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Bergson / Mark Sinclair.
Van Pelt Library B2430.B43 S495 2019
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sinclair, Mark, 1973- author.
- Series:
- Routledge philosophers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.
- Bergson, Henri.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- 1 [edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2019.
- Contents:
- 1 Intellectual biography p. 7
- Early years p. 7
- Intellectual roots p. 8
- The "Bergson boom" p. 14
- World War I p. 18
- The post-war years p. 22
- Eclipse p. 26
- 2 Time p. 35
- Where does Time and Free Will begin? p. 35
- Space as quantitative multiplicity p. 40
- Duration as qualitative multiplicity p. 47
- Homogeneous time and movement p. 53
- Profound and superficial selves p. 57
- 3 Freedom p. 63
- The experience of freedom p. 63
- Physical and psychological determinism p. 65
- Mind-energy p. 68
- Free will without alternative possibilities p. 72
- Real freedom p. 81
- 4 Memory p. 87
- From Time and Free Will to Matter and Memory p. 87
- Two forms of memory p. 89
- Recognition p. 96
- Pure memory p. 100
- 5 Mind and world p. 110
- From memory to perception p. 110
- Perception and the body p. 111
- Matter as motion p. 117
- Rhythms of duration p. 121
- Mind and body united? p. 126
- 6 Laughter p. 133
- No laughing matter p. 133
- Situating Laughter p. 134
- Ridiculous rigidity p. 137
- Hilarious habit p. 143
- The social function of laughter p. 145
- The expansive source of the comic p. 149
- Method and metaphysics p. 157
- Intuition and the absolute p. 158
- Practical intelligence p. 166
- Vital instinct p. 171
- Fragmentary aesthetics p. 177
- Suggestion and revelation p. 178
- Genius and creativity p. 183
- Nothingness, possibility and novelty p. 186
- Retroactivity p. 191
- Life and art as will p. 197
- 9 Life p. 202
- Spiritualist positivism p. 202
- Mechanism and finalism p. 205
- Forms of evolutionism p. 209
- Élan vital p. 213
- Life and matter p. 218
- 10 Ethics, religion and politics p. 228
- The sources of morality and religion p. 228
- Anti-intellectualist ethics p. 229
- Closed and open morality p. 233
- Myth and mysticism p. 241
- War and the will to power p. 244
- 11 Legacy p. 256
- Boom and bust p. 256
- From Time and Free Will to Being and Time p. 257
- Sartre's parricide p. 265
- Bergson redivivus p. 268.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781138219489
- 1138219487
- 9781138219496
- 1138219495
- OCLC:
- 1097672884
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