Transcendence and the Concrete by Wahl Jean Andre;Schrift Alan D.;Moore Ian Alexander;

Author:Wahl, Jean Andre;Schrift, Alan D.;Moore, Ian Alexander;
Language: eng
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“Le problème du choix: L’ existence et la transcendance dans la philosophie de Jaspers,” Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 41, no. 3 (July 1934): 405–44; republished in Jean Wahl, Études kierkegaardiennes (Paris: Fernand Aubier, 1938), 510–52.

1. Olivier Argard, “Die Resonanz der deutschen zeitgenössischen Philosophie in den französischen philosophischen Fachzeitschriften zwischen 1933 und 1945,” in Philosophie und Zeitgeist im Nationalsozialismus, ed. Marion Heinz and Goran Gretić (Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2006), 29–32; Stefanos Geroulanos, An Atheism That Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010), 53–55.

2. Jean Wahl, “Le Journal Métaphysique de Gabriel Marcel,” Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 37, no. 1 (January–March 1930): 75–112. Republished and expanded as the final chapter of Wahl’s Vers le concret.

3. According to a search of the journal’s pages on Jstor.org, prior to Wahl’s article, Jaspers does not appear to have been mentioned at all in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale.

4. [Wahl cites references from Karl Jaspers, Philosophie, 3 vols. (Berlin: Springer, 1932); his references will appear in parentheses in the body of the text followed by the page reference to the English translation: Karl Jaspers, Philosophy, 3 vols., trans. E. B. Ashton (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969, 1970, 1971). When only one page reference appears, this is Wahl’s reference to the German text, as the corresponding passage in the English text has not been located. In our translation, we provide an English translation of Wahl’s French translation of Jaspers’s German, which will often differ significantly from the published English translation of Jaspers’s Philosophy.]

5. Here one might recall Émile Boutroux’s philosophy of contingency.

6. Cf. Gabriel Marcel, Journal Métaphysique [(Paris: Gallimard, 1927)], 42, 64, 98. [English translation: Metaphysical Journal, trans. Bernard Wall (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1952), 41–42, 63–64, 98–99; Wahl also refers to p. 418 of the French, which does not exist and has therefore been deleted.] I have tried, in these notes, to indicate points where Marcel’s attempt connects with that of Jaspers. (I have also noted the connections between Jaspers and Kierkegaard that can be explained by a direct influence.) Marcel had a sense of these connections. See his article, “Situation fondamentale et situations limites chez Karl Jaspers,” Recherches Philosophiques 2 (1932/33): 322, 326. [English translation: “The Fundamental and Ultimate Situation in Karl Jaspers,” in Gabriel Marcel, Creative Fidelity, trans. Robert Rosthal, preface by Merold Westphal (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002), 227–28, 231. Unless otherwise noted, all of Wahl’s subsequent references to Marcel will be to this article in Recherches Philosophiques. Page numbers to the French will be given first, followed by a slash, and then to the English translation.]

7. [Here Wahl appears to mistakenly reference 2:206.]

8. Cf. similar formulations in Kierkegaard.

9. Cf. Marcel, 344/249–50, 347/252–53. [Following the footnote indicator, Wahl added the following to the version of the essay that appeared in Études kierkegaardiennes: “One will encounter failure everywhere; from what is thought, one cannot deduce the thought; from the individual, one will not be able to deduce the whole; from reason, one will not be able to deduce the irrational, and the inverse operations will not be possible either.

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