Author

Victor Cousin(1792–1867)

Victor Cousin is documented in Fuller’s letters and journals (1841–1842). One work is named, most often in Letter to Richard F. Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Journals
Documented: 1841–1842

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with Victor Cousin

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Cousin in Fuller’s reading world

Cours de l'histoire de la philosophieInferred1842

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1841—

Journal November 1841

p19

quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)

“Conception generale dans le sujet pensant, comme loi ou forme generale dans l'objet externe. / Cousin.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal November 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 5.

Inferred Fuller cites 'Cousin' as the source of a French philosophical phrase. The specific work is not named. Cousin's philosophical writings of the 1830s–1840s are the most likely source; the phrase echoes his eclectic philosophy and epistemology. Fuller cites Victor Cousin explicitly by name.

1842—

Letter to Richard F. Fuller

p86

analyzed · read

“You should not have tried Cousin on Locke but his Introduction”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller advises Richard that he should have read Cousin's "Introduction" rather than "Cousin on Locke." Hudspeth identified Victor Cousin's lectures on Locke were published as Vol. 2 of Cours de l'histoire de la philosophie (Paris, 1829), with Caleb S.