WorkThéodore Simon Jouffroy

Mélanges philosophiques [Philosophical Miscellanies]

Théodore Simon Jouffroy (1796–1842) · 1833

InferredFuller writes 'Jouffroi's' book without a title; most likely work is the Mélanges philosophiques (1833), translated into English by George Ripley (Boston, 1838), which was the most discussed Jouffroy text in Transcendentalist circles at this date. Channing discusses 'Jouffroi's' book alongside Damiron's.

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Documented 1836–1839

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Journal December 1836

p7–8

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“Gave me an account of Dahmiron's book, Jouffroi's – Dahmiron had given him new light about Spinoza. Expressed much interest about Jacobi.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal December 1836." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 3.

Inferred Fuller writes 'Jouffroi's' book without a title; most likely work is the Mélanges philosophiques (1833), translated into English by George Ripley (Boston, 1838), which was the most discussed Jouffroy text in Transcendentalist circles at this date. Channing discusses 'Jouffroi's' book alongside Damiron's.

1839—

Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger

p53–p54

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“How express and admirable these remarks of Jouffroy's!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Fuller is 'Reading in Jouffroy the Chapters on mysticism and Pantheism.' She identifies specific chapters ('on skepticism of the present age,' 'on mysticism and Pantheism') and responds to his treatment of Spinoza.

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1833—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p26

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“as Jouffroy says it was with the successive French ministries: "The public wants something positive, and, seeing that such and such persons are excellent at fault-finding, it raises them to be rulers, when, lo !”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred The archive identifies a passage referencing Théodore Jouffroy's Mélanges philosophiques (1833), likely encountered by Margaret Fuller in either French or its partial English translation.