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For 15 years, Henri Bergson, the most important French philosopher
of the early 20th-century, taught at the Collège de France.
Speaking without notes, most of his classes are now lost to
history, but records of a handful of courses fortuitously survived
thanks to stenographic transcripts. Conveying Bergson’s very
voice, these extraordinary documents are finally presented here in
English. The 1904–1905 lectures are dedicated to the topic of
freedom, or as Bergson put it, “the evolution of the problem of
freedom.” Building on the philosophy of freedom from his first
book, Time and Free Will, he proposes that freedom is not only a
fundamental human experience but characteristic of all life as
such. By retracing how ancient and modern philosophers have dealt
with the delicate question of freedom, Bergson demonstrates the
necessity, and also the radically new character, of his own theory
of freedom. Bergson’s lectures are a feast for many audiences.
For philosophers, they give a fuller picture of his thought and
contain deep reflections on many core topics in philosophy today,
from the nature of time to the difference between brain and mind,
the relation between memory and perception, and the vindication of
freedom over determinism. For intellectual historians, the lectures
are a treasure trove: as a slice of the living thought of a great
thinker; as an extended analysis of the natural and human sciences
of his day; and as a rich commentary on the history of ancient and
modern philosophy. Finally, for cultural historians and literary
scholars, the lectures were the cultural capital of Belle Époque
France, consumed by elites and a vast educated public. They are
also part of an exceedingly rare genre in modern philosophy:
spoken, not written, lectures and expressed as a veritable stream
of philosophical consciousness that is remarkably structured and
analytically lucid.
The Dictionary of Dreams provides the necessary tools to interpret
almost every dream object and its hidden meaning to better
understand what your subconscious is telling you. Now in a
pocket-size edition for easy, on-the-go instruction. Dreams can be
fun and adventurous, but also frightening and distorted, and still
again, they can be an endless combination of both. From spitting
teeth out (a sign of aging), to creepy, crawly spiders (a sign that
one feels like an outsider), dreams can mean much more to us once
we learn how to decipher their hidden meanings. Whether positive or
negative, The Dictionary of Dreams gives you all the tools,
symbols, and their true meanings to translate our cryptic nightly
images. Starting with selections from classic texts like
Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, the father of
psychoanalysis, and 10,000 Dreams Interpreted by Gustavus Hindman
Miller, one of the first authors to complete a thorough study of
all the symbols that appear in our dreamscape, this updated edition
features revisions (such as the addition of cell phones, computers,
televisions, and more) of Miller's original interpretations to
bring the book up to speed with our modern life.
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Creative Evolution (Hardcover)
Henri Bergson; Translated by Donald Landes; Foreword by Elizabeth Grosz
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R1,683
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A major new translation of one of the an important philosophical
work of the twentieth century, presenting Bergson's masterwork to a
new generation of readers This new translation improves enormously
on the quality of the previous translation, the only one available
since 1911 Includes a host of additional new features, many
translated for the first time including a comprehensive table of
contents; a translation glossary; letters and reviews by William
James, Georges Canguilhelm and Gilles Deleuze; full scholarly notes
to each chapter Responses by Bergson to many of these, and many of
which have been translated for the first time. Translated by Donald
Landes, whose translation of Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge
2011, 2013) has already achieved classic status.
"Since the end of the last century," Walter Benjamin wrote,
"philosophy has made a series of attempts to lay hold of the 'true'
experience as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the
standardized, denatured life of the civilized masses. It is
customary to classify these efforts under the heading of a
philosophy of life. Towering above this literature is Henri
Bergson's early monumental work, Matter and Memory."Along with
Husserl's Ideas and Heidegger's Being and Time, Bergson's work
represents one of the great twentieth-century investigations into
perception and memory, movement and time, matter and mind. Arguably
Bergson's most significant book, Matter and Memory is essential to
an understanding of his philosophy and its legacy.This new edition
includes an annotated bibliography prepared by Bruno Paradis.
