Valentine Moulard-Leonard is an independent scholar living in Memphis, Tennessee.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Virtual Empiricism: The Revaluation of the TranscendentalBriefly Mapping Our Experimental Journey1. Bergson’s Genealogy of Consciousness: Freedom and Pure PerceptionThe Immediate Data of Consciousness: Time and Free WillEmerging Consciousness:The Role of the BodyFrom Psychology to Metaphysics: Pure Perception and Beyond2. Introducing Memory: From the Psychological to the VirtualBergsonian Dualisms—Memory and the Brain: Which Survival?Folding Over: The Psychological Is Also Necessarily Virtual3. The Unconscious as Ontology of the VirtualFrom Dualism to Difference The Élan Vital or the Ontologization of DurationMemory as Virtual CoexistenceSense and Sensibility: Bergsonian Positivism4. Between Bergson and Deleuze: The Method of Intuition as Transcendental/Virtual EmpiricismAbsolute Movement and IntuitionIntuition and Superior Empiricism5. Cinematic Thought: The Deleuzean Image and the Crystals of TimeWhy the Cinema?Toward the Crystal-Image: A Vision of the Genesis of Time 6. Proust and Thought: Death, Art, and the Adventures of the Involuntary Death Is the Truth of ThoughtHow Might Death Be Put to Work?Art as the Production of EssencesConclusion. Bergson-Deleuze Encounters: Machinic Becomings and Virtual MaterialsmFirst Question: What Does Deleuze Find in Bergson?Second Question: Why the Image?Third Question: Why Read Deleuze after Bergson? Fourth Question: Which Machinic Becomings?ClosingNotesReferencesIndex

"The relationship between Bergson's and Deleuze's works has yet to be explored fully, and the author makes a strong case for a fundamental continuity in their thought. Her focus on them as advocates of a post-Kantian philosophy of transcendental experience brings to the fore the fundamental ontological and epistemological dimensions of their thought." — Ronald Bogue, author of Deleuze's Wake: Tributes and Tributaries