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The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man (Hardcover)
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The Relationship between the Physical and the Moral in Man (Hardcover)
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Maine de Biran's work has had an enormous influence on the
development of French Philosophy - 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. From Ravaisson and Bergson, through to the
phenomenology of major figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty,
Michel Henry, and Paul Ricoeur, Biran's influence is evident and
acknowledged as a major contribution. The notion of corps propre,
so important to phenomenology in the twentieth century, originates
in his thought. His work also had a huge impact on the distinction
between the virtual and the actual as well as the concepts of
effort and puissance, enormously important to the development of
Deleuze's and Foucault's work. This volume, the first English
translation of Maine de Biran in nearly a century, introduces
Anglophone readers to the work of this seminal thinker. The
Relationship Between the Physical and the Moral in Man is an
expression of Biran's mature 'spiritualism' and philosophy of the
will as well as perhaps the clearest articulation of his
understanding of what would later come to be called the mind-body
problem. In this text Biran sets out forcefully his case for the
autonomy of mental or spiritual life against the reductive
explanatory power of the physicalist natural sciences. The
translation is accompanied by critical essays from experts in
France and the United Kingdom, situating Biran's work and its
reception in its proper historical and intellectual context.
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