Towards a New Anthropology of the Embodied Mind: Maine de Biran's Physio-Spiritualism from 1800 to the 21st Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-51561-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 867 g

Reihe: Studies in Mysticism, Idealism, and Phenomenology

This exploration in the history of ideas examines the groundbreaking notion of the embodied mind in its analysis by the French philosopher and politician Maine de Biran (1766–1824) and in its afterlife: consciousness is generated through frequent interaction between the voluntary and the spiritual. The conscious, active self is constituted in its sovereign autonomy, as free and undivided, by an inner act of willful resistance, a physical effort towards its own body and the world. For the first time, a multidisciplinary group of senior and junior researchers from Japan, USA and Europe investigate origins and discursive cross-fertilization of this concept around 1800, an intermediary stage between 1870 and 1945, and its influence upon existentialism, phenomenology, and deconstructivism during the postwar-period and beyond, from 1943 to 2010.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Milz, Manfred

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

9789004515611
Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Maine De Biran in His Time (Around) 1800

1 Maine de Biran: Gender, Sensibility, and the Dynamics of Self in Post-revolutionary France

Sean Quinlan

2 Maine de Biran and Neurology

Larry McGrath

3 On Sympathy and Attention: Maine de Biran, Reader of Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart

Marco Piazza

4 Did Maine de Biran Refute David Hume?

Warren Schmaus

5 Biran and Schelling: “Contact Points” for a Radical Phenomenology

Marc Maesschalck

6 Schopenhauer and the Primal Will—A Radically Phenomenological Reading in Comparison with Maine de Biran

Rolf Kühn

7 Quel œil peut se voir soi-même?: Character and Habit in Stendhal and Maine de Biran

Alessandra Aloisi

Part 2 Intermediary Biranian Posterities (1870s–1945)

8 Jules Lachelier, Reader of Maine de Biran—Contention and Legacy

Denise Vincenti

9 Maine de Biran, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, Henri Bergson: from Concentration to Expansion and Back Again

Benjamin Jacques Bâcle

10 The French Kant (or Fichte)? Brunschvicg, Biran, and the missed Synchronism

Pietro Terzi

11 Maurice Blondel’s Philosophical Debt to Maine de Biran

Michael A. Conway

12 Power(s) of I, Myself: Louis Lavelle and Maine de Biran

Anne Devarieux

13 The First Significant Season of Maine de Biran’s Reception in Italy between Neo-Kantianism and Spiritualistic Realism (1911–1939)

Marco Piazza

14 Maine de Biran in Huxley’s Brave New World: Transcending the Utilitarian through a Spiritual Self

Manfred Milz

15 Voluntary Movement as Reflection or Creation: Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, and Nishida Kitaro

Mika Imono

Part 3 Postwar Biran-Reception and Beyond: Existentialism; Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (1943–2010)

16 Paul Ricœur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty on the “Primitive Fact” of Subjectivity in Maine de Biran

Eftichis Epirovolakis

17 The Docile Body: Paul Ricœur’s Critique of Biran’s “Primitive Fact”

Scott Davidson

18 “L’Immanence: une vie… ” – Gilles Deleuze, Maine de Biran and the Transcendental Field

Alessandra Aloisi

19 Sensing Resistance? On Jacques Derrida’s Reading of Maine de Biran

Björn Thorsteinsson

20 (An) Unforgettable Maine de Biran? The Biranian Heresy of Michel Henry

Anne Devarieux

21 The Deep Layer of Affectivity—Maine de Biran’s Influence on Marc Richir’s Phenomenological Project

Luis Umbelino

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Manfred Milz, Ph.D. in History of Art, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. He is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Media, Language and Culture at the University of Regensburg and long-term Visiting Associate Professor at the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture, University of Johannesburg. Milz is the author of Samuel Beckett und Alberto Giacometti (Königshausen & Neumann 2006), guest-editor of The European Legacy (2011): Bergson and European Modernism Reconsidered, editor of Facing Mental Landscapes (2011), editor of Painting the Persian Book of Kings Today (millennium anniversary catalogue, Cambridge 2010), and the editor-in-chief of the Brill book series Transcultural Aesthetics, founded in 2021 by the IAA.