Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger

Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger
Title	Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger
Discipline	Philosophy
Language	French
Country	France
History	1876–present
Frequency	Monthly

Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger is a long-running French periodical devoted to philosophical scholarship, founded in the late 19th century and continuously engaging with continental and Anglo-American debates. It has published essays, reviews, and critical notes by leading figures across Europe and beyond, intersecting with debates associated with Émile Durkheim, Henri Bergson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. The journal has served as a forum linking scholars affiliated with institutions such as Sorbonne University, Collège de France, École Normale Supérieure, and international centers including University of Oxford, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, and University of Berlin.

History

Founded in 1876 by figures associated with the Parisian intellectual milieu, the journal emerged amid controversies involving personalities like Victor Cousin, Auguste Comte, Gustave Flaubert, Alphonse Daudet, and debates traceable to the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War. Early editors fostered exchanges with scholars such as Charles Renouvier, Ferdinand Tönnies, Ernst Mach, John Stuart Mill, and William James. During the Third Republic the revue intersected with discussions around Jules Ferry's policies, intellectual currents associated with Symbolism, and responses to movements represented by Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Baron de Montesquieu. In the interwar period contributors included interlocutors of Henri Bergson, Émile Durkheim, Maurice Blondel, and critics linked to Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and members of the Collège de Sociologie. During World War I and World War II the review reflected exchanges with scholars such as Georges Sorel, Alexandre Kojève, Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers, and postwar reconstruction debates involving Raymond Aron, Paul Ricœur, Gaston Bachelard, and Michel Foucault.

Editorial and Publication Details

Editorial oversight historically involved academics from Université de Paris, Université de Lyon, Université de Strasbourg, and international scholars from Princeton University, Columbia University, Yale University, University of Chicago, University of Vienna, and University of Geneva. Publishers and printers in Paris maintained relationships with European houses linked to figures such as Gustave Eiffel-era industrialists and cultural patrons associated with Goncourt circles and collectors like Pierre Curie and Marie Curie. The journal's editorial board has included professors connected to chairs named for Émile Durkheim, Alexandre Kojève, Henri Bergson, and symposia convened alongside institutions like Académie française, Société française de philosophie, British Academy, and Royal Society. Publication frequency and format evolved under pressures from events such as the Great Depression, wartime censorship regimes, and postwar academic reforms influenced by panels at UNESCO.

Content and Themes

The revue has published work addressing figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Niccolò Machiavelli, Francis Bacon, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, David Hume, G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Ludwig Feuerbach, Antonio Gramsci, John Rawls, Isaiah Berlin, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Alasdair MacIntyre, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze. Thematic issues have engaged debates in metaphysics linked to Aristotelian traditions, epistemology in dialogue with Kantian scholarship, ethics in the wake of Immanuel Kant and Aristotle, political theory in relation to Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke, aesthetics intersecting with Charles Baudelaire and Marcel Proust, philosophy of science referencing Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Pierre Duhem, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, and analytic-continental exchanges involving Wittgenstein and Heidegger.

Notable Contributors and Articles

Contributors have included philosophers, historians, and scientists such as Henri Bergson, Émile Durkheim, Gaston Bachelard, Paul Ricœur, Raymond Aron, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Maritain, Emmanuel Levinas, Alexandre Koyré, André Lalande, Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Julia Kristeva, Jean Hyppolite, Pierre Hadot, Étienne Balibar, Cornelius Castoriadis, Hélène Cixous, Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Sébastien Roux, Paul Valéry, André Breton, Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Arthur Rimbaud, Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, François Lyotard, Louis Lavelle, Charles Sanders Peirce, Henri Poincaré, Alexandre Kojève, H. L. A. Hart, and John Dewey. Seminal articles addressed issues raised by works such as The Phenomenology of Spirit, Being and Time, The Second Sex, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Capital, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and Critique of Pure Reason.

Reception and Influence

Scholarly reception spans citations and critical engagement from figures at Institut de France, Collège de France, Harvard Divinity School, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Max Planck Institute, British Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and universities across Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Russia, China, Japan, and Brazil. The journal influenced curricula at Sorbonne Nouvelle, Sciences Po, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and informed translations and commentaries associated with publishers such as Gallimard, Flammarion, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Princeton University Press. Critical responses engaged scholars like Alfred North Whitehead, Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Noam Chomsky, Michel Serres, and debates in forums alongside prizes such as the Prix Goncourt-adjacent intellectual awards and honors from Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques.

Indexing and Availability

The revue is indexed in catalogues and bibliographies maintained by institutions such as Bibliothèque nationale de France, WorldCat, JSTOR, and library systems at University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Harvard University Library, Biblioteca Nacional de España, and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Physical archives are held in collections at Bibliothèque nationale de France, Archives Nationales, and university libraries including Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, while digital backfiles appear in repositories connected with Gallica, academic consortia of Europeana, and aggregators used by ProQuest and EBSCO.

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