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Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is one of the truly great philosophers of
the modernist period, and there is currently a major renaissance of
interest in his unduly neglected texts and ideas amongst
philosophers, literary theorists, and social theorists. Creative
Evolution (1907) is the text that made Bergson world-famous in his
own lifetime; in it Bergson responds to the challenge presented to
our habits of thought by modern evolutionary theory, and attempts
to show that the theory of knowledge must have its basis in a
theory of life.
Henri Bergson is one of the truly great philosophers of the
modernist period, and his work is undergoing a renaissance of
interest. This collection of his essays and lectures from the
period 1901-13, features ideas on life and consciousness, soul and
body, mind and brain that remain highly pertinent to contemporary
work in the philosophy of mind.
There is currently a major renaissance of interest in Henri
Bergson's unduly neglected texts and ideas amongst philosophers,
literary theorists, and social theorists. "Introduction to
Metaphysics" (1903) contains Bergson's classic statement that to
philosophize is to reverse the habitual directions of our thinking,
as well as his claim that a true empiricism amounts to a true
metaphysics.
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is one of the truly great philosophers of
the modernist period, and there is currently a major renaissance of
interest in his unduly neglected texts and ideas amongst
philosophers, literary theorists, and social theorists. Mind-Energy
is a collection of essays and lectures from the period 1901-13 and
has long been out of print. It features essays on life and
consciousness, soul and body, mind and brain, and on dreams, memory
and the phenomenon of false recognition; the insights Bergson
develops in them remain highly pertinent to contemporary work in
the philosophy of mind.
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Creative Evolution (Hardcover)
H Bergson; Edited by K. Ansell-Pearson, M. Kolkman, M. Vaughan
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R3,228
Discovery Miles 32 280
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Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is one of the truly great philosophers of
the modernist period, and there is currently a major renaissance of
interest in his unduly neglected texts and ideas amongst
philosophers, literary theorists, and social theorists.
"Creative Evolution" (1907) is the text that made Bergson
world-famous in his own lifetime; in it Bergson responds to the
challenge presented to our habits of thought by modern evolutionary
theory, and attempts to show that the theory of knowledge must have
its basis in a theory of life.
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