Towards a New Anthropology of the Embodied Mind: Maine de Biran’s Physio-Spiritualism from 1800 to the 21st Century

Manfred Milz, Ph.D. in History of Art, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. He is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Media, Language and Culture at the University of Regensburg and long-term Visiting Associate Professor at the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture, University of Johannesburg. Milz is the author of Samuel Beckett und Alberto Giacometti (Königshausen & Neumann 2006), guest-editor of The European Legacy (2011): Bergson and European Modernism Reconsidered, editor of Facing Mental Landscapes (2011), editor of Painting the Persian Book of Kings Today (millennium anniversary catalogue, Cambridge 2010), and the editor-in-chief of the Brill book series Transcultural Aesthetics, founded in 2021 by the IAA.

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Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors



Introduction



Part 1 Maine De Biran in His Time (Around) 1800



1 Maine de Biran: Gender, Sensibility, and the Dynamics of Self in Post-revolutionary France

 Sean Quinlan



2 Maine de Biran and Neurology

 Larry McGrath



3 On Sympathy and Attention: Maine de Biran, Reader of Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart

 Marco Piazza



4 Did Maine de Biran Refute David Hume?

 Warren Schmaus



5 Biran and Schelling: “Contact Points” for a Radical Phenomenology

 Marc Maesschalck



6 Schopenhauer and the Primal Will—A Radically Phenomenological Reading in Comparison with Maine de Biran

 Rolf Kühn



7 Quel œil peut se voir soi-même?: Character and Habit in Stendhal and Maine de Biran

 Alessandra Aloisi



Part 2 Intermediary Biranian Posterities (1870s–1945)



8 Jules Lachelier, Reader of Maine de Biran—Contention and Legacy

 Denise Vincenti



9 Maine de Biran, Alfred Fouillée, Jean-Marie Guyau, Henri Bergson: from Concentration to Expansion and Back Again

 Benjamin Jacques Bâcle



10 The French Kant (or Fichte)? Brunschvicg, Biran, and the missed Synchronism

 Pietro Terzi



11 Maurice Blondel’s Philosophical Debt to Maine de Biran

 Michael A. Conway



12 Power(s) of I, Myself: Louis Lavelle and Maine de Biran

 Anne Devarieux



13 The First Significant Season of Maine de Biran’s Reception in Italy between Neo-Kantianism and Spiritualistic Realism (1911–1939)

 Marco Piazza



14 Maine de Biran in Huxley’s Brave New World: Transcending the Utilitarian through a Spiritual Self

 Manfred Milz



15 Voluntary Movement as Reflection or Creation: Maine de Biran, Félix Ravaisson, and Nishida Kitarō

 Mika Imono



Part 3 Postwar Biran-Reception and Beyond: Existentialism; Phenomenology and Poststructuralism (1943–2010)



16 Paul Ricœur and Maurice Merleau-Ponty on the “Primitive Fact” of Subjectivity in Maine de Biran

 Eftichis Epirovolakis



17 The Docile Body: Paul Ricœur’s Critique of Biran’s “Primitive Fact”

 Scott Davidson



18 “L’Immanence: une vie… ” – Gilles Deleuze, Maine de Biran and the Transcendental Field

 Alessandra Aloisi



19 Sensing Resistance? On Jacques Derrida’s Reading of Maine de Biran

 Björn Thorsteinsson



20 (An) Unforgettable Maine de Biran? The Biranian Heresy of Michel Henry

 Anne Devarieux



21 The Deep Layer of Affectivity—Maine de Biran’s Influence on Marc Richir’s Phenomenological Project

 Luis Umbelino



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