Mechanisms of Dissemination

Any account of the conditions for making possible the dissemination of German philosophy in France in the nineteenth century must include the various publications, institutions and mechanisms that supported, promoted and encouraged it. To this end, this chapter is interested in the structures that made the reception of Hegel’s and Schelling’s philosophy possible in France. It includes sections on the journals that discussed their work, the obituaries of Hegel that appeared in the early 1830s, the role of the prize-essay competitions set by the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, the research visits undertaken to Germany and the epistolary networks that all supported their reception.