The Dictionary of Dreams provides the necessary tools to interpret
almost every dream object and its hidden meaning to better
understand what your subconscious is telling you. Dreams can be fun
and adventurous, but also frightening and distorted, and still
again, they can be an endless combination of both. From spitting
teeth out (a sign of aging), to creepy, crawly spiders (a sign that
one feels like an outsider), dreams can mean much more to us once
we learn how to decipher their hidden meanings. Whether positive or
negative, The Dictionary of Dreams gives you all the tools,
symbols, and their true meanings to translate our cryptic nightly
images. Starting with selections from classic texts like
Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, the father of
psychoanalysis, and 10,000 Dreams Interpreted by Gustavus Hindman
Miller, one of the first authors to complete a thorough study of
all the symbols that appear in our dream-scape, this updated
edition features revisions (such as the addition of cell phones,
computers, televisions, and more) of Miller's original
interpretations to bring the book up to speed with our modern life.
Elegantly designed and beautifully illustrated, the Complete
Illustrated Encyclopedia series offers comprehensive,
display-worthy references on a range of intriguing topics,
including birthday astrology, techniques for harnessing the power
of dreams, flower meanings, and the stories behind signs and
symbols.
"With its signal distinction between 'intuition' and 'analysis' and
its exploration of the different levels of Duration (Bergson's term
for Heraclitean flux), An Introduction to Metaphysics has had a
significant impact on subsequent twentieth century thought. The
arts, from post-impressionist painting to the stream of
consciousness novel, and philosophies as diverse as pragmatism,
process philosophy, and existentialism bear its imprint. Consigned
for a while to the margins of philosophy, Bergson's thought is
making its way back to the mainstream. The reissue of this
important work comes at an opportune time, and will be welcomed by
teachers and scholars alike." --Peter A. Y. Gunter, University of
North Texas
Bloechl (philosophy, Catholic U. of Leuven, Belgium) provides an
introduction to this collection of 12 essays, all of which are
published here for the first time in English (some have appeared
previously in other languages or have been delivered as lectures).
Arrangement is in sections on relations with others, and the
question of God. A sampling of topics: the alterity of the stranger
and the experience of the alien (Robert Bernasconi), Levinas from
phenomenology to the immemorial (Michael Newman), and Levinas's God
and Freud's trauma (Rudi Visker). The volume is not indexed.
A monumental work by an important philosopher, "Matter and Memory"
represents one of the great inquiries into perception and memory,
movement and time, matter and mind. Henri Bergson surveys these
independent but related spheres, exploring the connection of mind
and body to individual freedom of choice. Essential to an
understanding of Bergson's philosophy and its legacy, this volume
appears on the Malaspina Great Books Core Reading List.
MATTER AN D MEMORY HENRI BERGSON MEMBIR OF THE INSTITUTE PKOFE8SOR
AT THE COLLEGE DE I-RANGE Authorized Translation by NANCY MARGARET
PAUL AND W. SCOTT PALMER LONDON GEORGE ALLEN UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN
HOUSE, MUSEUM STREET, W, C. NEW YORK i THE MACMILLAN CO. FIRST
PUBLISHED January 191 1 REPRINTED January 1912, March 1913
September 1919 TRANSLATORS NOTE THIS translation of Monsieur
Bergsons Matibre et MSmoire has been made from the fifth edition of
1908, and has had the great advantage of being revised in proof by
the author. Monsieur Bergson has also written a new Introduction
for it, which supersedes that which accompanied the original work.
