2001
Cairn
Jean Courtine, « A Metaphysical People », Revue de métaphysique et de morale, ID : 10670/1.823b51...
German philosophy came to understand itself in the post-Kant era as being a "Germanic and provincial" philosophy, thereby claiming its peculiarity which soon became "national" against the alleged universality of the French language and French philosophers. This paper seeks to examine the paradoxical effects of this reversal, which is linked to the French reception of Kant, and then of German idealism, following the leading thread of Schelling's reflections as well as his correspondence with Victor Cousin.