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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.
List of contents
- Editors' Preface: Victor Cousin, Eclectic Philosophy and its Legacies
- Note on Editions, Abbreviations, and Translations
- Part One: Introductions
- 1: Delphine Antoine-Mahut: Cousin and French Philosophy
- 2: Félix Barancy and Sarah Bernard-Granger: Cousin and the Politics of Philosophy
- 3: Pierre-François Moreau: Cousin and the History of Philosophy
- 4: Lucie Rey: Cousin and the Eighteenth Century
- 5: Daniel Whistler: Cousin and the Problem of Metaphysics
- 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
About the author
Since 2014, Delphine Antoine-Mahut has been Professor of History of Modern Philosophy at ENS de Lyon, having previously held positions as Assistant Professor in History of Modern Philosophy in the same Institution and as an upper-secondary school teacher (agrégée) in the Paris suburbs and French regions.
Daniel Whistler is Professor of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, having previously held positions as Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, Humboldt Fellow at the Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität, Münster, and EURIAS Fellow at the École normale supérieure de Lyon.
Summary
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.
