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 | | The Idealist Illusion and Other Essays - Translation and Introduction by Fiachra Long, Annotations by Fiachra Long and Claude Troisfontaines (Studies in ... 22) (Studies in Philosophy and Religion) by Maurice Blondel , Fiachra Long (Translator) ISBN-10: 9780792366546 ISBN-10: 0-7923-6654-9 ISBN-13: 9780792366546 ISBN-13: 978-0-7923-6654-6 Hardcover 2000-10 Springer Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book presents three of Blondel's most important articles, which have not yet appeared in English. These are Idealist Illusion (1898), The Elementary Principle of a Logic of the Moral Life (1903), and The Starting Point of Philosophy (1906). These essays became significant in Blondel's transition from the early Action (1893) to his later works on Thinking (1934), Being and Beings (1935), and Action (1936-7). They offer evidence for and explain the nature of the pragmatism in Blondel's thought, which developed as he began to articulate the logic of action in response to the criticism that he was an idealist. The Introduction argues that Blondel's measured response to this charge led to the development of a metaphysics of the concrete life and allied him closely to the commonsense school of Reid. These articles should interest students of philosophy and theology who want to explore the theme of concrete experience. | ||