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Bergson and Phenomenology

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  1. Michael R. Kelly

    1. Department of Philosophy, Boston College, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Bergson’s Phenomenological Reception: the Spirit of a Dialogue of Self-Resistance

    1. Introduction: Bergson’s Phenomenological Reception: the Spirit of a Dialogue of Self-Resistance

      • Michael R. Kelly
      Pages 1-21

  3. Reading Bergson Anew: a Foundation for the Bergson/ Phenomenology Debate

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Intuition and Duration: an Introduction to Bergson’s ‘Introduction to Metaphysics’

      • Leonard Lawlor
      Pages 25-41

    3. Bergson on the Driven Force of Consciousness and Life

      • Rudolf Bernet
      Pages 42-62

    4. Bergson and Merleau-Ponty on Experience and Science

      • Gary Gutting
      Pages 63-77

    5. Man Falls Down: Art, Life and Finitude in Bergson’s Essay on Laughter

      • Stephen Crocker
      Pages 78-97

  4. Intersections: the Bergson/ Phenomenology Debate

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Intuition and Freedom: Bergson, Husserl and the Movement of Philosophy

      • Hanne Jacobs, Trevor Perri
      Pages 101-117

    3. Life, Thinking and Phenomenology in the Early Bergson

      • Dan Zahavi
      Pages 118-133

    4. A Criticism of Sartre’s Concept of Time

      • Pete A Y Gunter
      Pages 134-147

    5. Life as Vision: Bergson and the Future of Seeing Differently

      • Alia Al-Saji
      Pages 148-173

    6. Miracles of Creation: Bergson and Levinas

      • Nicolas de Warren
      Pages 174-200

    7. The Psycho-Physics of Phenomenology: Bergson and Henry

      • John Mullarkey
      Pages 201-220

  5. Life-World and Life: the Fundament of the Bergson/ Phenomenology Debate

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. From the World of Life to the Life-World

      • Pierre Kerszberg
      Pages 223-244

    3. Consciousness or Life? Bergson between Phenomenology and Metaphysics

      • Frédéric Worms
      Pages 245-257

    4. The Failure of Bergsonism

      • Renaud Barbaras
      Pages 258-272

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 273-277
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About this book

Examining the revival of Bergsonism for phenomenology, leading scholars of both areas inaugurate a dialogue long overdue. By assessing phenomenology's readings of Bergson and Bergsonian challenges to phenomenological methods, the essays in this volume explore anew the issues of central concern in contemporary continental philosophy.

Reviews

'Michael Kelly has put together an exceptionally strong collection of essays that seeks a dialogue between Bergson and phenomenology and that features work by both leading continental philosophers and phenomenologists and aspiring young scholars. Such a collection of essays is long overdue. The essays, which cover topics ranging from time, consciousness, and affect to life, evolution, and ethics, are rich and varied. The collection represents a most welcome contribution to the emerging new literature on Bergson and succeeds in showing that Bergson is refreshingly contemporary. Highly recommended. ' - Keith Ansell-Pearson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick

'The virtue of Michael R. Kelly's volume is not only to have reconstructed debates between Bergson and classical phenomenologists but, more importantly, to propose a Bergsonian contribution to such central phenomenological topics as subjectivity, time, embodiment, nothingness, life, and freedom.' - Alexandre Lefebvre, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

'...the publication of this book is so welcome...' -Akos Krassoy, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, Boston College, USA

    Michael R. Kelly

About the editor

ALIA AL-SAJI is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Canada RENAUD BARBARAS is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at l'université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France RUDOLF BERNET is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and President of the Husserl Archives. STEPHEN CROCKER is Associate Professor of Sociology and Humanities at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. NICOLAS DE WARREN is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College, USA, and has been a visiting faculty member of the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research and Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille3 PETE A.Y. GUNTER is currently Regents' University Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas, USA GARY GUTTING teaches at the University of Notre Dame, USA, where he holds the Notre Dame Endowed Chair in Philosophy LEONARD LAWLOR is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University, USA PIERRE KERZSBERG is Professor of Philosophy at University Toulouse, France HANNE JACOBS is a doctoral student in philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and is supported by the Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO). JOHN MULLARKEY has taught philosophy for the last 15 years at the University of Sunderland, England (1994-2004) and the University of Dundee, Scotland (2004 to date). TREVOR PERRI is a doctoral student in philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and is supported by the Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO). FRÉDÉRIC WORMS is Professor at the Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille3 and Director of the Centre international d'étude de la philosophie française contemporaine at the Ecole normale supérieure of Paris, France DAN ZAHAVI is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bergson and Phenomenology

  • Editors: Michael R. Kelly

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230282995

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-20238-2Published: 29 September 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30045-7Published: 29 September 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28299-5Published: 29 September 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 277

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophical Traditions, Phenomenology, Existentialism

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