Editors’ Introduction: Mutation, Contestation, Hybridisation: Hegel, Schelling and French Philosophy, 1801–1848

This introduction familiarises the reader with the project undertaken in Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France by focusing on the various methodological requirements for its transnational reception-history. Such a methodology should trace the mutations, contestations and hybridisations that constitute the dissemination of Hegel’s and Schelling’s philosophies into France. We argue, in particular, for a renewed method in the history of post-Kantian philosophy which is, firstly, more sensitive to the work of intellectual history and the history of ideas; secondly, as interested in the material processes by which an argument circulates as the validity of that argument itself; and, thirdly, which does away with the canon, as far as possible, in favour of a history of philosophy done in a minoritarian key.