Bergson-Deleuze encounters : transcendental experience and the thought of the virtual / Valentine Moulard-Leonard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leonard, Valentine, 1972-

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary French thought.

SUNY series in contemporary French thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.

Bergson, Henri.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bergson-Deleuze Encounters sheds light on the intricate bond between French philosophers Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. It explores the major diffraction between the two thinkers, conveys a sense of the irreducible originality of Deleuze's thought, and offers a detailed account of Bergson's "Copernican Revolution." In so doing, it presents an explanation of thought and experience that contrasts with the dominant account of the phenomenological tradition. Valentine Moulard-Leonard argues that Bergson and Deleuze share a novel conception of the transcendental—which they call the Virtual—that marks a new era in thinking, in which what is ultimately at stake is a new vision of time, experience, and materiality. The Virtual provides an indispensable alternative to the totalizing systems spawned by the traditional transcendent image of thought—be they systems of idealism, scientific positivism, nationalism, racism, sexism, or dogmatism.

Contents:

Introduction: Virtual empiricism : the revaluation of the transcendental

Briefly mapping our experimental journey

Bergson's genealogy of consciousness

The immediate data of consciousness

The role of the body

Pure perception and beyond

Introducing memory : from the psychological to the virtual

Memory and the brain : which survival?

Folding over : the psychological is also necessarily virtual

The unconscious as ontology of the virtual

From dualism to difference

The élan vital or the ontologization of duration

Memory as virtual coexistence

Sense and sensibility : Bergsonian positivism

Between Bergson and Deleuze : the method of intuition as transcendental/virtual empiricism

Absolute movement and intuition

Intuition and superior empiricism

Cinematic thought : the Deleuzean image and the crystals of time

Why the cinema?

Toward the crystal-image : a vision of the genesis of time

Proust and thought : death, art, and the adventures of the involuntary

Death is the truth of thought

How might death be put to work?

Art as the production of essences

Conclusion: Bergson-Deleuze encounters : machinic becomings and virtual materialism

What does Deleuze find in Bergson?

Why the image?

Why read Deleuze after Bergson?

Which machinic becomings?

Closing.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-185) and index.

ISBN:

9780791477953

0791477959

9781435665156

1435665155

OCLC:

251489439