Inside volume two, readers will find a series of scholarly studies to help them get to grips with this neglected field in the history of ideas. The contributors are world-leading and emerging experts from Europe, UK, and North America. They highlight the stakes and trace the pathways of this reception for French and German thought during the period, including the ways in which French philosophers of the period took up the debates and concepts of German Idealism, transformed them or rejected them. In this way, the volume aims to redress the serious neglect of early nineteenth-century French thought in English-language scholarship and, in so doing, goes beyond a nation-based narrative of the history of philosophy.

1. Cousin's and Leroux's Antagonistic Visions of German Idealism (Lucie Rey).- 2. Becoming Cousin: Eclecticism, Spiritualism and Hegelianism before 1833 (Daniel Whistler).- 3. Ravaisson after Schelling: Purposiveness without Purpose in Genius and Habit (Mark Sinclair).- 4. Line, Vine, and Grace: Ravaisson's Spiral and Schelling's Vortex (Ben Woodard).- 5. "Naturism" in place of Idealism: Henri Ducrotay de Blainville and Auguste Comte on Naturphilosophie (Laurent Clauzade).- 6. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and the Reception of German Philosophy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France (Edward Castleton).- 7. Pantheism and the Dangers of Hegelianism in Nineteenth-Century France (Kirill Chepurin).- 8. Hegel's Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century France: Charles Bénard's Translation and its Reception (Élisabeth Décultot).- 9. Augusto Vera's Mystical Conception of Hegelianism (Andrea Bellantone).- 10. Charles Renouvier, Modern French Philosophy, and the Great Learned Men of Germany (Jeremy Dunham).