“Naturism” in Place of Idealism: Henri Ducrotay de Blainville and Auguste Comte on Naturphilosophie - HAL-SHS - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société
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“Naturism” in Place of Idealism: Henri Ducrotay de Blainville and Auguste Comte on Naturphilosophie

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This study argues that the most significant impact of German absolute idealism on French positivism is felt via the tradition of philosophy of nature. While the philosophy of nature was inaugurated by Schelling, it is in fact through the work of his successor, Lorenz Oken, that it enters into the positivist corpus. It was out of an attempt to understand Oken’s significance for nineteenth-century biology that Auguste Comte and also Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville took an interest in the idealist tradition out of which Oken emerged. In this study, therefore, I detail Oken’s reception in Blainville’s and Comte’s comments on the scale of beings and on organic life. In the appendix, I give a summary of the chapter on Oken written by Magdeleine de Saint-Agy and included in Georges Cuvier’s Histoire des sciences naturelles.
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halshs-04437456 , version 1 (04-02-2024)

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Laurent Clauzade. “Naturism” in Place of Idealism: Henri Ducrotay de Blainville and Auguste Comte on Naturphilosophie. Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France, 247, Springer International Publishing, pp.75-95, 2023, International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-39326-6_5⟩. ⟨halshs-04437456⟩
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