528 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

528 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

528 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Henri Bergson (1859–1941) is widely regarded as one of the most original and important philosophers of the twentieth century. His work explored a rich panoply of subjects, including time, memory, free will and humour and we owe the popular term élan vital to a fundamental insight of Bergson’s. His books provoked responses from some of the leading thinkers and philosophers of his time, including... Read more

Introduction Mark Sinclair and Yaron Wolf

Part 1: Sources and Scene

1. The Roots of Bergson’s Concept of Duration Reconsidered Mark Sinclair

2. Bergson vs Herbert Spencer: Real Becoming and False Evolutionism Heike Delitz

3. Bergson at the Collège de France Céline Surprenant

Part 2: Mind and World

4. Duration: A Fluid Concept Susanne Guerlac

5. Bergson on the Immediate Experience of Time Yaron Wolf

6. The Perception of Change and Self-Knowledge: Bergson and Kant Yaron Senderowicz

7. On Freedom: Bergson after Kant Matt Barnard

8. Character and Personality: From a Privileged Image of Durée to the Core of a New Metaphysics Donald Landes

9. Subject and Person in Bergson Camille Riquier

10. Attention to Life and Psychopathology John Ó Maoilearca

11. Bergson on the Emotions Keith Ansell-Pearson

12. Bergson’s Social Philosophy of Laughter Stephen Crocker

13. The Naive Realism of Henri Bergson Robert Watt

14. Bergson and Metaphysical Empiricism Stéphane Madelrieux

15. The Psychological Interpretation of Life Tano Posteraro

16. Bergson on Virtuality and Possibility Tatsuya Murayama

17. Bergsonian Metaphysics: Virtuality, Possibility, and Creativity Adrian Moore

18. Reflections on the Notion of System in Creative Evolution Arnaud François

19. Infinite Divisibility vs. Absolute Indivisibility: What Separates Einstein and Bergson Yuval Dolev

Part 3: Ethics and Politics

20. Closed and Open Societies Alexandre Lefebvre and Nils Schott

21. Bergson on Emotion and Ethical Mobilization Arnaud Bouaniche

22. Bergson and Sociobiology Melanie White

23. The Phantom Presence of War in Bergson’s Two Sources Melanie Weill

Part 4: Reception

24. Bergson and William James Jeremy Dunham

25. Bergson and German Philosophy Caterina Zanfi

26. The Vital Impulse and Early 20th-Century Biology Emily Herring

27. From Time to Temporality: Heidegger’s Critique of Bergson Heath Massey

28. Russell Reading Bergson Andreas Vrahimis

29. The Concept of Substitution in Bergson and Levinas Miguel Paley

30. The Way of the Africans: Césaire, Senghor and Bergson’s Philosophy Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Part 5: Bergson and Contemporary Thought

31. Irreducibility, Indivisibility, and Interpenetration Barry Dainton

32. A Bergsonian Response to McTaggart’s Paradox Matyáš Moravec

33. Bergson and Process Philosophy of Biology Anne Sophie Meincke

34. Bergson as Visionary in Evolutionary Biology Mathilde Tahar

35. ‘Living Pictures’: Bergson, Cinema, and Film Philosophy Dave Deamer

36. Anti-intellectualism: Bergson and Contemporary Encounters Matt Dougherty.

Index

Biography

Mark Sinclair is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton, London, UK. He is the author of Bergson (2020) in the Routledge Philosophers series.

Yaron Wolf is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

'The Bergsonian Mind is accessible to those recently encountering Bergson’s philosophy, and it is a reserve of nuanced research for Bergson scholars. This much-needed collection will reward those interested in philosophy, political theory, the history of physical sciences, sociology, and aesthetics. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' - CHOICE