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The Idea of Beginning in Jules Lequier's Philosophy
The Idea of Beginning in Jules Lequier's Philosophy
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The Idea of Beginning in Jules Lequier's Philosophy analyzes the work of an author mostly unknown in Anglophone countries, but who greatly influenced the trajectory of French philosophy over the last two centuries. Jules Lequier, in The Search for a First Truth, argues that beginning such a search is the goal towards which philosophy must tend. To achieve this, Lequier established a postulate, that of freedom against necessity, and set out a program as an inaugural gesture: “TO MAKE, not to become, but to make, and, in making, TO MAKE ONESELF.” By the fertility of possible beginnings, the making in Lequier is always first and radical. As Ghislain Deslandes reveals in this exploration of Lequier’s work, that something new is possible in philosophy after all, and that it should even be possible to invent it in other fields, applying the principle that "everything is to be relearned, and started again, but in another truth." Deslandes explores parallels between the “classical” antiphilosophers Pascal and Kierkegaard and Lequier, whose importance to French philosophy is today better documented and more widely recognized.
Table of Contents
Donald Wayne Viney
Preface: Historical Landmarks
Introduction
Chapter I. Searching
Chapter II. Making
Chapter III. Beginning
Conclusion
Product details
| Published | 19 Dec 2022 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 1 |
| ISBN | 9781978786028 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Series | Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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