Henri Bergson: Key Writings / Edition 1

by Keith Ansell-Pearson, John Ó Maoilearca

Overview

This volume brings together generous selections from his major texts: Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory, Creative Evolution, Mind-Energy, The Creative Mind, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion and Laughter. In addition it features material from the Melanges never before translated in English, such as the correspondence between Bergson and William James. The volume will be an excellent textbook for pedagogic purposes and a helpful source book for philosophers working across the analytic/continental divide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826457295
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/22/2002
Series:	Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Keith Ansell Pearson holds a Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. John Mullarkey teaches Philosophy at the University of Dundee. He is the author of Bergson and Philosophy (Edinburgh UP, 1999), Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline (Continuum, 2006) and Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Table of Contents

1. Time and Free Will: The Idea of Duration2. Matter and Memory3. Mind-Energy4. Creative Evolution5. Duration and Simultaneity: The Nature of Time6. The Creative Mind7. Bergson and Kant: Beyond the Noumenal8. The Two Sources of Morality and Religion9. Melanges

Editorial Reviews

"Henri Bergson: Key Writings will change the way we will think about Twentieth Century philosophy. It includes selections from all of Bergson s important published texts and English translations of other never before translated texts. Ansell-Pearson and Mullarkey have done a great job; their Preface to the volume is one of the best introductions to (and expansions of) Bergson s philosophy available in any language." Leonard Lawlor, University of Memphis

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