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Christian Dupont

Burns Librarian and associate university librarian for special collections at Boston College. He directs the John J. Burns Library for Rare Books & Special Collections and University Archives. His primary research interests relate to the history of libraries and collecting. His most recent publications and presentations concern the formation of institutional collections relating to Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy and their role in the reception of Italian literature in the United States. He has also recently published a book on the reception of phenomenology in French philosophy and religious thought for the Phaenomenologica series.

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Phenomenology in French philosophy

Christian Dupont

Springer - Berlin

2014

This work investigates the early encounters of French philosophers and religious thinkers with the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Following an introductory chapter addressing context and methodology, Chapter 2 argues that Henri Bergson's insights into lived duration and intuition and Maurice Blondel's genetic description of action functioned as essential precursors to the French reception of phenomenology.

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