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Book SynopsisThis exploration in the history of ideas examines the groundbreaking notion of the embodied mind in its analysis by the French philosopher and politician Maine de Biran (1766–1824) and in its afterlife: consciousness is generated through frequent interaction between the voluntary and the spiritual. The conscious, active self is constituted in its sovereign autonomy, as free and undivided, by an inner act of willful resistance, a physical effort towards its own body and the world. For the first time, a multidisciplinary group of senior and junior researchers from Japan, USA and Europe investigate origins and discursive cross-fertilization of this concept around 1800, an intermediary stage between 1870 and 1945, and its influence upon existentialism, phenomenology, and deconstructivism during the postwar-period and beyond, from 1943 to 2010.
Table of Contents9789004515611 Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Maine De Biran in His Time (Around) 1800 1 Maine de Biran: Gender, Sensibility, and the Dynamics of Self in Post-revolutionary France Sean Quinlan 2 Maine de Biran and Neurology Larry McGrath 3 On Sympathy and Attention: Maine de Biran, Reader of Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart Marco Piazza 4 Did Maine de Biran Refute David Hume? Warren Schmaus 5 Biran and Schelling: “Contact Points” for a Radical Phenomenology Marc Maesschalck 6 Schopenhauer and the Primal Will—A Radically Phenomenological Reading in Comparison with Maine de Biran Rolf Kühn 7 Quel œil peut se voir soi-même?: Character and Habit in Stendhal and Maine de Biran Alessandra Aloisi Part 2 Intermediary Biranian Posterities (1870s–1945) 8 Jules Lachelier, Reader of Maine de Biran—Contention and Legacy Denise Vincenti 9 Maine de Biran, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, Henri Bergson: from Concentration to Expansion and Back Again Benjamin Jacques Bâcle 10 The French Kant (or Fichte)? Brunschvicg, Biran, and the missed Synchronism Pietro Terzi 11 Maurice Blondel’s Philosophical Debt to Maine de Biran Michael A. Conway 12 Power(s) of I, Myself: Louis Lavelle and Maine de Biran Anne Devarieux 13 The First Significant Season of Maine de Biran’s Reception in Italy between Neo-Kantianism and Spiritualistic Realism (1911–1939) Marco Piazza 14 Maine de Biran in Huxley’s Brave New World: Transcending the Utilitarian through a Spiritual Self Manfred Milz 15 Voluntary Movement as Reflection or Creation: Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, and Nishida Kitarō Mika Imono Part 3 Postwar Biran-Reception and Beyond: Existentialism; Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (1943–2010) 16 Paul Ricœur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty on the “Primitive Fact” of Subjectivity in Maine de Biran Eftichis Epirovolakis 17 The Docile Body: Paul Ricœur’s Critique of Biran’s “Primitive Fact” Scott Davidson 18 “L’Immanence: une vie… ” – Gilles Deleuze, Maine de Biran and the Transcendental Field Alessandra Aloisi 19 Sensing Resistance? On Jacques Derrida’s Reading of Maine de Biran Björn Thorsteinsson 20 (An) Unforgettable Maine de Biran? The Biranian Heresy of Michel Henry Anne Devarieux 21 The Deep Layer of Affectivity—Maine de Biran’s Influence on Marc Richir’s Phenomenological Project Luis Umbelino Bibliography Index
