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Zusatztext This publication makes available to English readers for the first time a crucial text in the history of nineteenth-century French philosophy. It's the clearest presentation available in English so far of Maine de Biran's most central philosophical theses - including his argument for our immediate experience of willed effort. This translation! produced by one of the period's best scholars! is careful and clear! and the text itself is of great philosophical interest for all those interested in the nineteenth-century history of the philosophy of mind and psychology. Informationen zum Autor Maine de Biran (1766 – 1824) was a prominent 19th-century French Philosopher and Politician. Mark Sinclair is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and Associate Editor (Reviews) at the British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Alessandra Aloisi is Lecturer in French Literature and Thought at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages of the University of Oxford, UK. She is co-editor, with M. Piazza and M. Sinclair, of Maine de Biran, Of Immediate Apperception (Bloomsbury, 2020). Marco Piazza is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Roma Tre, Italy. Klappentext Written when Maine de Biran was coming into his philosophical maturity, in 1807, 'Of Immediate Apperception' was the first complete statement of his own philosophy of the will. It was the winning entry to a competition organised by the Berlin Académie des Sciences et Belles-Lettres on the subject of self-awareness and of the possibility of an 'immediate apperception' of the self. It contains the core of Biran's philosophy of effort , as it is developed in dialogue with the tradition of British empiricism in particular. Notably, it is in this work that Biran first reflects on the 'lived body' and it marks the moment in which he fully accomplishes his break away from Condillac and the Ideological school. With enlightening critical apparatus, including an editor's introduction, glossary, and bibliography, the publication of this edition shows how Biran's work is pivotal for the development of French philosophy, and makes clear his influence on the later writings of Ravaisson and Bergson.The first translation of Maine Biran’s prize-winning dissertation at the Berlin Academy in 1807, his most complete book-length work. Zusammenfassung Written when Maine de Biran was coming into his philosophical maturity, in 1807, 'Of Immediate Apperception' was the first complete statement of his own philosophy of the will. It was the winning entry to a competition organised by the Berlin Académie des Sciences et Belles-Lettres on the subject of self-awareness and of the possibility of an ‘immediate apperception’ of the self. It contains the core of Biran’s philosophy of effort , as it is developed in dialogue with the tradition of British empiricism in particular. Notably, it is in this work that Biran first reflects on the ‘lived body’ and it marks the moment in which he fully accomplishes his break away from Condillac and the Ideological school. With enlightening critical apparatus, including an editor's introduction, glossary, and bibliography, the publication of this edition shows how Biran's work is pivotal for the development of French philosophy, and makes clear his influence on the later writings of Ravaisson and Bergson. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors’ Introduction A. Aloisi, University of Oxford, UK; Marco Piazza, University of Roma Tre, Italy; Mark Sinclair, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Of Immediate Apperception , Maine de Biran Glossary Maine de Biran BibliographyIndex...
