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Part of the book: The Work and Thought of Jean Grenier (1898-1971)

J. S. T. Garfitt

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 20

Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract.  Grenier does not offer his own philosophy of evil, but examines several different approaches to the problem. As in the Entretiens, his own insights and suggestions are to be found in fragmentary form, and are not necessarily susceptible of being compressed into a homogeneous whole. After an introduction in which he notes, like Renouvier, that the human spirit seems to be made for immortality, and, like Camus, that suffering and death present an absurd contrast to that destiny, he begins in the first chapter by asking whether it is not possible to consider le mal and le bien as necessary and complementary aspects of the whole of existence.

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