Reprint of 1911 English Edition. Full facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Matter
and Memory is one of the four main works by the French philosopher
Henri Bergson (1859-1941). Its subtitle is "Essay on the relation
of body and spirit," and the book presents an analysis of the
classical philosophical problems concerning this relation. Within
that framework the analysis of memory serves the purpose of
clarifying the problem. Matter and Memory was written in reaction
to the book The Maladies of Memory by Th odule Ribot, that appeared
in 1881. Ribot claimed that the findings of brain science proved
that memory is lodged within a particular part of the nervous
system; localized within the brain and thus being of a material
nature. Bergson was opposed to this reduction of spirit to matter.
Defending a clear anti-reductionist position, he considered memory
to be of a deeply spiritual nature; the brain serving the need of
orienting present action by inserting relevant memories.
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