The translators offer their sincere thanks to the author for his
invaluable help in these matters and for many suggestions made by
him while the book was in manuscript. They beg leave to call the
readers attention to the fact that all the marginal notes are
peculiar to the English edition and that, although Mon sieur
Bergson has been good enough to revise them, he is not responsible
for their insertion or character, since they form no part of his
own plan for the book N. M. P. W. S. P. INTRODUCTION THIS book
affirms the reality of spirit and the reality of matter, and tries
to determine the rela tion of the one to the other by the study of
a defi nite example, that of memory. It is, then, frankly
dualistic. But, on the other hand, it deals with body and mind in
such a way as, we hope, to lessen greatly, if not to overcome, the
theoretical difficulties which have always beset dualism, and which
cause it, though suggested by the immediate verdict of
consciousness and adopted by common sense, to be held in small
honour among philoso phers. Thesedifficulties are due, for the most
part, to the conception, now realistic, now idealistic, which
philosophers have of matter. The aim of our first chapter is to
show that realism and idealism both go too far, that it is a
mistake to reduce matter to the perception which we have of it, a
mistake also to make of it a thing able to produce in us
perceptions, but in itself of another nature than they. Matter, in
our view, is an aggregate of images And by image we mean a certain
existence which is more than that which the idealist calls a
representation, but less than that which the realist calls a thing,
an vii VU1 INTRODUCTION existence placed half-way between the thing
and the representation This conception of matter is simply that of
common sense. It would greatly astonish a man unaware of the
specula tions of philosophy if we told him that the object before
him, which he sees and touches, exists only in his mind and for his
mind, or even, more gener ally, exists only for mind, as Berkeley
held. Such a man would always maintain that the object exists
independently of the consciousness which perceives it. But, on the
other hand, we should astonish him quite as much by telling him
that the object is entirely different from that which is perceived
in it, that it has neither the colour as cribed to it by the eye,
nor the resistance found in it by the hand. The colour, the
resistance, are, for him, in the object they are not states of our
mind they are part and parcel of an existence really independent of
our own. For common sense, then, the object exists in itself, and,
on the other hand, the object is, in itself, pictorial, as we
perceive it image it is, but a self-existing image. This isjust the
sense in which we use the word image in our first chapter. We place
ourselves at the point of view of a mind unaware of the dis putes
between philosophers, Such a mind would naturally believe that
matter exists just as it is perceived and, since it is perceived as
an image the mind would make of it, in itself, an image. In a word,
we consider matter before tibe dissocia tion which idealism and
realism have brought INTRODUCTION Ix about between its existence
and its appearance...
The Nobel Laureate discusses not only how and why he became a
philosopher but also his conception of philosophy as a field
distinct from science and literature. A source of inspiration for
physicists as well as philosophers, Bergson's essays declare the
emphasis of intuition over intellect.
For 15 years, Henri Bergson, the most important French philosopher
of the early 20th-century, taught at the Collège de France.
Speaking without notes, most of his classes are now lost to
history, but records of a handful of courses fortuitously survived
thanks to stenographic transcripts. Conveying Bergson’s very
voice, these extraordinary documents are finally presented here in
English. The 1904–1905 lectures are dedicated to the topic of
freedom, or as Bergson put it, “the evolution of the problem of
freedom.” Building on the philosophy of freedom from his first
book, Time and Free Will, he proposes that freedom is not only a
fundamental human experience but characteristic of all life as
such. By retracing how ancient and modern philosophers have dealt
with the delicate question of freedom, Bergson demonstrates the
necessity, and also the radically new character, of his own theory
of freedom. Bergson’s lectures are a feast for many audiences.
For philosophers, they give a fuller picture of his thought and
contain deep reflections on many core topics in philosophy today,
from the nature of time to the difference between brain and mind,
the relation between memory and perception, and the vindication of
freedom over determinism. For intellectual historians, the lectures
are a treasure trove: as a slice of the living thought of a great
thinker; as an extended analysis of the natural and human sciences
of his day; and as a rich commentary on the history of ancient and
modern philosophy. Finally, for cultural historians and literary
scholars, the lectures were the cultural capital of Belle Époque
France, consumed by elites and a vast educated public. They are
also part of an exceedingly rare genre in modern philosophy:
spoken, not written, lectures and expressed as a veritable stream
of philosophical consciousness that is remarkably structured and
analytically lucid.
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Le rire
Henri Bergson
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R512
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The twentieth century - with its unprecedented advances in
technology and scientific understanding - saw the birth of a
distinctively new and 'modern' age. Henri Bergson stood as one of
the most important philosophical voices of that tumultuous time. An
intellectual celebrity in his own life time, his work was widely
discussed by such thinkers as William James, Alfred North Whitehead
and Bertrand Russell, as well as having a profound influence on
modernist writers such as Wallace Stevens, Willa Cather and Wyndham
Lewis and later thinkers, most notably Gilles Deleuze."Key
Writings" brings together Bergson's most essential writings in a
single volume, including crucial passages from such major work as
"Time and Free Will," "Matter and Memory," "Creative Evolution,"
"Mind-Energy," "The Creative Mind," "The Two Sources of Morality
and Religion" and "Laughter." The book also includes Bergson's
correspondences with William James and a chronology of his life and
work.
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Dreams
Henri Bergson
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R209
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