Rediscovering Leon Brunschvicg's Critical Idealism: Philosophy, History and Science in the Third Republic

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Main Details

Title Rediscovering Leon Brunschvicg's Critical Idealism: Philosophy, History and Science in the Third Republic
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Pietro Terzi
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreWestern philosophy from c 1900 to now
Philosophy - epistemology and theory of knowledge
Philosophy of religion
Philosophy of science
ISBN/Barcode 9781350171671
ClassificationsDewey:194
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 13 January 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Leon Brunschvicg's contribution to philosophical thought in fin-de-siecle France receives full explication in the first English-language study on his work. Arguing that Brunschvicg is crucial to understanding the philosophical schools which took root in 20th-century France, Pietro Terzi locates Brunschvicg alongside his contemporary Henri Bergson, as well as the range of thinkers he taught and influenced, including Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, de Beauvoir, and Sartre. Brunschvicg's deep engagement with debates concerning spiritualism and rationalism, neo-Kantian philosophy, and the role of mathematics in philosophy made him the perfect supervisor for a whole host of nascent philosophical ideas which were forming in the work of his students. Terzi outlines Brunchvicg's defence of neo-Kantian judgement, historical analysis and the inextricability of the natural and humanist sciences to any rigorous system of philosophy, with wide-ranging implications for contemporary scholarship.

Author Biography

Pietro Terzi is Associate Researcher at Paris Nanterre University, France.