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.

• 9789004515611AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart 1 Maine De Biran in His Time (Around) 18001 Maine de Biran: Gender, Sensibility, and the Dynamics of Self in Post-revolutionary FranceSean Quinlan2 Maine de Biran and NeurologyLarry McGrath3 On Sympathy and Attention: Maine de Biran, Reader of Adam Smith and Dugald StewartMarco Piazza4 Did Maine de Biran Refute David Hume?Warren Schmaus5 Biran and Schelling: “Contact Points” for a Radical PhenomenologyMarc Maesschalck6 Schopenhauer and the Primal Will—A Radically Phenomenological Reading in Comparison with Maine de BiranRolf Kühn7 Quel œil peut se voir soi-même?: Character and Habit in Stendhal and Maine de BiranAlessandra AloisiPart 2 Intermediary Biranian Posterities (1870s–1945)8 Jules Lachelier, Reader of Maine de Biran—Contention and LegacyDenise Vincenti9 Maine de Biran, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, Henri Bergson: from Concentration to Expansion and Back AgainBenjamin Jacques Bâcle10 The French Kant (or Fichte)? Brunschvicg, Biran, and the missed SynchronismPietro Terzi11 Maurice Blondel’s Philosophical Debt to Maine de BiranMichael A. Conway12 Power(s) of I, Myself: Louis Lavelle and Maine de BiranAnne Devarieux13 The First Significant Season of Maine de Biran’s Reception in Italy between Neo-Kantianism and Spiritualistic Realism (1911–1939)Marco Piazza14 Maine de Biran in Huxley’s Brave New World: Transcending the Utilitarian through a Spiritual SelfManfred Milz15 Voluntary Movement as Reflection or Creation: Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, and Nishida KitarōMika ImonoPart 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 BiranEftichis Epirovolakis17 The Docile Body: Paul Ricœur’s Critique of Biran’s “Primitive Fact”Scott Davidson18 “L’Immanence: une vie… ” – Gilles Deleuze, Maine de Biran and the Transcendental FieldAlessandra Aloisi19 Sensing Resistance? On Jacques Derrida’s Reading of Maine de BiranBjörn Thorsteinsson20 (An) Unforgettable Maine de Biran? The Biranian Heresy of Michel HenryAnne Devarieux21 The Deep Layer of Affectivity—Maine de Biran’s Influence on Marc Richir’s Phenomenological ProjectLuis UmbelinoBibliographyIndex

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.

• 9789004515611AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart 1 Maine De Biran in His Time (Around) 18001 Maine de Biran: Gender, Sensibility, and the Dynamics of Self in Post-revolutionary FranceSean Quinlan2 Maine de Biran and NeurologyLarry McGrath3 On Sympathy and Attention: Maine de Biran, Reader of Adam Smith and Dugald StewartMarco Piazza4 Did Maine de Biran Refute David Hume?Warren Schmaus5 Biran and Schelling: “Contact Points” for a Radical PhenomenologyMarc Maesschalck6 Schopenhauer and the Primal Will—A Radically Phenomenological Reading in Comparison with Maine de BiranRolf Kühn7 Quel œil peut se voir soi-même?: Character and Habit in Stendhal and Maine de BiranAlessandra AloisiPart 2 Intermediary Biranian Posterities (1870s–1945)8 Jules Lachelier, Reader of Maine de Biran—Contention and LegacyDenise Vincenti9 Maine de Biran, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, Henri Bergson: from Concentration to Expansion and Back AgainBenjamin Jacques Bâcle10 The French Kant (or Fichte)? Brunschvicg, Biran, and the missed SynchronismPietro Terzi11 Maurice Blondel’s Philosophical Debt to Maine de BiranMichael A. Conway12 Power(s) of I, Myself: Louis Lavelle and Maine de BiranAnne Devarieux13 The First Significant Season of Maine de Biran’s Reception in Italy between Neo-Kantianism and Spiritualistic Realism (1911–1939)Marco Piazza14 Maine de Biran in Huxley’s Brave New World: Transcending the Utilitarian through a Spiritual SelfManfred Milz15 Voluntary Movement as Reflection or Creation: Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, and Nishida KitarōMika ImonoPart 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 BiranEftichis Epirovolakis17 The Docile Body: Paul Ricœur’s Critique of Biran’s “Primitive Fact”Scott Davidson18 “L’Immanence: une vie… ” – Gilles Deleuze, Maine de Biran and the Transcendental FieldAlessandra Aloisi19 Sensing Resistance? On Jacques Derrida’s Reading of Maine de BiranBjörn Thorsteinsson20 (An) Unforgettable Maine de Biran? The Biranian Heresy of Michel HenryAnne Devarieux21 The Deep Layer of Affectivity—Maine de Biran’s Influence on Marc Richir’s Phenomenological ProjectLuis UmbelinoBibliographyIndex

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.

• 9789004515611AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionPart 1 Maine De Biran in His Time (Around) 18001 Maine de Biran: Gender, Sensibility, and the Dynamics of Self in Post-revolutionary FranceSean Quinlan2 Maine de Biran and NeurologyLarry McGrath3 On Sympathy and Attention: Maine de Biran, Reader of Adam Smith and Dugald StewartMarco Piazza4 Did Maine de Biran Refute David Hume?Warren Schmaus5 Biran and Schelling: “Contact Points” for a Radical PhenomenologyMarc Maesschalck6 Schopenhauer and the Primal Will—A Radically Phenomenological Reading in Comparison with Maine de BiranRolf Kühn7 Quel œil peut se voir soi-même?: Character and Habit in Stendhal and Maine de BiranAlessandra AloisiPart 2 Intermediary Biranian Posterities (1870s–1945)8 Jules Lachelier, Reader of Maine de Biran—Contention and LegacyDenise Vincenti9 Maine de Biran, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, Henri Bergson: from Concentration to Expansion and Back AgainBenjamin Jacques Bâcle10 The French Kant (or Fichte)? Brunschvicg, Biran, and the missed SynchronismPietro Terzi11 Maurice Blondel’s Philosophical Debt to Maine de BiranMichael A. Conway12 Power(s) of I, Myself: Louis Lavelle and Maine de BiranAnne Devarieux13 The First Significant Season of Maine de Biran’s Reception in Italy between Neo-Kantianism and Spiritualistic Realism (1911–1939)Marco Piazza14 Maine de Biran in Huxley’s Brave New World: Transcending the Utilitarian through a Spiritual SelfManfred Milz15 Voluntary Movement as Reflection or Creation: Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, and Nishida KitarōMika ImonoPart 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 BiranEftichis Epirovolakis17 The Docile Body: Paul Ricœur’s Critique of Biran’s “Primitive Fact”Scott Davidson18 “L’Immanence: une vie… ” – Gilles Deleuze, Maine de Biran and the Transcendental FieldAlessandra Aloisi19 Sensing Resistance? On Jacques Derrida’s Reading of Maine de BiranBjörn Thorsteinsson20 (An) Unforgettable Maine de Biran? The Biranian Heresy of Michel HenryAnne Devarieux21 The Deep Layer of Affectivity—Maine de Biran’s Influence on Marc Richir’s Phenomenological ProjectLuis UmbelinoBibliographyIndex