M. Léon Brunschvicg demande si l’on n’a pas embrouillé le problème de la transcendance et de l’immanence lorsqu’on l’a réduit, sous le prétexte de le simplifier, à l’antithèse de notions corrélatives. Ne s’agirait-il pas plutôt de deux attitudes de pensée correspondant à deux modes de distribution des valeurs? Imagination en hauteur, qui va de la nature au surnaturel ; réflexion en profondeur, qui va de la nature à l’esprit : Deus superior summo meoT Deus intimior intimo meo. L’enchevêtrement (...) de perspectives incompatibles a condamné le néo-platonisme à se perdre dans l’abîme de la théologie négative, tandis que les analyses critiques de Descartes, de Berkeley, de Kant, fournissent, par delà même la lettre de leurs doctrines, le moyen de redresser les termes du problème. (shrink)

Léon Brunschvicg's contribution to philosophical thought in fin-de-siècle France receives full explication in the first English-language study on his work. Arguing that Brunschvicg is crucial to understanding the philosophical schools which took root in 20th-century France, Pietro Terzi locates Brunschvicg alongside his contemporary Henri Bergson, as well as the range of thinkers he taught and influenced, including Lévinas, Merleau-Ponty, de Beauvoir, and Sartre. Brunschvicg's deep engagement with debates concerning spiritualism and rationalism, neo-Kantian philosophy, and the (...) role of mathematics in philosophy made him the perfect supervisor for a whole host of nascent philosophical ideas which were forming in the work of his students. Terzi outlines Brunchvicg's defence of neo-Kantian judgement, historical analysis and the inextricability of the natural and humanist sciences to any rigorous system of philosophy, with wide-ranging implications for contemporary scholarship. (shrink)

Excerpt from Les Etapes de la Philosophie Mathematique Nous voudrions indiquer maintenant comment notre enquete historique nous a guide vers les conclusions que nous avons soutenues dans les dernieres pages de notre travail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the (...) aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. (shrink)