Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Nicolas Malebranche(1638–1715)

Nicolas Malebranche is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts. One work is named, all in Extracts from De Maistre, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

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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 Nicolas Malebranche

No datable encounters with Malebranche, Nicolas have been catalogued yet.

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

Malebranche in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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Extracts from De Maistre

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“Says Malebranche Dieu est le lieu des esprits comme l'espace est le lieu des corps”

Fuller, Margaret. "Extracts from De Maistre." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Malebranche is named explicitly. The aphorism 'God is the place of spirits as space is the place of bodies' is closely associated with Malebranche's occasionalism and his doctrine of vision in God (vision en Dieu). It appears in De la recherche de la vérité (6 vols., 1674–75) and related works including the Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion (1688).

This is a secondary reference — Fuller transcribed De Maistre's use of Malebranche