COUSIN, Victor; LINBERG, Henning Gotfried, [trans.]

Introduction to the History of Philosophy

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1832. First American Edition. Octavo (26cm). Original blue cloth, paper label on spine; plain endpapers; viii,458pp. A stable copy, sunned at spine and upper rear board, cloth lightly scuffed, internally clean: Very Good.

Though Cousin's philosophical work is no longer held in the highest esteem, he was "a publishing sensation in the United States in the same years that saw the emergence and flowering of the Transcendentalist movement," and his work influenced Emerson, Poe, and other contemporary thinkers (Joseph Urbas, "In Praise of Second-Rate French Philosophy: Reassessing Victor Cousin's Contribution to Transcendentalism," Revue Française d'Étude Américaines 2014/3).

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