Of Habit

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

AvFelix Ravaisson

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Flix Ravaissons seminal philosophical essay, Of Habit, was first published in French in 1838. It traces the origins and development of habit and proposes the principle of habit as the foundation of human nature. This metaphysics of habit steers a path between materialism and idealism in one of the best and most sophisticated treatments of the topic. Ravaissons work was pivotal in the development of European thought and has had a significant influence on such key thinkers as Proust, Bergson, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and Deleuze. This edition makes this remarkable and hugely important work available to an English-speaking audience for the first time. Clare Carlisle and Mark Sinclair provide a comprehensive introduction to Ravaissons life, works and enduring influence that clearly situates Ravaissons text within the European philosophical tradition. The translation also includes a thorough commentary on the text that illuminates its arguments and its context.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-11-07
Mått129 x 198 x 18 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor160
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781847061973
ÖversättareClare Carlisle, Mark Sinclair, Clare (King's College London UK) Carlisle, Dr Mark (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) Sinclair

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Felix Ravaisson (1813-1900) was a French philosopher who held a number of prestigious posts, including that of Curator of Classical Antiquities at the Louvre. His work influenced generations of European philosophers, including Henri Bergson, Martin Heidegger and Gilles Deleuze. Clare Carlisle is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is the author of Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Becoming (SUNY Press, 2005). Mark Sinclair is a Research Fellow in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Heidegger, Aristotle and the Work of Art (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006) and translator of Jean Beaufret's Dialogue with Heidegger: Greek Philosophy (Indiana University Press, 2006).

'This bears a modest title: Of Habit. But the author sets forth in it a whole philosophy of nature. What is nature? How is one to imagine its inner workings? What does it conceal under the regular succession of cause and effect? ...Ravaisson seeks the solution of this very general problem in a very concrete intuition, the one that we have of our own condition when we contract a habit...These ideas, like many we owe to Ravaisson, have become classic.' Henri Bergson