Le musée de philosophie: Cousin et Malraux

This article reads Victor Cousin alongside André Malraux, in order to envisage Cousin's eclectic historiography as, in part, a description of the entry-conditions into a philosophy-museum, a specification of the minimal threshold required for the becoming-memorialised of philosophical objects. That is, Cousin's imaginary philosophy-museum is constructed out of four operations of virtualisation - espassément, figuration, serialisation and characterisation - and it is as a result of these procedures that Cousin can thereby undertake the eclectic accumulation of past philosophies. It is by fabulating a past on a univocal plane with distinct basal-figures assembled into series of continuities and singularities that the Cousinian practice of the historiography of philosophy is constituted.