Victor Emma-Adamah is a Research Associate at the Unité de Recherche: Culture, Éthique, Religion et Société (UR CERES) of the Catholic University of Toulouse, France. Simone Kotva is Research Fellow at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway and Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2020). Clare Carlisle is Reader in Philosophy and Theology at King’s College London, UK. She is the author of six books on philosophy and philosophers, most recently Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard (2019) and Spinoza’s Religion (2021). She is also the co-translator and editor of Félix Ravaisson’s Of Habit (Bloomsbury, 2007) and the editor of Spinoza’s Ethics, translated by George Eliot (2020).
These late writings by the great Nineteenth French Philosopher Félix Raviasson are not only crucial for understanding his unique theoretical trajectory, but remain extremely illuminating in relation to the history of religion, the meaning of the Bible and the history of Western thought. Above all they tend to show that the questions posed by philosophy cannot be separated from the historical reality of religion. -- John Milbank, University of Nottingham, UK