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Towards a New Anthropology of the Embodied Mind: Maine de Biran’s Physio-Spiritualism from 1800 to the 21st Century
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This exploration in the history of ideas examines the groundbreaking notion of the
embodied mind in its analysis by the French philosopher and politician Maine de Biran (1766–1824) and in its afterlife: consciousness is generated through frequent interaction between the
voluntary and the
spiritual. The conscious,
active self is constituted in its sovereign
autonomy, as free and undivided, by
an inner act of willful resistance, a physical effort towards its own body and the world. For the first time, a multidisciplinary group of senior and junior researchers from Japan, USA and Europe investigate origins and discursive cross-fertilization of this concept around 1800, an intermediary stage between 1870 and 1945, and its influence upon existentialism, phenomenology, and deconstructivism during the postwar-period and beyond, from 1943 to 2010.
Manfred Milz, Ph.D. in History of Art, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. He is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Media, Language and Culture at the University of Regensburg and long-term Visiting Associate Professor at the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture, University of Johannesburg. Milz is the author of
Samuel Beckett und Alberto Giacometti (Königshausen & Neumann 2006), guest-editor of
The European Legacy (2011):
Bergson and European Modernism Reconsidered, editor of
Facing Mental Landscapes (2011), editor of
Painting the Persian Book of Kings Today (millennium anniversary catalogue, Cambridge 2010), and the editor-in-chief of the Brill book series Transcultural Aesthetics, founded in 2021 by the IAA.
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Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1 Maine de Biran: Gender, Sensibility, and the Dynamics of Self in Post-revolutionary France
Sean Quinlan
2 Maine de Biran and Neurology
Larry McGrath
3 On Sympathy and Attention: Maine de Biran, Reader of Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart
Marco Piazza
4 Did Maine de Biran Refute David Hume?
Warren Schmaus
5 Biran and Schelling: “Contact Points” for a Radical Phenomenology
Marc Maesschalck
6 Schopenhauer and the Primal Will—A Radically Phenomenological Reading in Comparison with Maine de Biran
Rolf Kühn
7 Quel œil peut se voir soi-même?: Character and Habit in Stendhal and Maine de Biran
Alessandra Aloisi
8 Jules Lachelier, Reader of Maine de Biran—Contention and Legacy
Denise Vincenti
9 Maine de Biran, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, Henri Bergson: from Concentration to Expansion and Back Again
Benjamin Jacques Bâcle
10 The French Kant (or Fichte)? Brunschvicg, Biran, and the missed Synchronism
Pietro Terzi
11 Maurice Blondel’s Philosophical Debt to Maine de Biran
Michael A. Conway
12 Power(s) of I, Myself: Louis Lavelle and Maine de Biran
Anne Devarieux
13 The First Significant Season of Maine de Biran’s Reception in Italy between Neo-Kantianism and Spiritualistic Realism (1911–1939)
Marco Piazza
14 Maine de Biran in Huxley’s Brave New World: Transcending the Utilitarian through a Spiritual Self
Manfred Milz
15 Voluntary Movement as Reflection or Creation: Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, and Nishida Kitarō
Mika Imono
16 Paul Ricœur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty on the “Primitive Fact” of Subjectivity in Maine de Biran
Eftichis Epirovolakis
17 The Docile Body: Paul Ricœur’s Critique of Biran’s “Primitive Fact”
Scott Davidson
18 “L’Immanence: une vie… ” – Gilles Deleuze, Maine de Biran and the Transcendental Field
Alessandra Aloisi
19 Sensing Resistance? On Jacques Derrida’s Reading of Maine de Biran
Björn Thorsteinsson
20 (An) Unforgettable Maine de Biran? The Biranian Heresy of Michel Henry
Anne Devarieux
21 The Deep Layer of Affectivity—Maine de Biran’s Influence on Marc Richir’s Phenomenological Project
Luis Umbelino
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 Maine De Biran in His Time (Around) 1800
1 Maine de Biran: Gender, Sensibility, and the Dynamics of Self in Post-revolutionary France
Sean Quinlan
2 Maine de Biran and Neurology
Larry McGrath
3 On Sympathy and Attention: Maine de Biran, Reader of Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart
Marco Piazza
4 Did Maine de Biran Refute David Hume?
Warren Schmaus
5 Biran and Schelling: “Contact Points” for a Radical Phenomenology
Marc Maesschalck
6 Schopenhauer and the Primal Will—A Radically Phenomenological Reading in Comparison with Maine de Biran
Rolf Kühn
7 Quel œil peut se voir soi-même?: Character and Habit in Stendhal and Maine de Biran
Alessandra Aloisi
Part 2 Intermediary Biranian Posterities (1870s–1945)
8 Jules Lachelier, Reader of Maine de Biran—Contention and Legacy
Denise Vincenti
9 Maine de Biran, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, Henri Bergson: from Concentration to Expansion and Back Again
Benjamin Jacques Bâcle
10 The French Kant (or Fichte)? Brunschvicg, Biran, and the missed Synchronism
Pietro Terzi
11 Maurice Blondel’s Philosophical Debt to Maine de Biran
Michael A. Conway
12 Power(s) of I, Myself: Louis Lavelle and Maine de Biran
Anne Devarieux
13 The First Significant Season of Maine de Biran’s Reception in Italy between Neo-Kantianism and Spiritualistic Realism (1911–1939)
Marco Piazza
14 Maine de Biran in Huxley’s Brave New World: Transcending the Utilitarian through a Spiritual Self
Manfred Milz
15 Voluntary Movement as Reflection or Creation: Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, and Nishida Kitarō
Mika Imono
Part 3 Postwar Biran-Reception and Beyond: Existentialism; Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (1943–2010)
16 Paul Ricœur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty on the “Primitive Fact” of Subjectivity in Maine de Biran
Eftichis Epirovolakis
17 The Docile Body: Paul Ricœur’s Critique of Biran’s “Primitive Fact”
Scott Davidson
18 “L’Immanence: une vie… ” – Gilles Deleuze, Maine de Biran and the Transcendental Field
Alessandra Aloisi
19 Sensing Resistance? On Jacques Derrida’s Reading of Maine de Biran
Björn Thorsteinsson
20 (An) Unforgettable Maine de Biran? The Biranian Heresy of Michel Henry
Anne Devarieux
21 The Deep Layer of Affectivity—Maine de Biran’s Influence on Marc Richir’s Phenomenological Project
Luis Umbelino
Bibliography
Index
All scholars, students and critics from the disciplines of philosophy, the medical humanities, psychology, physiology, the neurosciences, philosophy, comparative literature and cultural history.