The relationship between the physical and the moral in man /

Henri Bergson called him the greatest French metaphysician since Descartes and Malebranche, Jules Lachelier referred to him as the French Kant, and Royer-Collard called him simply 'the master of us all' - and yet the philosopher and his work remain unknown to many English speaking readers....

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Main Author: Maine de Biran, Pierre, 1766-1824 (Author)
Other Authors: Meacham, Darian (Editor, Translator), Spadola, Joseph, 1982- (Editor, Translator), Spadola, Joseph (Editor, Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016
London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plx, 2016
London New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Editor's Preface / Darian Meacham
  • 2. The Development of Maine de Biran's Philosophy and the French Spiritualist Tradition: A Timeline / Jeremy Dunham
  • 3. Philological Preface to The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man by F.C.T. Moore / translated from the French by Darian Meacham
  • 4. Maine de Biran's Places in French Spiritualism: Occultation, Reduction and Demarcation / Delphine Antoine-Mahut; translated from the French by Darian Meacham
  • 5. The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man: Copenhagen Treatise 1811 / Maine de Biran; translated from the French by Joseph Spadola
  • 6. Maine de Biran and the Mind-Body Problem: An Introduction and Commentary on The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man / Pierre Montebello; translated from the French by Joseph Spadola
  • 7. A Universal and Absolute Spiritualism, Maine de Biran's Leibniz / Jeremy Durham
  • 8. Listen, Hear, Understand: Maine de Biran's Phenomenological Breakthrough / Pierre Kerszberg; translated from the French by Joseph Spadola
  • Cover page ; Halftitle page ; Series page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 Editor's Preface; 2 The Development of Maine de Biran's Philosophy and the French Spiritualist Tradition: A Timeline; 3 Philological Preface to The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man by F.C.T. Moore; 1. Context of the work; 2. History of the work; 3. Notes on the publication of the text; 4 Maine de Biran's Places in French Spiritualism: Occultation, Reduction and Demarcation; 1. Mutilation versus occultation: back to the genesis of silence
  • 2. Annexation versus reduction: the battle for the 'true' spiritualism3. Rebalancing versus demarcation: the experimental science of man according to Maine de Biran; 5 The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man: Copenhagen Treatise 1811; Programme; Introduction; Part one; First article; Second article; Third article; Conclusion of the fi rst part of thetreatise and introduction to thesecond part; Second part; Section one; Article one; Second article; Second section; The circumstances of this double regimen
  • 6 Maine de Biran and the Mind-Body Problem: An Introduction and Commentary on The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man7 A Universal and Absolute Spiritualism, Maine de Biran's Leibniz; 1. Maine de Biran's selective Leibnizianism; 2. Maine de Biran's ampliative Leibnizianism; 3. Maine de Biran's Leibniz and Victor Cousin; 4. Conclusion; Bibliography; 8 Listen, Hear, Understand: Maine de Biran's Phenomenological Breakthrough; INDEX