Conceptualism in Buddhist and French traditions

This monograph presents a series of lectures delivered at the College de France in 1998 dealing with the two most traditions in the history of ideas, the Buddhist and the French. The Buddhist tradition of interpreting all phenomena of singification in terms of apohavada or the philosophy of interpreting all signification in terms of the dialectic of the being and the other. There is a similar philosophy in the french tradition since Abelard in the twelfth century that interprets all linguistic and theological concepts in terms of sensus, imaginatio, intellectus. The point of departure is a sensuous experience that is crystallised in the domain of imaginare before its intellectual articulation. All phenomena is conceptual and must be interpreted as such.