Felix Ravaisson
Description
Félix Ravaisson: Fragments on Philosophy and Religion comprises translations from Ravaisson's notes on the history and philosophy of religion, dating from 1850 to 1900.
Addressing the history of religions, ancient Greek thought, Christian theology, and the philosophy of revelation, these texts are brought to an English audience for the first time here, as the editors place the fragments in the context of Ravaisson's philosophy as a whole.
These unpublished fragments show Ravaisson's lifelong grappling with fundamental questions of theology. They demonstrate that the research into mystery religions, mysticism and the Christian liturgy to which he devoted the end of his long career was not a rupture with the philosophy of his early years. In these texts, Ravaisson elaborated his philosophy of revelation, sacrifice and love, and continued the story he had begun with his study of Aristotle.
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Persons
Victor Emma-Adamah is a Research Associate at the Unité de Recherche: Culture, Éthique, Religion et Société (UR CERES) of the Catholic University of Toulouse, France.
Simone Kotva is Research Fellow at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway and Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Clare Carlisle is Reader in Philosophy and Theology at King's College London, UK. She is the author of six books on philosophy and philosophers, most recently Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard (2019) and Spinoza's Religion (2021). She is also the co-translator and editor of Félix Ravaisson's Of Habit (Bloomsbury, 2007) and the editor of Spinoza's Ethics, translated by George Eliot (2020).
Content
Acknowledgements
1. Preface
Andrea Bellantone, Catholic University of Toulouse, France
translated from the French by Victor Emma-Adamah
2. Editors' Introduction
Simone Kotva (University of Cambridge, UK) Clare Carlisle (Kings College London, UK) and Victor Emma-Adamah (University of Cambridge, UK)
3. Félix Ravaisson: Fragments on Philosophy and Religion
Translated from the French by Victor Emma-Adamah
3.1 The Philosophy of Revelation
3.2 Christianity
3.3 Ancient Religion
3.4 Greek Philosophy
3.5 Metaphysical questions
3.6 Philosophical Method
3.7 Nature and Art
3.8 Modern Philosophy
4. Afterword
Catherine Pickstock, University of Cambridge, UK
Index