The Sociology of Philosophies

the dictatorship of Napoleon III, degrees in history and philosophy were eliminated in 1854, and the medieval trivium and quadri ...

FIGURE 14.1. NETWORK OF FRENCH PHILOSOPHERS, 1765–1935 ...

his Essay on the Foundations of Psychology. Neither sensation nor thought, but will, the internal sensation of bodily effort, is ...

between the Cartesian cogito and the anti-rationalism of Bergson and Sartre; instead he is submerged by his affinities with the ...

religion. In effect, Renouvier took the Cousinian eclectic curriculum and drew from it a moralizing lesson. His neo-criticism of ...

a number of less notable individuals. Lequier, as a former polytechnicien a scientist rather than a trained philosopher, produce ...

evidence to criticize positivism, lending support to the spiritualist battle carried on by his more traditionalist contemporarie ...

being marketed. Its retrospective canon was the subject of an outburst of anthologies and reprints, popularizing many figures su ...

cern for orthodoxy. This is shown by the fact that in 1848 he began to run out of money, and published no more books. He now hel ...

in 1856, in the midst of the controversy, he collapsed on the street while bringing home from the bank the very last of his inhe ...

he had discovered, and that powered his creativity, was opposition as a value in itself. His political position, like Nietzsche’ ...

ther the Atheismusstreit that surrounded Fichte, just as his connections with Deussen and Overbeck relate him to the Tübingen hi ...

dence, not unlike the depression of John Stuart Mill under the guidance of his father. Wagner corrected Nietzsche’s manuscripts. ...

general-purpose intellectual, the philosopher’s traditional slot in intellectual space, was taken by the journalist-critic, then ...

alist loyalties. Arrested, sentenced to death, and then commuted to a decade of imprisonment in Siberia during the 1850s, he ret ...

who applies phenomenology to study his own alienation. Camus contrives a murder story in The Stranger (1942) in order to set up ...

an elite can survive only with external financial support. Occasionally this happens by bootlegging avant-garde materials into w ...

ing at an early age, the progressive intensification of emotional energy and accumulation of cultural capital, building up to cr ...

circulation and mutual enhancement of creative energies among a circle of persons is characteristic of the peak years—so often c ...

as a student), who introduced Neo-Kantian Weltanschauung analysis into the French historical critique of modern science;^17 Aaro ...