhuis e la sua ricezione, Viviana Galletta
5. Thinking Elasticity in Hemsterhuis, Novalis, and Beyond, Jocelyn Holland
6. Mathesis universalis moralis. Hemsterhuis’s Moral Organ in Novalis’s Philosophy of Science, Santiago J. Napoli
7. The Ethics and Politics of Force in Hemsterhuis, Herder, Goethe, Schiller and Günderrode, Gabriel Trop
8. Theodicy across Scales: Hemsterhuis’s Alexis and the Dawn of Romantic Cosmism, Kirill Chepurin
9. François Hemsterhuis, Letters on Prometheus, translated by Daniel Whistler
10. François Hemsterhuis, Lettre sur les désirs, transcription de Laure Cahen-Maurel
11. Ludwig von Schrautenbach, Two Notices: On Hemsterhuis’s Letter on Desires and Letter on Man and his Relations, translated by Jacob van Sluis and Daniel Whistler
12. Novalis, Hemsterhuis Studies, translated by James D. Reid
This collection offers a rich and diverse philosophical exploration of the history of contemplation, from the classical period to the twenty-first century. It covers canonical figures including Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Kant, as well as debates in less well-known areas such as classical Chinese and Neoplatonic thought and the role of speculation in nineteenth-century Russian philosophy.
Comprising twenty-two chapters by an international team of contributors, the volume is divided into five parts: (1) Flourishing and Thinking from Homer to Hume; (2) The Thinking of Thinking from Augustine to Gödel; (3) Images and Thinking from Plotinus to Unger; (4) Bodies of Thought and Habits of Thinking from Plato to Irigaray; (5) The Efficacy of Thinking from Sextus to Bataille.
Thought: A Philosophical History is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical thought and contemplation. As such it is a landmark publication for anyone researching and teaching the history of philosophy, and a valuable resource for those studying the subject in related fields such as literature, religion, sociology and the history of ideas.
Contents
Part 1: Flourishing and Thinking from Homer to Hume
1. Thinking Like a Hero, Casey Perin
2. The Primacy of Practice and the Centrality of Outlook: Reflections on Chinese Ethical Traditions, Kwong-loi Shun
3. Thinking, Theorising and Theoria, Stephen Clark
Part 2: The Thinking of Thinking from Augustine to Gödel
4. The Myth of the Mental: an Augustinian critique of Dreyfus and McDowell, Catherine Pickstock
5. Romantic Thinking, Nicholas Halmi
6. Pure and Impure Thinking in Hegel’s Encyclopedia, Markus Gabriel
7. Denkicht—Thicket-Thinking with Walter Benjamin around 1917, Peter Fenves
8. Formal-Syntactical Thinking and the Structure of the World, Paul M. Livingston
Part 3: Images and Thinking from Plotinus to Unger
9. Plotinus: Philosophical Thinking as Self-Creation, Panayiota Vassilopoulou
10. Thinking’s History: Descartes and the Past Tense of Thought, Andrea Gadberry
11. Polyp-Thinking in the Eighteenth Century, Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler
12. The Mythic Imagination as an ‘Experiment in Philosophy’: Erich Unger’s Contribution to the Phenomenology of Thinking, Bruce Rosenstock
Part 4: Bodies of Thought and Habits of Thinking from Plato to Irigaray
13. Thinking about the Unthinkable: Hypothesizing the khôra in the Timaeus, Luc Brisson
14. Thought in Motion: Lucretius’ Materialist Practice, Thomas Nail
15. Thinking Philosophically in the Middle Ages: The Case of the Early Franciscans, Lydia Schumacher
16. The ‘Thought-Work’; Or, The Exuberance of Thinking in Kant and Freud, Stella Sandford
17. Thinking Otherwise with Irigaray and Maximin, Rachel Jones
Part 5: The Efficacy of Thinking from Sextus to Bataille
18. Thinking without Commitment: Two Models, Richard Bett
19. Thinking, Acting, and Acting by Thinking: Marx and Althusser, Gregor Moder
20. ‘Thoughts and purposes have come to me in the shadow I should never have learned in the sunshine’: The Development of Philosophical Thinking in the Literature of Frances E.W. Harper, Catherine Villanueva Gardner
21. The Void of Thought and the Ambivalence of History: Chaadaev, Bakunin, Fedorov, Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet
22. The Destruction of Thought, Gil Anidjar
Interrogating Modernity returns to Hans Blumenberg's epochal The Legitimacy of the Modern Age as a springboard to interrogate questions of modernity, secularisation, technology and political legitimacy in the fields of political theology, history of ideas, political theory, art theory, history of philosophy, theology and sociology. That is, the twelve essays in this volume return to Blumenberg's work to think once more about how and why we should value the modern. Written by a group of leading international and interdisciplinary researchers, this series of responses to the question of the modern put Blumenberg into dialogue with other twentieth, and twenty-first century theorists, such as Arendt, Bloch, Derrida, Husserl, Jonas, Latour, Voegelin, Weber and many more. The result is a repositioning of his work at the heart of contemporary attempts to make sense of who we are and how we’ve got here.
