Action (1893): Essay on a Critique of Life and a Science of Practice - Hardcover

Blondel, Maurice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0268006059 ISBN 13: 9780268006051

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 1984

Synopsis

Action was once a prominent theme in philosophical reflection. It figured prominently in Aristotelian philosophy, and the medieval Scholastics built some of their key adages around it. But by the time Maurice Blondel came to focus on it for his own philosophical reflection, it had all but disappeared from the philosophical vocabulary. It is no longer possible or legitimate to ignore action in philosophy as it was in France when Blondel appeared on the scene in 1882, when at the age of 21 he first began to focus on action as a dissertation subject, and in 1893, when he defended and published the dissertation now presented here for the English reader.

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Maurice Blondel (1861–1949) was born in Dijon, France and educated at the École Normale Supérieure. Blondel’s defended his thesis, L’action in 1893 at the Sorbonne. Blondel at first was refused a university position on the grounds of having taken an improperly religious position in his philosophy, but finally received a professorship in Aix in 1897.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0268006059
• ISBN 13: 9780268006051
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480