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Felix Ravaisson: Fragments on Philosophy and Religion comprises translations from Ravaisson''s notes on the history and philosophy of religion, dating from 1850 to 1900. They address the history of religions, ancient Greek thought, Christian theology, and the philosophy of revelation. Bringing these texts to an English audience for the first time, the editors place the fragments in the context of Ravaisson''s philosophy as a whole. These unpublished fragments show Ravaisson''s lifelong grappling with fundamental questions of theology. They demonstrate that the research into mystery religions, mysticism and the Christian liturgy to which he devoted the end of his long career was not a rupture with the philosophy of his early years. In these texts, Ravaisson elaborated his philosophy of revelation, sacrifice and love, and continued the story he had begun with his study of Aristotle.>
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Victor Emma-Adamah is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Austin.Simone Kotva is Senior Lecturer in theology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is the author of Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy (2020), also with Bloomsbury, and writes at the intersection of Christian theology and Continental philosophy and theory. She has published articles on French spiritualism, contemplation, spiritual exercises, decolonial theology and practices of attention in a more-than-human world.Clare Carlisle is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London, UK. She is the author of several books including Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard (2019), Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics (2021), and The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life (2023).
