Spiritualism and Phenomenology

The Case of Maine de Biran

Emmanuel Falque, Sarah Horton

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English

Cascade Books
08 April 2025

Phenomenology & Existentialism; Philosophy of mind

Series: Things Themselves

The conflict between spiritualism and phenomenology will no longer take place. Better, it is through their encounter and their backlash that a new fruitfulness for thought will develop. The case of Maine de Biran thus comes to exemplify a new beginning a la francaise for metaphysics on the one hand and for phenomenology on the other. But the philosopher from Bergerac (in the Dordogne) is most often read according to his explicit meaning and not his implicit one. He is supposedly the thinker of ""freedom and consciousness"" (spiritualism) or of the ""inner self and the lived body"" (phenomenology). But these readings forget the exceptions to the primitive fact of ""internal effort"" (illness, sleep, sleepwalking, madness, the body-object, the outer self . . .), which mark Biran's oeuvre as one of the summits of a thought that escapes phenomenality and confers a real consistency upon corporeality. A new ""Columbus of metaphysics,"" as he himself names himself, Maine de Biran, read ""otherwise,"" initiates for today a new beginning for thought.

By: Emmanuel Falque
Translated by: Sarah Horton
Imprint: Cascade Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9798385235520
Series: Things Themselves
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 08 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emmanuel Falque is the honorary dean of the Philosophy Faculty of the Institut Catholique de Paris. A specialist in patristic and medieval philosophy, in phenomenology, and in philosophy of religion. His most recent books include The Book of Experience (2024), By Way of Obstacles (2022), and Nothing to It (2020).