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The Bergsonian Mind 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I Sources and scene

1 The roots of Bergson’s concept of duration reconsidered

1.1 Number, space and time in Of Habit

1.2 Delboeuf’s distinction of vulgar and scientific time

1.3 Lemoine and Egger on flowing duration and pure succession

1.4 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

2 Bergson vs. Herbert Spencer

2.1 Time and Free Will: space and time, two multiplicities

2.2 A philosophy of becoming vs. a philosophy of being

2.3 A vital knowledge of life (new vitalism)

2.4 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

3 Bergson at the Collège de France

3.1 The early years of Bergson’s teaching

3.2 A lack of seats

3.3 The Collège vs. the Sorbonne

3.4 Changing regulations

Notes

References

Part II Mind and world

4 Duration: A fluid concept

Notes

Bibliography

5 Bergson on the immediate experience of time

5.1 Homogeneous multiplicity

5.2 Durée

5.3 Durée as the ‘immediate datum’ of experience

5.4 Bergson’s dual-aspect account of temporal experience

5.5 The priority of Durée

5.6 Conclusion: Durée from the ‘conscious spectator’ to the world at large

Notes

Bibliography

6 The perception of change and self-knowledge: Bergson and Kant

6.1 Bergson’s interpretation of Kant’s theory of time

6.2 Space and time in Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetics

6.3 Time consciousness, self-consciousness, and the act of combination

6.4 Space as an a priori form of experience

6.5 Self-consciousness and knowledge of the external world

6.6 Conclusion

Notes

References

7 The Kantian basis of Bergson’s conception of freedom

7.1 Necessity and freedom

7.2 Resolution of the antinomy of freedom

7.3 The fact of freedom

7.4 The heteronomous will and the parasitic self

7.5 Bridging the immense gulf

Notes

Bibliography

8 Character and personality: From a privileged image of durée to the core of a new metaphysics

8.1 Preliminary considerations

8.1.1 The images of personality

8.1.2 The logic of expression in Bergson’s notion of personality

8.2 Personality as the privileged image of duration

8.3 The theory of personality as metaphysics

8.4 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

9 Subject and person in Bergson

Bibliography

10 Attention to life and psychopathology

10.1 Normal psychology

10.2 From the normal to the pathological

10.3 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

11 Bergson on the emotions

11.1 James on the emotions

11.2 Bergson on the emotions in Time and Free Will

11.3 Bergson on aesthetic and moral feelings

11.4 Bergson on creative emotion and the open soul

11.5 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

12 Bergson’s social philosophy of laughter

12.1 Laughter in the history of philosophy

12.2 Rigidity as the source of the comic

12.3 The social meaning of laughter

12.4 Conclusion

Note

References

13 The naïve realism of Henri Bergson

13.1 Isms and images

13.2 Perception and consciousness

13.3 Perception and content

13.4 Affection and attention

13.5 Conclusion

Notes

References

14 Bergson and metaphysical empiricism

14.1 A world of pure experience

14.2 Human experience and nature

14.3 Experience beyond action

14.4 French philosophies of radical experiences

Notes

Bibliography

15 The psychological interpretation of life

15.1 The image

15.2 The psychology of effort

15.3 Élan vital as image for effort

15.3.1

15.3.2

15.3.3

15.4 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

16 Bergson on virtuality and possibility

16.1 Virtuality3

16.1.1 The concept of virtuality in Deleuze’s Bergsonism

16.1.2 The concept of virtuality in Bergson

16.1.2.1 The virtuality of action

16.1.2.2 The virtuality of memory

16.1.3 The merit and limit of the Deleuzian interpretation

16.2 Possibility

16.2.1 Freedom, unpredictability, and retrospective explicability

16.2.2 Tracing the formation of the critique

16.2.3 The structure of the illusion of possibility

16.2.4 Justification for the critique

16.3 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

17 Bergsonian metaphysics: Virtuality, possibility, and creativity

17.1 The actual/virtual distinction and the real/possible distinction

17.2 The implications for metaphysics

Notes

Bibliography

18 Reflections on the notion of system in Creative Evolution

18.1 Naturally, artificially and relatively closed systems

18.2 Philosophical systems

18.3 Bergsonian intuition and the articulations of the real

18.4 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

19 Infinite divisibility vs. absolute indivisibility: What separates Einstein and Bergson

