Beyond Bergson

Andrea J. Pitts is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Mark William Westmoreland is a doctoral candidate and instructor of ethics and philosophy at Villanova University.

• Foreword: The Hope for this Volume: SympathyLeonard LawlorAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Creative ExtensionsAndrea J. Pitts and Mark William WestmorelandPart I. Bergson on Colonialism, Social Groups, and the State 1. Decolonizing Bergson: The Temporal Schema of the Open and the ClosedAlia Al-Saji2. The Language of Closure: Homogeneity, Exclusion, and the StateMartin Shuster3. The Politics of Sympathy in Bergson’s The Two Sources of Morality and Religion Melanie WhitePart II. Bergsonian Themes in the Négritude Movement 4. Bergson, Senghor, and the Philosophical Foundations of Negritude: Intellect, Intuition, and KnowledgeClevis Headley5. The Spectacle of Belonging: Henri Bergson’s Comic Negro and the (Im)possibility of Place in the Colonial MetropolisAnnette K. Joseph-GabrielPart III. Race, Revolution, and Bergsonism in Latin America 6. Racial Becomings: Evolution, Materialism, and Bergson in Spanish AmericaAdriana Novoa7. Bergsonism in Postrevolutionary Mexico: Antonio Caso’s Theory of Aesthetic IntuitionAndrea J. Pitts8. Antagonism and Myth: Jose Carlos Mariategui’s Revolutionary BergsonismJaime HannekenBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

"I found each of the authors' contributions to be valuable and insightful … this book would make an invaluable contribution to the library of any Bergson scholar, and those interested in the philosophy of race, or philosophy of liberation, among others." — John W. August III, Eidos"This is a valuable resource for scholars of Bergson, race, and colonialism." — CHOICE"This is an exceptionally strong volume that excites and inspires the philosophical imagination; it shows the centrality of questions of race and gender to philosophical inquiry and appropriation." — Keith Ansell-Pearson, author of Bergson: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition