Rediscovering Léon Brunschvicg's critical idealism : philosophy, history, and science in the third republic /
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Enter the watchdog
- About this book: Overview, methodology and scope
- 1. man, the context
- Origins
- Formative years
- Apogee
- Political engagement
- 2. nature of the intellect and the critique of Bergsonism
- Introduction
- Dividing lines
- Idealism, spiritualism, intellectualism
- Time and judgement
- Intelligence or/as intuition
- Against psychological interiority
- Conclusion
- 3. Brunschvicg and the history of philosophy
- Introduction
- Ancient philosophy: From Homo Sapiens to Homo Credulus
- Consciousness awakens: Montaigne, Descartes and Pascal?
- Spinoza: The immanence of truth to thought
- spirit of criticism: Kant and Fichte
- Conclusion
- 4. legacy of the nineteenth century
- Introduction
- From one spiritualism to another
- dawn of reflective philosophy
- Scientific philosophy rises
- marriage of reflective and scientific philosophy
- Critical idealism versus neo-criticism
- Conclusion
- 5. philosophy of judgement
- Introduction
- farewell to syllogism
- problem of modality
- Varieties of judgement
- Confessions of a beaten idealist
- Conclusion
- 6. History: The philosopher's laboratory
- Introduction
- Contingency in history
- History and judgement
- Chronology and mentalities
- history of Egypt as the history of Egyptology
- Conclusion
- 7. Lessons of science
- Introduction
- Mathematical bloodlines: Arithmetism, logicism, intuitionism
- idealism of metageometry
- relativistic revolution
- Einstein and the philosophers
- critique of experimental judgement
- Relativity, uncertainty and humanism
- Conclusion
- 8. last years: From the Sorbonne to Exile
- Introduction
- Scientific humanism
- Concrete struggles
- God of scientists and the God of Abraham
- European mind
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Exodus
- existentialist patricide
- fates of reflection
- epistemological offspring
- Outro.