TY  - BOOK
AU  - Terzi,Pietro
TI  - Rediscovering Leon Brunschvicg`s Critical Idealism: Philosophy, History, and Science in the Third Republic 
SN  - 9781350171671
U1  - N75 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Brunschvicg, Léon,
KW  - Idealism
KW  - Philosophy, French
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Subject(s): Brunschvicg, Leon, 1869-1944 | Idealism | Philosophy, French -- 20th century
N2  - "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"--
ER  -