{"product_id":"victor-cousin-philosophical-fragments-hardcover","title":"Victor Cousin: Philosophical Fragments - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDelphine Antoine-Mahut\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDaniel Whistler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first English translation of some of Victor Cousin's most important philosophical writings for over 150 years, accompanied by extensive contextual and analytic resources from a team of internationally recognized Cousin scholars. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVictor Cousin was a towering philosophical figure of the nineteenth century: no French philosopher since has fully escaped his shadow. This edition of \u003cem\u003ePhilosophical Fragments\u003c\/em\u003e brings together a series of Cousin's most accessible and significant texts to introduce English-language readers to his thought, along with commentaries on his relationship to Cartesianism, his role in the invention of the historiography of philosophy, as well as his lasting institutional legacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe edition includes many of Cousin's most significant shorter pieces, such as his 1826 Preface to\u003cem\u003e Philosophical Fragments\u003c\/em\u003e, the 'manifesto' by means of which he relaunched the French spiritualist project and set out his own eclectic project in the history of philosophy; his 1833 Preface to\u003cem\u003e Philosophical Fragments\u003c\/em\u003e, in which he responds to mounting criticism of his version of spiritualism by setting out definitively his relations to Descartes, eighteenth-century sensualism, German Idealism, and Catholic theology; and a selection of the \u003cem\u003eFragments\u003c\/em\u003e themselves, charting the genesis of his philosophy from the 1810s to the 1840s.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelphine Antoine-Mahut, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of History of Modern Philosophy, École normale supérieure de Lyon\u003c\/em\u003e, Daniel Whistler, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince 2014, Delphine Antoine-Mahut has been Professor of History of Modern Philosophy at ENS de Lyon, having previously held positions as Assistant Professor in History of Modern Philosophy in the same Institution and as an upper-secondary school teacher (agrégée) in the Paris suburbs and French regions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDaniel Whistler is Professor of Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, having previously held positions as Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, Humboldt Fellow at the Westfälische-Wilhelms Universität, Münster, and EURIAS Fellow at the École normale supérieure de Lyon.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.06 x 9.42 x 6.41 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47578531135709,"sku":"9780198866268","price":184.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/VHbIedAFpn9780198866268.webp?v=1773508228","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/victor-cousin-philosophical-fragments-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}