Bergson
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Bergson

Thinking Beyond the Human Condition

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Bergson

Thinking Beyond the Human Condition

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A thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation of readers. Ansell-Pearson contends that there is a Bergsonian revolution, an upheaval in philosophy comparable in significance to those that we are more familiar with, from Kant to Nietzsche and Heidegger, that make up our intellectual modernity. The focus of the text is on Bergson's conception of philosophy as the discipline that seeks to 'think beyond the human condition'. Not that we are caught up in an existential predicament when the appeal is made to think beyond the human condition; rather that restricting philosophy to the human condition fails to appreciate the extent to which we are not simply creatures of habit and automatism, but also organisms involved in a creative evolution of becoming. Ansell-Pearson introduces the work of Bergson and core aspects of his innovative modes of thinking; examines his interest in Epicureanism; explores his interest in the self and in time and memory; presents Bergson on ethics and on religion, and illuminates Bergson on the art of life.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2018
ISBN
9781350043961
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophie
Subtopic
Métaphysique philosophique

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. List of Abbreviations and Editions Used
  6. Introduction: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition
  7. Chapter 1 An Introduction to Bergson
  8. Chapter 2 A Melancholy Science: Bergson on Lucretius
  9. Chapter 3 Bergson on Time, Freedom, and the Self
  10. Chapter 4 Bergson on Memory
  11. Chapter 5 On Bergson’s Reformation of Philosophy in Creative Evolution
  12. Chapter 6 Bergson and Ethics
  13. Chapter 7 Bergson and Nietzsche on Religion: Critique, Immanence, and Affirmation
  14. Chapter 8 Bergson on Education and the Art of Life
  15. Notes
  16. Index