Maine de Biran. Essai sur sa Philosophei Suivi de Fragments Inedits.

Thick 8vo. [4], c, 519, [3] pp. Original printed wrappers; extremities chipped, spine ends and cover corners missing small pieces. As is. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED from Gerard to M. H. Chotard verso title page. Maine de Biran (1766-1824) was a French philosopher who evolved from a sensualist to a mystical theosophist, proposing that "human conscious experience might be exhibited as growing or developing from its essential basis in connection with external conditions" (Wikip.). Martin Henri Chotard (1821-1904), to whom the book is inscribed, was a historian and lecturer first at Basencon and then at Claremont-Ferrand, where he became dean. He was described by one inspector, sitting in on his lectures, as someone who "worked hard and did his utmost not to be common. . . 'Speaking easily, clearly, and soberly, he does not hanker after rhetorical or declamatory effect. He has the tone and approach truly befitting a professor,'" the inspector said (den Boer 232). den Boer, Pim. History as a Profession: The Study of History in France, 1818-1914. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.

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Publisher: Germer Bailliere, 1876.

Year: 1876

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Binding: Softcover

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