Delphine Antoine-Mahut
Biographic Data
| ID | 4291008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Delphine Antoine-Mahut |
| GIVEN NAMES | Delphine |
| FAMILY NAME | Antoine-Mahut |
| SIGNATURE | ANTOINE-MAHUT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | École Normale Supérieure de Lyon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8254-3097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Metaphysics and the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century France
International audience
Transformer le monde par la métaphysique cartésienne: La révolution au bon sens du terme selon Victor Cousin
Condillac and His Reception: On the Origin and Nature of Human Abilities
International audience
Figures de Descartes dans l’historiographie française au xix e siècle
Les mobilisations de la figure de Descartes au xixe siècle en France dessinent une ligne de partage claire entre le spiritualisme institutionnellement dominant de Victor Cousin, celui du dualisme substantiel et des preuves de l’existence de Dieu, et d’autres formes de spiritualismes, soucieux de promouvoir une psychologie empiriste et de faire droit aux contenus positifs. L’historiographie du cartésianisme constitue ainsi le lieu d’observation pr…
Comment éveiller l’âme de Victor: Le problème des idées innées de Descartes à Itard
Dans l’historiographie des enfants sauvages, le Dr Jean Itard est un point de départ et Victor de l’Aveyron, un cas paradigmatique. Or, c’est aussi l’aboutissement d’une longue histoire métaphysique : la nature de l’âme humaine est le problème ontologique et épistémologique central. Un épisode décisif du xviie siècle fait ainsi référence au xixe siècle : si tout homme possède une idée innée de son âme, comment cette idée s’actualise-t-elle ? Inve…
Introduction to French spiritualism in the nineteenth century
International audience
The ‘empowered king’ of French spiritualism: Théodore Jouffroy
There is a paradox in the fate of nineteenth-century French philosophy: the ‘eclecticism' or ‘spiritualism' that was university philosophy, championed by Victor Cousin – ‘the king of the philosophers' – and commander of a ‘regiment' of other teacher-philosophers who docilely disseminated his doctrine, is almost entirely absent from today’s canon. Between the familiar figures of Maine de Biran and Bergson, the work of Comte or Tocqueville might be…
Laurent Fédi . Kant, une passion française. 1795-1940 . Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, Georg Olms Verlag, 2018, 690 p
The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism
A collection of fifty essays on Descartes and his influence in the seventeenth century. The first section is devoted to various aspects of Descartes’s philosophy (biography, epistemology, metaphysics, natural philosophy (science), mathematics, philosophical theology, etc.). The second section is devoted to Descartes’s influence, especially Cartesians and the Cartesian movement, in France, the Netherlands, Italy, England and elsewhere. The third s…
Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism
The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading scholars of early modern philosophy. The first part focuses on the various aspects of Descartes's biography (including his background, intellectual contexts, writings, and correspondence)…
Une philosophie française sans philosophie française. L’éclectisme de Victor Cousin
Victor Cousin presented his philosophy as an eclecticism, incorporating the best materials from the Scottish empiricism of Reid and Dugald-Stewart, the German Idealism of Kant and Hegel and, the French psychology of Laromiguière and Royer-Collard. In this conception, the figure of Descartes is represented as a nationalist standard and the enduring image of a rationalist engaged in a struggle against all forms of sensualist empiricism - or worse, …
Pierre-Daniel Huet, Skeptic Critic of Cartesianism and Defender of Religion
Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630–1721) was Cartesianism’s most implacable critic ever. And more than any other critic, he raised the Cartesian issues that have been of perennial interest: the method of doubt, the cogito , clarity and distinctness as criteria of truth, the natural light, the circularity of the Meditations , proofs of God’s existence, etc. Moreover, under the term Cartesianism his Censura Philosophiae Cartesianae (1689) attacks both Descar…
The Condemnations of Cartesian Natural Philosophy Under Louis XIV (1661–91)
The interdiction of the teaching of Descartes’s natural philosophy pronounced by Louis XIV in 1671 was followed by a wave of official condemnations. The first part of this chapter gathers together the facts that led some historians to speak of the persecution of Cartesianism. In the second part, it is argued that various causes explain these condemnations, first by relativizing the importance of the doctrinal question of the Eucharist, second by …
Introduction: Debates on Experience and Empiricism in Nineteenth Century France
The lasting effects of the debate over canon-formation during the 1980s affected the whole field of Humanities, which became increasingly engaged in interrogating the origin and function of the Western canon (Gorak 1991; Searle 1990). In philosophy, a great deal of criticism was, as a result, directed at the traditional narrative of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophies—a critique informed by postcolonialism (Park 2013) as well as femi…
Philosophizing with a historiographical figure: Descartes in Degérando’s Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie (1804 and 1847)