Contents
Editors' Preface: Blumenberg's Modernity, Agata Bielik-Robson and Daniel Whistler
Part One: Overcoming Gnosticism
1. I Hurt, Therefore I Am: Descartes with Blumenberg (and Job), Agata Bielik-Robson
2. Legitimacy of Nihilism: Blumenberg’s Post-Gnosticism, Elad Lapidot
3. Blumenberg, Latour and the Apocalypse, Willem Styfhals
Part Two: Political Theologies of Modernity
4. The Sovereign Position of the World: Towards a Political Theology of Modernity (after Blumenberg), Joseph Albernaz and Kirill Chepurin
5. Interrogating John Locke and the Propriety of Appropriation with Blumenberg and Voegelin, Lissa McCullough
6. Political Legitimacy and Founding Myths, Zeynep Talay Turner
Part Three: Competing Visions of Modernity
7. Trial and Crisis: Blumenberg and Husserl on the Genesis and Meaning of Modern Science, Robert Buch
8. Infinite Progress and the Burdens of Biography, Charles Turner
9. The Ideal of Optics and the Opacity of Life: Blumenberg on Modernity and Myth, Oriane Petteni
Part Four: Modernity and Method
10. World-Modelling and Cartesian Method: Blumenberg’s Hyperopia, Adi Efal-Lautenschläger
11. Umbesetzung – Reoccupation in Blumenbergian Modernity, Sonja Feger
12. Modernising Blumenberg, Daniel Whistler
L’austère figure de Victor Cousin (1792-1867) ne cesse de réapparaître pour rappeler son rôle dans l’institution de la philosophie française. Mais il demeure un illustre inconnu, un « bon mort », lorsqu’on interroge les ressorts philosophiques de son succès. L’objectif de ce volume collectif est d’explorer l’étendard qu’il s’était donné avant de se déclarer spiritualiste : « l’éclectisme ». Qu’en fait-il exactement ? Les études rassemblées montrent l’ambiguïté constitutive d’une méthode philosophique redoutablement efficace : à la fois irénique et guerrière, syncrétique et exclusive. Cousin n’a alors plus rien d’un « bon mort ». Une confrontation avec son spectre devient un passage obligé pour toute réflexion sur la vitalité de l’histoire de la philosophie et de son enseignement.
