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Jean Wahl (1888-1974), Once Considered By The Likes Of Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, And Gabriel Marcel To Be Among The Greatest French Philosophers, Has Today Nearly Been Forgotten Outside France. Yet His Influence On French Philosophical Thought Can Hardly Be Overestimated. Levinas Wrote That During Over A Half Century Of Teaching And Research, [wahl] Was The Life Force Of The Academic, Extra-academic, And Even, To A Degree Anti-academic Philosophy Necessary To A Great Culture. And Deleuze, For His Part, Commented That Apart From Sartre, Who Remained Caught None The Less In The Trap Of The Verb To Be, The Most Important Philosopher In France Was Jean Wahl. Besides Engaging With The Likes Of Bataille, Bergson, Deleuze, Derrida, Levinas, Maritain, And Sartre, Wahl Also Played A Significant Role, In Some Cases Almost Singlehandedly, In Introducing French Philosophy To Movements Like Existentialism, And American Pragmatism And Literature, And Thinkers Like Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, And Heidegger. Yet Wahl Was Also An Original Philosopher And Poet In His Own Right. This Volume Of Selections From Wahl's Philosophical Writings Makes A Selection Of His

Author

Jean Wahl, Edited, with an Introduction, by Alan D. Schrift, and Ian Alexander Moore

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823273058

Subjects

Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Humanities