During the nineteenth century, the history of philosophy established itself in France as a central discipline within the academic institutions. This process, which rested on the intellectual and political influence of Victor Cousin (1792-1867), coincided with the development of an interpretative scheme that gave the Renaissance as philosophical epoch a controversial status characterized by conceptual inferiority. This volume sheds light on the ideological implications of the debates on the Renaissance in nineteenth-century France. It offers a comprehensive approach to the scholarly reconstructions and polemical uses of the Renaissance by developing a political and transnational rereading of the nineteenth-century French practices of the history of philosophy.
9 Les lettres de Christian Bartholmèss à Victor Cousin (1846â1856)
âMario Meliadò
10 Les lettres de Charles Waddington à Victor Cousin (1844â1863)
âDominique Couzinet
11 Victor Cousin et la Renaissance. Annexe photographique
âLuc Courtaux, Dominique Couzinet and Mario Meliadò
The book is addressed, on the one hand, to specialists in Renaissance thought and its modern reception and, on the other hand, to historians of nineteenth-century French philosophy and historiography.