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- Series
- Phaenomenologica
- Date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer
- Place
- Dordrecht
- Pages
- 338
- ISBN
- 978-94-007-4640-4
Christian Dupont
Burns Librarian and associate university librarian for special collections at Boston College. He directs the John J. Burns Library for Rare Books & Special Collections and University Archives. His primary research interests relate to the history of libraries and collecting. His most recent publications and presentations concern the formation of institutional collections relating to Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy and their role in the reception of Italian literature in the United States. He has also recently published a book on the reception of phenomenology in French philosophy and religious thought for the Phaenomenologica series.
Phenomenology in French philosophy
early encounters
Christian Dupont
This work investigates the early encounters of French philosophers and religious thinkers with the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Following an introductory chapter addressing context and methodology, Chapter 2 argues that Henri Bergson's insights into lived duration and intuition and Maurice Blondel's genetic description of action functioned as essential precursors to the French reception of phenomenology. Chapter 3 details the presentations of Husserl and his followers by three successive pairs of French academic philosophers: Léon Noël and Victor Delbos, Lev Shestov and Jean Hering, and Bernard Groethuysen and Georges Gurvitch. Chapter 4 then explores the appropriation of Bergsonian and Blondelian phenomenological insights by Catholic theologians Édouard Le Roy and Pierre Rousselot. Chapter 5 examines applications and critiques of phenomenology by French religious philosophers, including Jean Hering, Joseph Maréchal, and neo-Thomists like Jacques Maritain. A concluding chapter expounds the principal finding that philosophical and theological receptions of phenomenology in France prior to 1939 proceeded independently due to differences in how Bergson and Blondel were perceived by French philosophers and religious thinkers and their respective orientations to the Cartesian and Aristotelian/Thomist intellectual traditions.
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