Abstract
Louis Arénilla : G. Gusdorf and the Enlightenment. This article discusses the works of G. Gusdorf devoted to the origins of the human sciences : six volumes, of which the last three deal with the Enlightenment. According to G. G., the 18th Century, although rationalising and naturalising the Galilean revolution which had rejected transcendental causation, did not completely exclude the religious dimension (seen in its Deism), nor retreat into a sterile intellectualism. Its empiricism fostered humanitarianism and gave birth to the ideas of well-being, happiness and philanthropy. The natural and human sciences contributed to the understanding, as well as the creation, of a better world. But G. G. insists that these developments were not the result of economic and social forces ; instead they are to be understood in terms of an eternal spirituality — his notion of ' mental space '.
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