Contents
Introduction. Un bon mort est un mort mort : vive Victor Cousin !, Delphine Antoine-Mahut et Daniel Whistler
I. L’histoire de l’éclectisme et l’histoire éclectique
1. Le XVIIIe siècle : moment d’une renaissance de l’éclectisme philosophique, Gilles Barroux
2. Commencement, recommencement et frontières de la philosophie
chez Cousin, Ayşe Yuva
3. L’historiographie éclectique de Victor Cousin entre la renaissance orientale et le miracle grec, Renzo Ragghianti
4. Machiavel à Paris : l’historiographie philosophique sur la Renaissance et la dissidence idéologique à l’éclectisme (1829-1843), Mario Meliadò
II. L’éclectisme en France au XIXe siècle
5. Joseph Ferrari, l’insurrection péripatéticienne contre le christianisme, et l’impiété de la Renaissance devenue système par le cartésianisme, Patrice Vermeren
6. Politiques de l’éclectisme en situation de crise. Damiron promoteur d’une école philosophique, Félix Barancy
7. Une saine philosophie pour la médecine. L’accusation d’éclectisme par le Dr Victor-Pierre Renouard (1798-1888), Samuel Lézé
III. L’héritage de l’éclectisme
8. Une French Theory au XIXe siècle. L’éclectisme de Cousin en Grande-Bretagne et aux Etats-Unis d’Amérique, Catherine König-Pralong
9. La construction d’une voix philosophique pour la nation. L’éclectisme au Brésil, Júlio Canhada
10. L’éclectisme philosophique en Nouvelle-Grenade (Colombie). Circulation du discours et usages politiques, Mario Alejandro Molano Vega
11. Le musée de philosophie. Cousin et Malraux, Daniel Whistler
12. Postface. Les dernières heures de Victor Cousin et la scène de la révolution philosophique en France, Pierre-François Moreau et Patrice Vermeren
Contents
1. Foreword, Walter Kasper
2. Editorial Introduction, Daniel Whistler and Johannes Zachhuber
3. Schelling and Protestant Theology, Jan Rohls
4. F.W.J. Schelling and the Rise of Historical Theology, Johannes Zachhuber
5. Immunitary Foreclosures: Schelling and British Idealism, Tilottama Rajan
6. Did Schelling Live on in Catholic Theology? An Examination of his Influence on Catholic Tuebingen, Grant Kaplan
7. Mythology, Essence and Form: Schelling's Jewish Reception in the Nineteenth Century, Paul Franks
8. Schelling's Prehistory in Russia: The Legacy of Enlightenment, Sigrun Bielfeldt
9. Schelling and the New England Mind, Joel Rasmussen
10. Freedom, Sin and the Absoluteness of Christianity: Reflections on the Early Tillich's Schelling-Reception, Christian Danz
11. "The Story Continues...": Schelling and Rosenzweig on Narrative Philosophy, Agata Bielik-Robson
12. Aspects of Schelling Influence on Bulgakov and other thinkers of the Russian Religious Renaissance, Tikhon Vasilyev
13. Schelling and Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology: The Case of Walter Kasper, Antonio Russo
14. The Schelling of Religious Existentialism, Daniel Whistler
This critical history charts this reshaping by focusing on the emerging theological themes of the period that cross authors, disciplines and nations. A team of internationally leading scholars map lines of thought from Romanticism through Hegelianism and positivism, exploring the richness of theology’s interactions with anthropology, art, industry, literature, philosophy, science and society.
Key Features
Takes an interdisciplinary approach to theology, focusing on key developments such as philosophical speculation and positivism, natural selection and social change
Key controversies, often consigned to disparate theological sub-fields, are arranged thematically
Repositions 19th-century theology as a vital series of intellectual experiments at the heart of the intellectual discourse of the era
Contributors
Ruth Barton, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Roland Boer, University of Newcastle, Australia, and Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Joshua Cockayne, University of York, UK.
Susan Curtis, Purdue University, USA.
Benjamin Dawson, Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Andrew W. Hass, University of Stirling, UK.
Joseph P. Lawrence, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts, USA.
Gerard Loughlin, Durham University, UK.
Lissa McCullough, California State University Dominguez Hills, USA.
George Pattison, University of Glasgow, UK.
Thomas Pfau, Duke University, USA.
Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope University, UK.
Katie Terezakis, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.
Katya Tolstaya, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Daniel Whistler, University of Liverpool, UK.
Johannes Zachhuber, University of Oxford, UK.
Bennett Zon, Durham University, UK.
