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In the early twentieth century, the life philosophy of Henri Bergson summoned the "?lan vital," or vital force, as the source of creative evolution. Bergson also appealed to intuition, which focused on experience rather than discursive thought and scientific cognition. Particularly influential for the literary and political N?gritude movement of the 1930s, which opposed French colonialism, Bergson's life philosophy formed an appealing alternative to Western modernity, decried as "mechanical," and set the stage for later developments in postcolonial theory and vitalist discourse.

Revisiting narratives on life that were produced in this age of machinery and war, Donna V. Jones shows how Bergson, Nietzsche, and the poets Leopold Senghor and Aim? C?saire fashioned the concept of life into a central aesthetic and metaphysical category while also implicating it in discourses on race and nation. Jones argues that twentieth-century vitalism cannot be understood separately from these racial and anti-Semitic discussions. She also shows that some dominant models of emancipation within black thought become intelligible only when in dialogue with the vitalist tradition. Jones's study strikes at the core of contemporary critical theory, which integrates these older discourses into larger critical frameworks, and she traces the ways in which vitalism continues to draw from and contribute to its making.

While a loving gardener plants, cultivates, nurtures, waters, prunes and protects a rose he is mindful of and careful of the thorns. When a storm arises the gardener watches in sadness as his lovely possession that he has so carefully and faithfully cared for becomes weather beaten and bruised but the gardener is able to see all the beauty and potential it once held. The gardener meticulously nursesthe rose back to its health and initial beauty. So it should be in relationships we should nurture and pray for one another while appreciating the rose or strong attributes yet being careful of thorns or faults in our mates, within the pages of this book you will find the key to properly caring for your rose.