Copleston’s ninth volume of his A History of Philosophy masterfully takes in over 150 years of French thought from the French Revolution to the mid-twentieth century.
Frederick Copleston was Professor of the History of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Theology at London University. This eleven-volume work is one of the most remarkable single-handed scholarly enterprises of modern times. Volume 9 covers Henri Bergson, Albert Camus, Auguste Comte, Maine de Biran, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jean-Paul Sartre.
This volume includes history from the ideologists, to positivists such as Comte, to the singular work of Bergson, to philosophers of science, religion and politics, to Sartre’s existentialism, and finally to the beginning of the dramatic and controversial changes that developed in French post-war philosophy with phenomenology and structuralism.
Brimming with detail and enthusiasm, A History of Philosophy gives an accessible account of philosophers from all eras and explains their works in relation to other philosophers. Each volume is an ideal guide for students studying specific eras and as a set offers a complete and unrivalled overview of the entire western philosophical tradition.
By:
Frederick Copleston
Imprint: Doubleday
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 638g
ISBN: 9780826469038
ISBN 10: 0826469035
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 01 June 2003
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface PART I: FROM THE REVOLUTION TO AUGUSTE COMTE I The Traditionalist Reaction to the Revolution II The Ideologists and Maine de Biran III Eclecticism IV Social Philosophy V Auguste Comte PART II: FROM AUGUSTE COMTE TO HENRI BERGSON VI Positivism in France VII Neo-criticism and Idealism VIII The Spiritualist Movement IX Henri Bergson (1) X Henri Bergson (2) PART III: FROM BERGSON TO SARTRE XI Philosophy and Christian Apologetics XII Thomism in France XIII Philosophy of Science XIV Philosophy of Values, Metaphysics, Personalism XV Two Religious Thinkers XVI The Existentialism of Sartre (1) XVII The Existentialism of Sartre (2) XVIII The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty A Short Bibliography Index
Reviews for History of Philosophy Volume 9: 19th and 20th Century French Philosophy
A monumental history . . . learned, lucid, patient and comprehensive. * New Statesman * We can only applaud at the end of each act and look forward to applauding again at the final curtain. * Times Literary Supplement * Lucid and luminous ... a most remarkable achievement, of which any scholar in the world of any field would justly be proud. * Church Times *
