The work of Henri Bergson, the foremost French philosopher of the early twentieth century, is not usually explored for its political dimensions. Indeed, Bergson is best known for his writings on ...time, evolution, and creativity. This book concentrates instead on his political philosophy—and especially on his late masterpiece, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion —from which Alexandre Lefebvre develops an original approach to human rights.We tend to think of human rights as the urgent international project of protecting all people everywhere from harm. Bergson shows us that human rights can also serve as a medium of personal transformation and self-care. For Bergson, the main purpose of human rights is to initiate all human beings into love. Forging connections between human rights scholarship and philosophy as self-care, Lefebvre uses human rights to channel the whole of Bergson's philosophy.
Henri Bergson is frequently cited amongst the holy trinity of major influences on Modernism-literary and otherwise-alongside Sigmund Freud and William James. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism has ...re-popularized Bergson for the twenty-first century, so much so that, perhaps, our Bergson is Deleuze's Bergson. Despite renewed interest in Bergson, his influence remains understudied and consequently undervalued. While books examining the impact of Freud and James on Modernism abound, Bergson's impact, though widely acknowledged, has been closely examined much more rarely. Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism remedies this deficiency in three ways. First, it offers close readings and critiques of six pivotal texts. Second, it reassesses Bergson's impact on Modernism while also tracing his continuing importance to literature, media, and philosophy throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. In its final section it provides an extended glossary of Bergsonian terms, complete with extensive examples and citations of their use across his texts. The glossary also maps the influence of Bergson's work by including entries on related writers, all of whom Bergson either corresponded with or critiqued.
Explores the possibility of an alternative experience of time, one that is closer to the pure duration described by philosopher Henri Bergson. Contributes to contemporary performance analysis, ...philosophy and Bergson studies and examines aspects of immersive and participatory performance, ritual and online performance. 9 b&w illus.
The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick explores the deep affinity between two seemingly quite different thinkers, in their attempts to address the need ...for salvation in (and from) an era of accelerated mechanization, in which humans’ capacity for destroying or subjugating the living has attained a planetary scale. The philosopher and the science fiction writer come together to meet the contradictory imperatives of a realist outlook—a task which, arguably, philosophy and science fiction could only ever adequately undertake in collaboration. Their respective approaches meet in a focus on the ambiguous status of fictionalizing, or fabulation, as simultaneously one of mechanization’s most devastating tools, and the possibility of its undoing. When they are read together, the complexities and paradoxes thrown up by this ambiguity, with which both Bergson and Dick struggle on their own, open up new ways to navigate ideas of mechanism and mysticism, immanence and transcendence, and the possibility and meaning of salvation. The result is at once an original reading of both thinkers, a new critical theory of the socio–cultural, political and ethical function of fictionalizing, and a case study in the strange affinity, at times the uncanny similarity, between philosophy and science fiction.
Winner of the 2012 Godbey Authors' Awards presented by the Godbey Lecture Series in Southern Methodist University's Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences Living Consciousness examines the ...brilliant, but now largely ignored, insights of French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859–1941). Presenting a detailed and accessible analysis of Bergson's thought, G. William Barnard highlights how Bergson's understanding of the nature of consciousness and, in particular, its relationship to the physical world remain strikingly relevant to numerous contemporary fields. These range from quantum physics and process thought to philosophy of mind, depth psychology, transpersonal theory, and religious studies. Bergson's notion of consciousness as a ceaselessly dynamic, inherently temporal substance of reality itself provides a vision that can function as a persuasive alternative to mechanistic and reductionistic understandings of consciousness and reality. Throughout the work, Barnard offers "ruminations" or neo-Bergsonian responses to a series of vitally important questions such as: What does it mean to live consciously, authentically, and attuned to our inner depths? Is there a philosophically sophisticated way to claim that the survival of consciousness after physical death is not only possible but likely?
Pensar con Bergson Ruiz Jiménez, Juan Manuel; Andrade, José Joaquín
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El departamento de Humanidades y Filosofía de la Universidad del Norte quiere, con este libro de investigación sobre el pensamiento del filósofo francés Henri Bergson (1859-1941), conmemorar los ...8 años de su muerte. Hemos considerado que este es un pretexto válido, aunque no necesario, para renovar la atención que pueda prestársele a su estupenda obra. En efecto, su filosofía es de aquellas pocas que, por su profundidad, claridad y originalidad, ameritan un constante interés. Lo cierto es que Bergson fue revolucionario por su lectura del tiempo que rescata la dimensión interna de la experiencia como acontecimiento vital de primer orden; por su capacidad de síntesis de las nociones de materia y espíritu, que inauguró una nueva filosofía de la percepción y una brillante interpretación del concepto de imagen; por su concepción de la evolución y el cambio que trazaron nuevas formas de aprehender los procesos fisiológicos; y en fin, por su vanguardista modo de entender la consciencia y la relación entre esta y el entorno. El volumen que tiene el lector entre sus manos reúne las investigaciones de 8 académicos colombianos y extranjeros en torno al pensamiento de Bergson. Este libro se divide en tres secciones temáticas: la primera se centra en los conceptos fundamentales de Bergson, en particular en los de tiempo, memoria, percepción, atención, espíritu y cuerpo; la segunda aborda la influencia y lectura del pensamiento bergsoniano que se manifiestan en algunos filósofos contemporáneos de primer orden; finalmente, la tercera sección está reservada a reflexiones sobre el pensamiento de Bergson que atañen el campo de la filosofía política y social.
En affirmant que « tout philosophe a deux philosophies : la sienne et celle de Spinoza », Bergson exprime avant tout que le philosophe se doit de rompre avec une pensée dogmatique qui n’a plus lieu ...d’être et que Spinoza incarne tout particulièrement. Le spinozisme manifeste la pente de l’intelligence lorsqu’elle suit sa logique propre sans être rectifiée par le recours à l’expérience. Or, c’est cette démarche systématique que la philosophie doit désormais abandonner. Bergson est néanmoins hanté par la pensée de Spinoza et le rapport qu’il entretient avec lui, en particulier dans ses cours au Collège de France, met en évidence un lien bien plus complexe et subtil qu’un simple rapport d’opposition. Contre la tendance à la clôture et à la systématicité, Bergson va alors privilégier chez Spinoza la tendance à l’ouverture et au mysticisme. En mettant en lumière cet aspect, cet ouvrage montre la sympathie intellectuelle qui réunit ces penseurs autour des notions de joie et de liberté. C’est pourquoi la figure du Christ va constituer un modèle non seulement éthique mais ontologique. Le terme de mysticisme, chez ces deux auteurs, ne désigne ni le refus de l’expérience ni celui des sciences positives mais renvoie à un rationalisme élargi jusqu’à l’amour du réel.
