This work presents an historical investigation of the early phases in the reception of the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl in France. Chapter 1 argues that Henri Bergson s insights into lived duration and intuition and Maurice Blondel s genetic descrip tion of action functioned as essential precursors. Chapter 2 details the reception of Husserl and his followers among three successive pairs of French academic philosophers: L on No l and Victor Delbos, Lev Shestov and Jean H ring, Bernard Groethuysen and Georges Gurvitch. Chapter 3 addresses the appropriation of Bergsonian and...

This book examines the reception of the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl in France, probing the reponses of philosophers and religious thinkers of the day, and showing how these developed differently based on the influence of Bergson and Blondel.