Vestiges of a Philosophy

John Ó Maoilearca is an honorary professor at Kingston University, London. He previously lectured in the philosophy departments of the University of Sunderland, England, and the University of Dundee, Scotland. He has published eleven books, including Philosophy and the Moving Image: Refractions of Reality (2010) and All Thoughts Are Equal: Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy (2015). Ó Maoilearca specializes in the areas of Continental Philosophy, film philosophy, metaphysics (especially of time and identity), and metaphilosophy.

• AcknowledgementsPrologue: A Reciprocity of AccelerationStrange Memory: An Introduction in Five Parts 1° = 10° Zelator CovariantOne: Ordinary Mysticism, the Hyperbolic, and the SupernormalTwo: Meet the Bergsons10° = 1° Ipsissimus Covariant (Neophyte)Three: Hyper-RitualFour: "O My Bergson, You Are a Magician"Five: On Watery Logic, or Magical Thinking2° = 9° Theoricus CovariantSix: Of the Survival of ImagesSeven: On the Meta-Spiritual4° = 7° Philosophus CovariantEight: Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum: "Leave No Trace"3° = 8° Practicus CovariantNine: Spirit in the Materialist WorldTen: Veridical Hallucinations and Circumstantial Evidence Epilogue: The Whole of the MoonBibliographyNotes

In this revelatory study of the intersecting interests of mystic Mina Bergson and her brother, philosopher Henri Bergson, Ó Maoilearca meticulously and cautiously tracks philosophical developments from nineteenth-century spiritualism to recent new materialism. In the process, he does no less than uncover occulture's and analytical philosophy's correlated investments in both spiritualism and materialism during the modernist period. This book will prove foundational to the study of modern mysticism as philosophical engagement and materialist analysis.