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Idea of Beginning in Jules Lequier's Philosophy

Idea of Beginning in Jules Lequier's Philosophy

Deslandes, Ghislain
Viney, Donald Wayne

Hardcover

Series: Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1666927201
ISBN13: 9781666927207
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Feb 15 2023
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Idea of Beginning in Jules Lequier's Philosophy analyzes the work of an author mostly unknown in Anglophone countries, but who greatly influenced the trajectory of French philosophy over the last two centuries. Jules Lequier, in The Search for a First Truth, argues that beginning such a search is the goal towards which philosophy must tend. To achieve this, Lequier established a postulate, that of freedom against necessity, and set out a program as an inaugural gesture: TO MAKE, not to become, but to make, and, in making, TO MAKE ONESELF. By the fertility of possible beginnings, the making in Lequier is always first and radical. As Ghislain Deslandes reveals in this exploration of Lequier's work, that something new is possible in philosophy after all, and that it should even be possible to invent it in other fields, applying the principle that everything is to be relearned, and started again, but in another truth. Deslandes explores parallels between the classical antiphilosophers Pascal and Kierkegaard and Lequier, whose importance to French philosophy is today better documented and more widely recognized.

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