{"product_id":"f-lix-ravaisson-selected-essays","title":"F?lix Ravaisson: Selected Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis reader makes the key essays of 19th century French philosopher F?lix Ravaisson available in English for the first time. In recent years, Ravaisson has emerged as an extremely important and influential figure in the history of modern European philosophy. The volume contains the classic 1838 dissertation \u003ci\u003eOf Habit\u003c\/i\u003e, studies of Pascal, Stoicism and the wider history of philosophy together with the \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Testament \u003c\/i\u003ethat he left unfinished when he died in 1900. The volume also features Ravaisson's work in archaeology, the history of religions and art-theory, and his essay on the Venus de Milo, which occupied him over a period of twenty years after he noticed, when hiding the statue behind a false wall in a dingy Parisian basement during the Franco-Prussian war, that it had previously been presented in a way that deformed its original bearing and meaning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eF?lix Ravaisson: Selected Essays\u003c\/i\u003e contains an introductory intellectual biography of Ravaisson, which contextualises each of the essays in the volume. It also features an annotated bibliography of suggested further reading. This book will grant scholars and students alike wider access to his distinctive contribution to the history of philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFélix Ravaisson\u003c\/b\u003e (1813-1900) was France's most influential philosopher in the second half of the 19th-century, and held a number of prestigious posts, including that of Curator of Classical Antiquities at the Louvre. His work was pivotal in the development of modern French philosophy, and it has been celebrated by philosophers such as Bergson and Heidegger. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Sinclair\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and Associate Editor of the \u003ci\u003eBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the co-translator of Félix Ravaisson's \u003ci\u003eOf Habit \u003c\/i\u003e(Continuum, 2008).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50337869299986,"sku":"9781472574879","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_715dc7d3-f3aa-4e8c-b158-679f00068ad7.jpg?v=1727971723","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/f-lix-ravaisson-selected-essays","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}