{"product_id":"fzslix-ravaisson-french-philosophy-in-the-nineteenth-century-9780192898845","title":"Félix Ravaisson: French Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century","description":"Félix Ravaisson's \u003cem\u003eFrench Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most influential and pivotal texts of modern French thought. Commissioned by the Minister of Public Instruction as one of a series of reports to record the progress of the French sciences and humanities for Paris' second world fair, the 1867 \u003cem\u003eExposition universelle d'arts et d'industrie\u003c\/em\u003e, it was published with the others the following year. In the report Ravaisson argues, with verve and generosity, and with an unparalleled command of the century's intellectual developments, that the myriad voices in nineteenth-century French thinking were beginning to form a chorus, one that was advancing towards a new, more concrete form of spiritualist philosophy able to resist materialist, mechanist and sensualist doctrines while incorporating recent developments in the life-sciences. As Henri Bergson noted, it effected a \"profound change of orientation in university philosophy\" and for decades afterwards students learnt its concluding sections by heart in order to pass public examinations. Bergson's own \u003cem\u003eCreative Evolution\u003c\/em\u003e, which made him the world's most celebrated living philosopher at the end of the long nineteenth century, is, with its psychological interpretation of biological evolution, a direct expression of the new philosophical orientation that Ravaisson had divined in the report.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Sinclair\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e British Society for the History of Philosophy: New Texts in the History of Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.43h x 6.41w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192898845","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42711256170633,"sku":"9780192898845","price":84.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_dd236c8a-0f88-4d10-8b34-76bc923ace9f.jpg?v=1719565425","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/fzslix-ravaisson-french-philosophy-in-the-nineteenth-century-9780192898845","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}