Henri Bergson

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AvVladimir Jankelevitch,Nils F. Schott,Alexandre Lefebvre

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Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir JankÉlÉvitch's Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism renewed interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider Bergson's experiential and religious perspectives. Here JankÉlÉvitch covers all aspects of Bergson's thought, emphasizing the concepts of time and duration, memory, evolution, simplicity, love, and joy. A friend of Bergson's, JankÉlÉvitch first published this book in 1931 and revised it in 1959 to treat Bergson's later works. This unabridged translation of the 1959 edition includes an editor's introduction, which contextualizes and outlines JankÉlÉvitch's reading of Bergson, additional essays on Bergson by JankÉlÉvitch, and Bergson's letters to JankÉlÉvitch.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-08-28
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822359166
ÖversättareNils F. Schott

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Vladimir JankÉlÉvitch (1903-1985) held the chair in moral philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne from 1951 to 1978, and was the author of more than twenty books on philosophy and music.Alexandre Lefebvre is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is the coeditor of Bergson, Politics, and Religion, also published by Duke University Press.Nils F. Schott is James M. Motley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and the translator of several books, including The Helmholtz Curves: Tracing Lost Time, by Henning Schmidgen.

Editors' Preface viiAcknowledgments ixIntroduction. JankÉlÉvitch on Bergson: Living in Time / Alexandre Lefebvre xiIntroduction 11. Organic Totalities 3I. The Whole and Its Elements 4II. The Retrospective View and the Illusion of the Future Perfect 112. Freedom 23I. Actor and Spectator 24II. Becoming 30III. The Free Act 493. Soul and Body 66I. Thought and Brain 66II. Recollection and Perception 79III. Intellection 89IV. Memory and Matter 944. Life 109I. Finality 109II. Instinct and Intellect 119III. Matter and Life 1375. Heroism and Saintliness 151I. Suddenness 152II. The Open and the Closed 156III. Bergson's Maximalism 1596. The Nothingness of Concepts and the Plentitude of Spirit 167I. Fabrication and Organization: The Demiurgic Prejudice 167II. On the Possible 1797. Simplicity . . . and Joy 191I. On Simplicity 191II. Bergson's Optimism 203Appendices 211Supplementary Pieces 247Preface to the First Edition of Henri Bergson (1930) 247Letters to Vladimir JankÉlÉvitch by Henri Bergson 248Letter to Louis Beauduc on First Meeting Bergson (1923) 250What Is the Value of Bergson's Thought? Interview with FranÇoise Reiss (1959) 251Solemn Homage to Henri Bergson (1959) 253Notes 261Bibliography 299Index 315

"JankÉlÉvitch’s intransigent 'Bergsonism'– his faith in intuition and his distrust in contextualization – produced his marvelous Henri Bergson." - Giuseppe Bianco (H-France, H-Net Reviews) "JankÉlÉvitch's Henri Bergson is richly textured with reflections and digressions which sketch in embryonic form conceptual figures that would gain prominence in his later ethical writings. JankÉlÉvitch's book is thus not so much about Bergson, as it is a book through Bergson, and its two-stroke motion of understanding Bergson and of JankÉlÉvitch understanding himself is animated by a joy that gives JankÉlÉvitch's philosophical prose (finely translated by Nils F. Schott) an almost breathless quality." - Nicolas de Warren (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)