Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France: Volume 1 - Texts and Materials (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 246)

Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France is a two-volume work that documents the French reception of G. W. F. Hegel and F. W. J. Schelling from 1801 to 1848. It shows that the story of the "French Hegel" didn't begin with Wahl and Kojève by giving readers a solid understanding of the various ways in which German Idealism impacted nineteenth-century French philosophy, as well as providing the first ever English-language translations of excerpts from the most important philosophical texts of the era. Inside volume one, readers will find a number of interpretative frameworks to help them get to grips with this neglected field in the history of ideas. In addition to excerpted translations and a narrative of Hegel’s and Schelling’s fate in France during the early nineteenth century, this volume includes an introduction on transnational reception history, as well as an analytical catalogue of the translations of their work produced in French at this time, of thepublications which appropriated or interrogated their philosophical legacy, and of the journals, institutional structures and other mechanisms of dissemination that brought Hegel’s and Schelling’s philosophy into France. The book thus details the ways in which French philosophers of the period took up the debates and concepts of German Idealism, transformed them or rejected them. In this way, it aims to contribute to a reversal of the serious neglect of early nineteenth-century French thought in English-language scholarship and, in so doing, goes beyond a nation-based narrative of the history of philosophy. Figures covered in the volumes include major philosophers such as Cousin, Leroux, Proudhon, Quinet, Ravaisson, Renouvier and Véra, as well as more neglected figures, like Barchou de Penhoën, Bénard, Lèbre, Lerminier, Pictet, and Willm. Contents Chapter 1: Editors’ Introduction: Mutation, Contestation, Hybridisation: Hegel, Schelling and French Philosophy, 1801–1848 1.1 A (Relatively) Forgotten History 1.2 Transnational Philosophical Encounters in the Nineteenth Century 1.3 Hybrid Stories 1.4 Subjective Idealism and Absolute Idealism in France 1.5 Structure Bibliography Chapter 2: Translators’ Note Bibliography Chapter 3: Landmarks 3.1 Beginnings 3.1.1 Before 1805: Villers to Degérando 3.1.2 Ancillon 3.1.3 Staël and Maine de Biran 3.2 Victor Cousin and the Eclectic School 3.2.1 Journeys Through Germany 3.2.2 Cousin’s Idealist Decade, 1818–29 3.2.3 The Fragments Philosophiques of 1833 and Its Aftermath 3.2.4 1838 and After: Cousin Against Michelet 3.2.5 German Idealism and the Eclectic School: Willm and Barchou de Penhoën 3.3 Attacks on Cousin’s Version of Absolute Idealism 3.3.1 Lerminier 3.3.2 Heine and Lechevalier 3.3.3 Hinrichs 3.3.4 Leroux’s Réfutation de l’éclectisme 3.4 Post-Hegelian France 3.4.1 “The Hegelians of Saint-Simonianism” 3.4.2 The Arrival of Left Hegelianism 3.4.3 Proudhon 3.4.4 Pantheism and Anti-Hegelianism: From Bautain to Maret and Ott 3.5 Turns to Schelling 3.5.1 Ravaisson 3.5.2 Leroux’s Defence of Schelling 3.5.3 Lamennais 3.5.4 The “Lausanne School”: Secrétan and Lèbre 3.6 Academic Philosophy and German Idealism at the End of the 1840s 3.6.1 The Importation of German Aesthetics: From Jules Michelet to Charles Bénard 3.6.2 Vera 3.6.3 Later Generations: Taine and Saisset Bibliography Chapter 4: French Translations and Editions 4.1 Schelling-Translations 4.1.1 Adolphe Pictet (Trans.), Des Divinités de la Samothrace, in Bibliothèque universelle, 1822 4.1.2 Joseph Willm (Trans.), Sur les objections ordinaires contre l’étude de la philosophie, in Nouvelle revue germanique, 1830 4.1.3 Joseph Willm (Trans.), M. Schelling et M. Cousin, in Nouvelle revue germanique, 1833 4.1.4 Eduard Kolloff (Trans.), Philosophie de la mythologie par Schelling, in Revue du Nord, 1835 4.1.5 Félix Ravaisson (Trans.), Jugement de Schelling sur la philosophie de M. Cousin et sur l’état de la philosophie allemande en général, in Nouvelle revue germanique, October 1835 4.1.6 Joseph Willm (Trans.), Jugement de M. de Schelling sur la philosophie de M. Cousin, Paris/Strasbourg, 1835 4.1.7 Pierre Leroux (Trans.). Discours de Schelling à Berlin, in Revue indépendante, 1842 4.1.8 Paul Grimblot (Trans.), Système de l’idéalisme transcendantal, suivi de: (1) D’un jugement sur la philosophie de M. Victor Cousin et sur l’état de la philosophie française et de la philosophie allemande, et (2) Du discours prononcé 4.1.9 Claude Husson (Trans.), Bruno, ou du principe divin et naturel des choses, Paris, 1845 4.1.10 Charles Bénard (Trans.), Écrits philosophiques et morceaux propres à donner une idée générale de son système, Paris, 1847 4.2 Hegel-Translations 4.2.1 Anon. (Trans.), Système d’Hegel sur l’État, in Revue européenne, 1832. 4.2.2 Charles Bénard (Trans.), Cours d'esthétique, 5 vols, Paris/Nancy, 1840–52 4.2.3 Vera After 1848 4.3 Texts and Editions Bibliography Chapter 5: Mechanisms of Dissemination 5.1 Journals and Encyclopedias 5.1.1 Le Globe 5.1.2 Le Catholique 5.1.3 Revue des Deux Mondes 5.1.4 Revue encylopédique 5.1.5 Revue européenne 5.1.6 Nouvelle Revue Germanique 5.1.7 L’Europe littéraire 5.1.8 Revue du progrès social 5.1.9 Revue du Nord 5.1.10 Revue suisse 5.1.11 La Revue indépendante 5.1.12 Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher 5.1.13 La Revue nouvelle 5.1.14 La Liberté de penser 5.1.15 Dictionnaire des sciences philosophiques, 6 vols, ed. Adolphe Franck 1844–52 5.1.16 Nouvelle Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire philosophique, scientifique, littéraire et industriel, offrant le tableau des connaissances humaines au XIXe siècle, 8 vols incomplete, ed. Pierre Leroux and Jean Reynaud, 1834–47 5.2 Obituaries 5.2.1 Revue de Paris 5.2.2 Nouvelle revue germanique 5.2.3 Cousin’s Incomplete Obituary 5.3 Académie des sciences morales et politiques 5.3.1 International Membership 5.3.2 The 1833 Prize 5.3.3 The 1836 Prize: Context 5.3.4 The 1836 Prize: Rémusat’s Report 5.3.5 Willm’s Histoire de la philosophie allemande depuis Kant jusqu’à Hegel 5.4 Crossing the Rhine: Visits and Letters 5.4.1 Research Visits 5.4.2 Epistolary Networks Bibliography Chapter 6: Chronology of Key Works Bibliography Chapter 7: Biographical Glossary Bibliography Index