19.1 Einstein

19.2 Bergson

19.3 Indefinitely or infinitely?

19.4 Two thinkers, two world views, two methodologies

Notes

References

Part III Ethics and politics

20 Closed and open societies

20.1 Definition of the closed society

20.2 The closed society and the problem of war

20.3 The source of closed and open societies

20.4 The problematic definition of the open society

20.5 Openness, love, creation

20.6 Mysticism, education, and society

Notes

Bibliography

21 Bergson on emotion and ethical mobilization

21.1 Motion and emotion

21.2 From “static” to “dynamic’’: the impulse of the Jewish prophets

21.3 In the heat of the action: ethical propagation

22 Bergson and sociobiology

22.1 The sociobiology of laughter

22.2 Living and living well

Bibliography

23 The phantom presence of war in Bergson’s Two Sources

23.1 Bergson in 1914–18: a philosopher at war

23.2 Bergsonism in the aftermath of the First World War

23.3 1932: The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

23.3.1 The ambiguous status of war in the Two Sources

23.3.2 The concept of mythmaking function and its relation to the experience of war

23.4 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Part IV Reception

24 Bergson and William James

24.1

24.2

24.3

24.4

Notes

Bibliography

25 Bergson and German philosophy

25.1 Bergson and Jena: a European anti-intellectualist wave

25.2 Berlin: an a-tragic philosophy of life

25.3 Heidelberg: between historicism and naturalism

25.4 Göttingen: immediate intuition and critique of mechanical civilization

25.5 The war and national philosophical identity

Notes

Bibliography

26 The vital impulse and early 20th-century biology

26.1 “Only an image”

26.2 Life as an impulse

26.2.1 An alternative to the finalist/mechanist (false) dichotomy

26.2.2 The vital impulse and the four theories of evolution

26.2.3 The impulse and the meaning of human evolution

26.3 Bergsonian biologists

26.3.1 Creative Evolution and the historiography of biology

26.3.2 The vitalism/mechanism debate

26.3.3 Early 20th-century evolutionism

26.4 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

27 From time to temporality: Heidegger’s critique of Bergson

27.1 Bergson in Being and Time

27.2 Heidegger’s debt to Bergson

Notes

References

28 Russell reading Bergson

28.1 Russell’s encounter with Bergson

28.2 “The Professor’s Guide to Laughter”

28.3 Russell’s 1912 critique of Bergson

28.4 Carr’s reply and Russell’s response

28.5 Costelloe-Stephen’s reply

28.6 Russell rereads Bergson

28.7 Conclusion

Notes

References

29 The concept of substitution in Bergson and Lévinas

29.1 Ethics as first philosophy

29.2 Lévinas and Bergson

29.3 Substitution

29.4 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

30 The way of the Africans: Césaire, Senghor and Bergson’s philosophy

30.1 Négritude and Bergsonism as philosophies of life

30.2 Négritude and Bergsonism on vital knowledge

30.3 Négritude and Bergsonism on creative emotion

Notes

Bibliography

Part V Bergson and contemporary thought

31 Irreducibility, indivisibility, and interpenetration

31.1 Unity

31.2 The irreducible

31.3 Temporality

31.4 Bergson and temporal experience

31.5 Interpenetration

31.6 From unity to interdependence

Notes

Bibliography

32 A Bergsonian response to McTaggart’s paradox

32.1 McTaggart’s paradox in three claims

32.2 La durée, memory and time

32.3 A Bergsonian response to the paradox

32.4 Bergson and the A-series

32.5 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

33 Bergson and process philosophy of biology

33.1 ‘Process’ in contemporary philosophy of biology

33.2 ‘Process’ reconsidered: Bergson

33.3 Conclusions

Acknowledgements

Notes

References

34 Bergson as visionary in evolutionary biology

34.1 The reception of Creative Evolution

34.2 Elan vital as a fluid concept

34.3 The relevance of Bergson’s critique to contemporary biology

34.4 The evocative power of the élan vital today

34.5 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

35 ‘Living pictures’: Bergson, cinema, and film-philosophy

35.1 The cinematographic illusion and the cinematographic mechanism of thought

35.2 The cave and the cinema

35.3 The circle and the centre

35.4 Phantoms of ideas and phantoms of problems

35.5 Movement images and duration images

35.6 Coda: out of sight?

Notes

Bibliography

36 Anti-intellectualism: Bergson and contemporary encounters

36.1 Bergsonian intuition

36.2 For and against irrationalism

36.3 Contemporary anti-intellectualism and irrationalism

36.4 Bergsonian conceptual intuition?

Notes

References

Index

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