Transcendence and the concrete : selected writings / Jean Wahl ; edited by Alan D. Schrift and Ian Alexander Moore.

Author
Wahl, Jean André, 1888-1974 [Browse]
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Description
viii, 291 pages ; 24 cm

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    Perspectives in continental philosophy [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "Jean Wahl (1888-1974), once considered by the likes of Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gabriel Marcel to be among the greatest French philosophers, has today nearly been forgotten outside France. Yet his influence on French philosophical thought can hardly be overestimated. Levinas wrote that "during over a half century of teaching and research, [Wahl] was the life force of the academic, extra-academic, and even, to a degree, anti-academic philosophy necessary to a great culture." And Deleuze, for his part, commented that "Apart from Sartre, who remained caught none the less in the trap of the verb to be, the most important philosopher in France was Jean Wahl." Besides engaging with the likes of Bataille, Bergson, Deleuze, Derrida, Levinas, Maritain, and Sartre, Wahl also played a significant role, in some cases almost singlehandedly, in introducing French philosophy to movements like existentialism, and American pragmatism and literature, and thinkers like Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, and Heidegger. Yet Wahl was also an original philosopher and poet in his own right. This volume of selections from Wahl's philosophical writings makes a selection of his most important work available to the English-speaking philosophical community for the first time."-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Existence, experience, and transcendence : an introduction to Jean Wahl
    • Preface to Toward the concrete
    • Commentary on a passage from Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit
    • Hegel and Kierkegaard
    • Heidegger and Kierkegaard : an investigation into the original elements of Heidegger's philosophy
    • The problem of choice : existence and transcendence in Jaspers's philosophy
    • Subjectivity and transcendence
    • Appendix : Jean Wahl's letter to Martin Heidegger, December 12, 1937
    • Nietzsche and the death of God : a note on Jaspers's Nietzsche
    • Poetry and metaphysics
    • Order and disorder in Nietzsche's thought
    • Experience and transcendence; or, an ontological journey.
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    ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org
    ISBN
    • 9780823273010 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0823273016 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780823273027 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0823273024 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016027260
    OCLC
    938992076
    Hdl
    • 2027/heb.33781
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