Regula Zwahlen, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Edited with Tyler Tritten. First published as a special issue of Angelaki (21.4 [2016]). This is Routledge's reprint of the journal issue, available here: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/21/4.
Now available in paperback: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/on-the-feminist-philosophy-of-gillian-howie-9781350067295/
Contents
1. Introduction: The Impact of Philosophy of Religion, Chris Baker and Daniel Whistler
2. Speculative Realism and Public Theology: Explorations, John Reader
3. Philosophy of Religion in an Age of Austerity: Towards a Socially Engaged Philosophy for the Well-Lived Life, Beverley Clack
4. Retrospective Speculative Philosophy: Looking for Traces of Zizek's Communist Collective in Emerging Christian Practice, Katharine Moody
5. Latour, Prepositions and the Instauration of Secularism, Anna Strhan
6. "You Turn if You Want to": The Questions a Pragmatic Political Theology Might Ask of Speculative Realism, Graeme Smith
7. What's Missing? Gender, Reason and the Postsecular, Elaine Graham
CLUSTER ONE: SELF/OTHER RELATIONS
1. Morality, Metaphysics and Religion
Raimond Gaita (Professor of Moral Philosophy, King's College London)
2. Love, Hate and Moral Inclusion
Anca Gheaus (Research Fellow in Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
3. The Discipline of Pius Reason: Goethe, Herder, Kant
Daniel Whistler (Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy and Theology, University of Oxford)
CLUSTER TWO: THE FRAGILITY OF LIFE
4. On Loss of Confidence: Dissymmetry, Doubt, Deprivation in the Power to Act and (the Power) to Suffer
Pamela Sue Anderson (Reader in Philosophy of Religion, University of Oxford)
5. The Passionate Life: On Grief and Human Experience
James Carter (Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy and Theology, University of Oxford)
6. A Ricoeurian Hymn to Humanity: "You are better than your actions"
Michele Kueter Petersen (Doctoral Candidate in Modern Religious Thought, University of Iowa)
CLUSTER THREE: PHILOSOPHY VIA ART
7. Love and Transcendence
Martin Warner (Associate Fellow in Philosophy, University of Warwick)
8. Philosophy, Morality and the Self: Against Thinness
Christopher Hamilton (Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion, King's College London)
9. The Holy Doubt: Jack Kerouac and Postmodernism
Joseph Carlisle (Doctoral Candidate in Theology, University of Oxford)
CLUSTER FOUR: THE VITALITY OF BELIEF
10. Religion in its Material Context: Some Considerations Drawn from Contemporary Philosophies of Place
Mark Wynn (Senior Lecturer in Theology, University of Exeter)
11. Play, Psychoanalysis and Feminist Philosophy of Religion
Beverley Clack (Reader in Philosophy of Religion, Oxford Brookes University)
12. Religious Belief and the Disregard of Reality
Brian Clack (Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of San Diego)
Contents
1. Editor's Introduction, Daniel Whistler
2. Emmanuel Levinas and the Hospitality of Images, Aaron Rosen
3. Artist Bound: The Enslavement of Art to the Hegelian Other, Andrew Hass
4. Political Theology in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw, Jayme Yeo
5. Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and the Alterity of the New World, Jacqueline Cowan
6. Constructions of Sex and Gender: Attending to Androgynes and Tumtumim through Jewish Scriptural Use, Marianne Schleicher
7. Some Problems with the Very Idea of Otherness, Ben Morgan
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This editorial preface introduces our volume of translations of Victor Cousin's shorter works by looking to recent strands of French scholarly interest in Cousin and providing short summaries of his project and his intellectual biography.
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This chapter explains the groundbreaking approach taken to the history of French philosophy by the Handbook of Modern French Philosophy. With the view that French philosophy from the beginning of the nineteenth century cannot be adequately understood without reference to its roots in the national education system, the chapter also offers a historical account of the development of French philosophical institutions. It focuses on the role of philosophy in the education system, the different research and teaching institutions, and the organs, such as journals, through which it is disseminated.
