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This paintings investigates the early encounters of French philosophers and spiritual thinkers with the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Following an introductory bankruptcy addressing context and method, bankruptcy 2 argues that Henri Bergson’s insights into lived length and instinct and Maurice Blondel’s genetic description of motion functioned as crucial precursors to the French reception of phenomenology. bankruptcy three information the shows of Husserl and his fans by means of 3 successive pairs of French educational philosophers: Léon Noël and Victor Delbos, Lev Shestov and Jean Hering, and Bernard Groethuysen and Georges Gurvitch. bankruptcy four then explores the appropriation of Bergsonian and Blondelian phenomenological insights via Catholic theologians Édouard Le Roy and Pierre Rousselot. bankruptcy five examines purposes and opinions of phenomenology by way of French non secular philosophers, together with Jean Hering, Joseph Maréchal, and neo-Thomists like Jacques Maritain. A concluding bankruptcy expounds the primary discovering that philosophical and theological receptions of phenomenology in France sooner than 1939 proceeded independently because of adjustments in how Bergson and Blondel have been perceived through French philosophers and spiritual thinkers and their respective orientations to the Cartesian and Aristotelian/Thomist highbrow traditions.

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1926. Phénoménologie et philosophie religieuse. Étude sur la théorie de la connaissance religieuse. Paris: Alcan. Hering, Jean. 1950a. La phénoménologie en France. In L’activité philosophique en France et aux États-Unis, ed. Marvin Farber. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. Hering, Jean. 1950b. Phenomenology in France. In Philosophic thought in France and the United States. Essays representing major trends in contemporary French and American philosophy, ed. Marvin Farber. Buffalo: University of Buffalo Publications in Philosophy.

Finally, philosophers who participated in the spiritualist current of French philosophy focused attention on the lived experiences of consciousness and employed descriptive methodologies that would find a counterpart in those used by Husserl. Sufficient evidence is lacking, however, to suggest that the principal proponents of spiritualism in France during the midnineteenth century—Ravaisson, Lachelier, and Boutroux—contributed significantly to the formation of the specific concepts and methodologies that would eventually link them with the phenomenological movement in France.

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