Renouvier, Charles
Renouvier, Charles
(1818-1903) a thinker strongly influenced by Leibniz and Kant. His philosophy has been called ‘phenomenological neo-criticism’, and its peculiar feature is that it denies the existence of all transcendental entities, such as thing-in-itself, the absolute, and the noumenon. — R.B.W.
Main worksUchronie, 1857, Philos. analytique de l’histoire, 4 vols., 1896-98; La nouvelle monadologie, 1899; Le Personnalisme, 1903; Essais de critique generale, 1851-64.