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- Title
LA «SYMPHONIE MÉTAPHYSIQUE» DE VICTOR COUSIN: ENTRE POÉTIQUE ET PROSAÏQUE.
- Authors
BÂCLE, BENJAMIN
- Abstract
Although it is largely forgotten today, Victor Cousin's philosophy was immensely successful in early nin eteenth-century France, thanks to its endeavour to conciliate all the philosophical trends of its time in order to promote the moral, political, but also aesthetic regeneration of French society. As soon as it became involved with the July Monarchy (1830-1848) and started providing the regime with an ideological justification, Cousin's Ecclecticism proved more conservative and constraining rather than liberating and fulfilling, and considerably slowed down the development of scientific research in France. What the failure of this enterprise suggests is that philosophy and poetry, instead of being reified within a 'total' system like Cousin's, should be seen as the two complementary sides of the same attitude to life, an attitude fuelled by a deep sense of wonder and creativity, both infinitely fluid and cautiously optimistic, in the face of an ever changing Otherness.
- Subjects
FRANCE; RESEARCH &; development; SCIENTIFIC development; COUSINS; MONARCHY; PHILOSOPHY; SCIENTISM
- Publication
Mélanges francophones, 2017, Vol 11, Issue 14, p139
- ISSN
1843-8539
- Publication type
Article