Jean Wahl occupies a singular position in 20th Century French philosophy, introducing, in many cases for the first time in France, the works of major German philosophers. This volume offers translations of some of Wahl's most important and influential essays on Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, and Jaspers.

Professeur à la Sorbonne, où il accomplit, selon le mot de Levinas, « une activité extra-universitaire et même anti-universitaire nécessaire à une grande culture », Jean Wahl sut se distinguer par sa prescience des nouvelles orientations de la philosophie française dans sapropre insistance à réclamer les droits d’une philosophie du concret et du vécu, par opposition à ce qui lui apparaissait comme l’excès de l’abstraction et de totalisation de la pensée hégélienne. Le présent ouvrage, dans lequel Merleau-Ponty puisa une partie (...) de l’inspiration initiale de sa philosophie, propose une redécouverte de ce grand « passeur » dont l’audace modifia profondément le paysage philosophique français. (shrink)

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