Flix Ravaisson: Fragments on Philosophy and Religion

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Flix Ravaisson: Fragments on Philosophy and Religion offers accurate translations of a selection of writings from Ravaissons notes on the history and philosophy of religion, dating from 1850 to 1900. They address ancient Greek thought, Christian theology, Aristotles reception in Islamic philosophy, and the philosophy of revelation. Bringing these texts to an English audience for the first time, the editors place the fragments in the context of Ravaissons philosophy as a whole. Ravaissons unpublished fragments show his lifelong grappling with fundamental questions of theology. They demonstrate that the researches into mystery religions, mysticism and the Christian liturgy to which he devoted the end of his long career were not a rupture with the philosophy of his early years. In these texts Ravaisson elaborated his philosophy of revelation, sacrifice and love, and continued the story he had begun with his study of Aristotle.

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Victor Emma-Adamah is a Research Associate at the Unit de Recherche: Culture, thique, Religion et Socit (UR CERES) of the Catholic University of Toulouse, France. Simone Kotva is Research Fellow at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, Norway and Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2020). Clare Carlisle is Reader in Philosophy and Theology at Kings College London, UK. She is the author of six books on philosophy and philosophers, most recently Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard (2019) and Spinozas Religion (2021). She is also the co-translator and editor of Flix Ravaissons Of Habit (Bloomsbury, 2007) and the editor of Spinozas Ethics, translated by George Eliot (2020).