Maurice Pradines, philosophie de la sensation. ii. la sensibilité élémentaire. les sens de la défense. publications de la faculté des lettres de l'université de strasbourg, fascicule 66 (paris

les belles lettres, 1934), 381 pp

Aron Gurwitsch

pp. 497-500

Review of:

Pradines Maurice, Philosophie de la sensation II: La sensibilité élémentaire, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1932.

Pradines' book is a series of his studies about the philosophy of sensation. After having posed the most general problems pertaining thereto (e.g., those concerning quality, space, outer perception, perceptual memory), and after having examined—in the prior volume¹—those among the primary senses which he describes as "senses of need" (pleasure, taste, and smell), the author devotes the present volume to the examination of cutaneous sensibility, i.e., to that set of sensory data that constitute the "senses of defense."