BRUNSCHVICG, Le progrès de la conscience, 1927

First edition.
Léon Brunschvicg (1869-1944) was a French philosopher, a member of the Institut, and a professor at the Sorbonne. He is a major figure in French idealism and worked on the philosophy of science and psychology. This work offers a history of Western philosophy from the perspective of the development of consciousness, from antiquity to his own time.