Delphine Antoine-Mahut, Full Professor of the History of Modern Philosophy at ENS de Lyon (IRHIM), and Daniel Whistler, Senior Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of London Royal Holloway, publish “Philosophical Fragments, Victor Cousin - Critical Edition by Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Daniel Whistler”.
Philosophical Fragments, Victor Cousin
Critical edition by Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Daniel Whistler
Collection British Society for the History of Philosophy:New Texts in the History of Philosophy
This book represents the first English translation of some of Victor Cousin's most important philosophical writings in over 150 years, accompanied by a wealth of contextual and analytical resources provided by a team of leading international scholars on Victor Cousin.
Victor Cousin was a major philosophical figure of the 19th century: no French philosopher since has escaped his shadow. This edition of Philosophical Fragments brings together a series of Victor Cousin's most accessible and significant texts to introduce his thought to English-speaking readers, as well as commentaries on his relationship with Cartesianism, his role in inventing the historiography of philosophy, and his enduring institutional legacy.
This edition includes several of Cousin's most important shorter texts, such as his 1826 Preface to the Philosophical Fragments, the “manifesto” with which he relaunched the French spiritualist project and set out his own eclectic project in the history of philosophy; his 1833 Preface to the Philosophical Fragments, in which he responds to growing criticism of his version of spiritualism by definitively clarifying its relationship with Descartes, 18th-century sensualism, German idealism and Catholic theology. A selection of the Fragments themselves, tracing the genesis of his philosophy from the 1810s to the 1840s, is also included.