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This introduction familiarises the reader with the project undertaken in Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France by focusing on the various methodological requirements for its transnational reception-history. Such a methodology should trace the mutations, contestations and hybridisations that constitute the dissemination of Hegel's and Schelling's philosophies into France. We argue, in particular, for a renewed method in the history of post-Kantian philosophy which is: firstly, more sensitive to the work of intellectual history and the history of ideas; secondly, as interested in the material processes by which an argument circulates as the validity of that argument itself; and, thirdly, which does away with the canon, as far as possible, in favour of a history of philosophy done in a minoritarian key.
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This chapter stages a confrontation between various poststructuralist materialisms of language and German Idealist naturalisms by way of two case studies into J. W. Goethe’s and F. W. J. Schelling’s textual practices and the various models for light and darkness that underpin them.
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A translation of Ludwig von Schrautenbach's 1772 critical notices on two of Hemsterhuis's early works - which were traditionally attributed to Herder.
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Has there ever been a law criminalizing mental states in themselves? We show that there has been, and still is: the Treason Act 1351. We argue for what we call ‘the Mental Interpretation’ of the Act, over against the interpretation that it criminalizes a complex of a mental state and an ‘overt act’. We also provide authority for the stronger thesis that the overt act functions purely as evidence for the mental state. We discuss other laws in various jurisdictions that have historically criminalized mental states in themselves. We conclude by considering the objection that the European Convention on Human Rights rules out our interpretation.
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During the eighteenth century, philosophers employed models drawn from the life sciences to explain human rationality, and this essay is concerned with one of these models-that of the freshwater polyp. We contend that Trembley's experiments on polyps in the early 1740s influenced the way eighteenth-century philosophers understood their own intellectual practices-and so the figure of the polyp came to be used metaphorically, in philosophical texts of the period, as an epistemic virtue (or vice) with respect to both thinking in general and philosophical practice in particular. To show this, we undertake three specific case studies of polyp-thinking in Denis Diderot, Charles Bonnet and C. F. Kielmeyer-and, ultimately, we argue that, despite the huge diversity that holds across the three case studies, each of these philosophers exhibits a common interest in naturalising the thinking process.
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The link is to the freely available electronic version of this article in Russian (http://www.logosjournal.ru/arch/86/111_2.pdf); the uploaded version (Abstraction and Utopia in Early German Idealism) is in English.
This article has been republished in English in the Russian Journal of Philosophy and Humanities 2.2: http://www.logosjournal.ru/arch/91/2_02.pdf.
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The link is to the freely available electronic version of this book (http://nepfil.ufpel.edu.br/dissertatio/acervo/14-religiao.pdf); the uploaded version (Challenges for a Renewed Philosophy of the Secular) is in English.
The uploaded version is merely a preliminary draft; please follow the link for the published version: http://plijournal.com/volumes/26/.
The uploaded version is merely a preliminary draft; please follow the link for the published version: http://plijournal.com/volumes/26/.
The uploaded version is merely a preliminary draft; please follow the link for the published version: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/reading-the-abrahamic-faiths-9781472509505/
Co-written with Joshua Ramey. The uploaded version is merely a preliminary draft; please follow the link for the published version: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739174753
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Available for free at the link below: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1usnw3ihl9yxpu5/Speculations_III_EBook.pdf
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The uploaded version is merely a preliminary draft; please follow the link for the published version: http://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Postsecular-Postmodern-Continental-Philosophy/dp/1443827045/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
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The uploaded version is merely a preliminary draft; please follow the link for the published version: http://litthe.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/4/401.full.pdf+html
The uploaded version is merely a preliminary draft; please follow the link for the published version: http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/religious+studies/book/978-1-4020-6832-4.
The uploaded version ("The Dying Faust": Berdiaev on Spengler) is in English.
Available at: https://www.tea-assembly.com/issues/8/finding-the-plantness-within-ourselves
A reflection on the various epistemic and transformative practices recommended by recent plant-thinking theorists, stemming from Monia Gagliano's question, ‘How can a plant readily know us, when we are hardly aware of the plantness within ourselves?’
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