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Forest, Aimé

 
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Synopsis

Aimé Forest (1898–1983) was a French metaphysical philosopher and historian of medieval philosophy who taught at the universities of Grenoble and then Montpellier. Consent to Being, published in 1936, was his first book, and it, along with the ones that followed, such as Consentement et Création (1943), La vocation de l’Esprit (1953), and L’avènement de l’âme (1973), established him as a leading figure among the twentieth-century French Catholic “philosophers of the spirit.” In this book he is concerned with bringing to light the spiritual significance of what he calls the philosophical method of consent to being. His insistence on the profound connection between the spirit and being underlies his ambitious project of resurrecting metaphysical thought in the modern day by rescuing it from the abstractions of the scientific understanding. This first English translation of any of Forest’s books introduces a Christian philosopher of great significance and originality to the anglophone intellectual world.

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À propos des auteurs

Bruce K. Ward is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies of Thorneloe University at Laurentian (Sudbury, Ontario). He is the author of Redeeming the Enlightenment: Christianity and the Liberal Virtues (2010) and the translator of Charles Peguy's Notes on Bergson and Descartes: Philosophy, Christianity and Modernity in Contestation (2019).

Bruce K. Ward is Professor of Religious Studies Emeritus of Thorneloe University at Laurentian (Sudbury, Ontario). He is the author of Redeeming the Enlightenment: Christianity and the Liberal Virtues, as well as two books on Dostoevsky, Remembering the End: Dostoevsky as Prophet to Modernity (co-authored with P. Travis Kroeker) and Dostoevsky's Critique of the West: The Quest for the Earthly Paradise.

John Milbank is Research Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Politics at the University of Nottingham, in England. He is the author of numerous works, including Theology and Social Theory, The Suspended Middle, and The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox versus Dialectics (with Slavoj _i_ek).

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