Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson

by Andrea J. Pitts (Editor), Mark William Westmoreland (Editor), Leonard Lawlor (Foreword by)

Overview

Examines Bergson's work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438473529
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	01/02/2020
Series:	SUNY series, Philosophy and Race
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Andrea J. Pitts is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Mark William Westmoreland is a doctoral candidate and instructor of ethics and philosophy at Villanova University.

Table of Contents

Foreword: The Hope for this Volume: Sympathy
Leonard Lawlor

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Creative Extensions
Andrea J. Pitts and Mark William Westmoreland

Part I. Bergson on Colonialism, Social Groups, and the State

1. Decolonizing Bergson: The Temporal Schema of the Open and the Closed
Alia Al-Saji

2. The Language of Closure: Homogeneity, Exclusion, and the State
Martin Shuster

3. The Politics of Sympathy in Bergson’s The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
Melanie White

Part II. Bergsonian Themes in the Négritude Movement

4. Bergson, Senghor, and the Philosophical Foundations of Negritude: Intellect, Intuition, and Knowledge
Clevis Headley

5. The Spectacle of Belonging: Henri Bergson’s Comic Negro and the (Im)possibility of Place in the Colonial Metropolis
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel

Part III. Race, Revolution, and Bergsonism in Latin America

6. Racial Becomings: Evolution, Materialism, and Bergson in Spanish America
Adriana Novoa

7. Bergsonism in Postrevolutionary Mexico: Antonio Caso’s Theory of Aesthetic Intuition
Andrea J. Pitts

8. Antagonism and Myth: Jose Carlos Mariategui’s Revolutionary Bergsonism
Jaime Hanneken

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

"I found each of the authors' contributions to be valuable and insightful … this book would make an invaluable contribution to the library of any Bergson scholar, and those interested in the philosophy of race, or philosophy of liberation, among others." — John W. August III, Eidos

"This is a valuable resource for scholars of Bergson, race, and colonialism." — CHOICE

"This is an exceptionally strong volume that excites and inspires the philosophical imagination; it shows the centrality of questions of race and gender to philosophical inquiry and appropriation." — Keith Ansell-Pearson, author of Bergson: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition

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