The writings by the ‘state philosophers’ of nineteenth-century France are often seen, either as entirely driven by political or ideological concerns, or reduced to mere history of philosophy. Hence, ironically, those who established the philosophical canon that still now informs philosophy teaching in France were themselves excluded from that canon. Using the heuristic concept of a philosophical figure, this article intends to show how, for these…
Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in His Reception
To Replant and Uproot. Typology of the Cartesian Tree of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century French Histories of Philosophy
The relations between metaphysics and physics in Cartesianism is a question of crucial importance for nineteenth-century French histories of philosophy. Hence, in its institutionally dominant version, incarnated by Victor Cousin, this philosophy was understood as a spiritualism concerned with the founding of a psychology relying on a rationalist interpretation of the cogito. In order to achieve this, such a psychology must distinguish itself from…
Descartes' Treatise on Man and Its Reception
Descartes’ Treatise on Man and its Reception
Reviving Spiritualism with Monads: Francisque Bouillier's Impossible Mission (1839–64)
This paper studies Francisque Bouillier’s contribution to cousinian Spiritualism, from his first text on the History of Cartesian Philosophy from 1839 (revised version from 1842) to the publication of Du principe vital et de l’âme pensante (1864), a work which was likewise considerably amended as a result of the polemics it gave rise to. The paper is concerned with the reception of Leibniz in a double sense. In a positive sense, Bouillier managed…
Qu'est-ce qu'être cartésien
Qu’est-ce qui fait la spécificité du cartésianisme dans l’histoire des idées ? Ce volume propose une réponse à cette question : le cartésianisme peut tout aussi bien se penser à l’aide des outils d’une histoire de la philosophie classique recourant à la philologie, aux « sources » et à l’intertextualité, y compris en des termes critiques ; que dans les lexiques de la réfraction, de la transformation voire de la construction, rationnelle ou imagin…
La physique de l’homme chez Regius suivi de En quoi le Traité de l’Homme de Descartes peut-il être lu comme un texte matérialiste?
éditeur : Les récentes études sur l'épais dossier de la querelle d'Utrecht ont mis au jour le caractère tumultueux des relations entre Descartes et celui qu'il a pourtant considéré comme son disciple, jusqu'à la brouille définitive. La première contribution de ce volume aborde cette relation à partir de l'œuvre de Regius et à la lumière de l'interrogation suivante : sur quel type de théorie de la connaissance Regius se fonde-t-il pour rédiger une…
Philosophizing with a historiographical figure: Descartes in Degérando’s Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie (1804 and 1847)
The writings by the ‘state philosophers’ of nineteenth-century France are often seen, either as entirely driven by political or ideological concerns, or reduced to mere history of philosophy. Hence, ironically, those who established the philosophical canon that still now informs philosophy teaching in France were themselves excluded from that canon. Using the heuristic concept of a philosophical figure, this article intends to show how, for these…
La physique de l’homme chez Regius suivi de En quoi le Traité de l’Homme de Descartes peut-il être lu comme un texte matérialiste?
éditeur : Les récentes études sur l'épais dossier de la querelle d'Utrecht ont mis au jour le caractère tumultueux des relations entre Descartes et celui qu'il a pourtant considéré comme son disciple, jusqu'à la brouille définitive. La première contribution de ce volume aborde cette relation à partir de l'œuvre de Regius et à la lumière de l'interrogation suivante : sur quel type de théorie de la connaissance Regius se fonde-t-il pour rédiger une…
Qu'est-ce qu'être cartésien
Qu’est-ce qui fait la spécificité du cartésianisme dans l’histoire des idées ? Ce volume propose une réponse à cette question : le cartésianisme peut tout aussi bien se penser à l’aide des outils d’une histoire de la philosophie classique recourant à la philologie, aux « sources » et à l’intertextualité, y compris en des termes critiques ; que dans les lexiques de la réfraction, de la transformation voire de la construction, rationnelle ou imagin…
Reviving Spiritualism with Monads: Francisque Bouillier's Impossible Mission (1839–64)
This paper studies Francisque Bouillier’s contribution to cousinian Spiritualism, from his first text on the History of Cartesian Philosophy from 1839 (revised version from 1842) to the publication of Du principe vital et de l’âme pensante (1864), a work which was likewise considerably amended as a result of the polemics it gave rise to. The paper is concerned with the reception of Leibniz in a double sense. In a positive sense, Bouillier managed…
Descartes’ Treatise on Man and its Reception
Descartes' Treatise on Man and Its Reception
Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in His Reception
To Replant and Uproot. Typology of the Cartesian Tree of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century French Histories of Philosophy
The relations between metaphysics and physics in Cartesianism is a question of crucial importance for nineteenth-century French histories of philosophy. Hence, in its institutionally dominant version, incarnated by Victor Cousin, this philosophy was understood as a spiritualism concerned with the founding of a psychology relying on a rationalist interpretation of the cogito. In order to achieve this, such a psychology must distinguish itself from…
The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism
A collection of fifty essays on Descartes and his influence in the seventeenth century. The first section is devoted to various aspects of Descartes’s philosophy (biography, epistemology, metaphysics, natural philosophy (science), mathematics, philosophical theology, etc.). The second section is devoted to Descartes’s influence, especially Cartesians and the Cartesian movement, in France, the Netherlands, Italy, England and elsewhere. The third s…
Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism
The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading scholars of early modern philosophy. The first part focuses on the various aspects of Descartes's biography (including his background, intellectual contexts, writings, and correspondence)…
Une philosophie française sans philosophie française. L’éclectisme de Victor Cousin
Victor Cousin presented his philosophy as an eclecticism, incorporating the best materials from the Scottish empiricism of Reid and Dugald-Stewart, the German Idealism of Kant and Hegel and, the French psychology of Laromiguière and Royer-Collard. In this conception, the figure of Descartes is represented as a nationalist standard and the enduring image of a rationalist engaged in a struggle against all forms of sensualist empiricism - or worse, …
Pierre-Daniel Huet, Skeptic Critic of Cartesianism and Defender of Religion
Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630–1721) was Cartesianism’s most implacable critic ever. And more than any other critic, he raised the Cartesian issues that have been of perennial interest: the method of doubt, the cogito , clarity and distinctness as criteria of truth, the natural light, the circularity of the Meditations , proofs of God’s existence, etc. Moreover, under the term Cartesianism his Censura Philosophiae Cartesianae (1689) attacks both Descar…
The Condemnations of Cartesian Natural Philosophy Under Louis XIV (1661–91)
The interdiction of the teaching of Descartes’s natural philosophy pronounced by Louis XIV in 1671 was followed by a wave of official condemnations. The first part of this chapter gathers together the facts that led some historians to speak of the persecution of Cartesianism. In the second part, it is argued that various causes explain these condemnations, first by relativizing the importance of the doctrinal question of the Eucharist, second by …
Introduction: Debates on Experience and Empiricism in Nineteenth Century France
The lasting effects of the debate over canon-formation during the 1980s affected the whole field of Humanities, which became increasingly engaged in interrogating the origin and function of the Western canon (Gorak 1991; Searle 1990). In philosophy, a great deal of criticism was, as a result, directed at the traditional narrative of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophies—a critique informed by postcolonialism (Park 2013) as well as femi…
Philosophizing with a historiographical figure: Descartes in Degérando’s Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie (1804 and 1847)
The writings by the ‘state philosophers’ of nineteenth-century France are often seen, either as entirely driven by political or ideological concerns, or reduced to mere history of philosophy. Hence, ironically, those who established the philosophical canon that still now informs philosophy teaching in France were themselves excluded from that canon. Using the heuristic concept of a philosophical figure, this article intends to show how, for these…
Introduction to French spiritualism in the nineteenth century
International audience
The ‘empowered king’ of French spiritualism: Théodore Jouffroy
There is a paradox in the fate of nineteenth-century French philosophy: the ‘eclecticism' or ‘spiritualism' that was university philosophy, championed by Victor Cousin – ‘the king of the philosophers' – and commander of a ‘regiment' of other teacher-philosophers who docilely disseminated his doctrine, is almost entirely absent from today’s canon. Between the familiar figures of Maine de Biran and Bergson, the work of Comte or Tocqueville might be…
Laurent Fédi . Kant, une passion française. 1795-1940 . Hildesheim-Zürich-New York, Georg Olms Verlag, 2018, 690 p
Comment éveiller l’âme de Victor: Le problème des idées innées de Descartes à Itard
Dans l’historiographie des enfants sauvages, le Dr Jean Itard est un point de départ et Victor de l’Aveyron, un cas paradigmatique. Or, c’est aussi l’aboutissement d’une longue histoire métaphysique : la nature de l’âme humaine est le problème ontologique et épistémologique central. Un épisode décisif du xviie siècle fait ainsi référence au xixe siècle : si tout homme possède une idée innée de son âme, comment cette idée s’actualise-t-elle ? Inve…
Figures de Descartes dans l’historiographie française au xix e siècle
Les mobilisations de la figure de Descartes au xixe siècle en France dessinent une ligne de partage claire entre le spiritualisme institutionnellement dominant de Victor Cousin, celui du dualisme substantiel et des preuves de l’existence de Dieu, et d’autres formes de spiritualismes, soucieux de promouvoir une psychologie empiriste et de faire droit aux contenus positifs. L’historiographie du cartésianisme constitue ainsi le lieu d’observation pr…
Condillac and His Reception: On the Origin and Nature of Human Abilities
International audience
Metaphysics and the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century France
International audience
Transformer le monde par la métaphysique cartésienne: La révolution au bon sens du terme selon Victor Cousin
Philosophy (19 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (11 works) · History (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Historical and Literary Analyses (7 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (5 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (5 works) · Art (4 works)