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⚂ Bergson, H. (2023).
Creative evolution
(D. A. Landes, Trans.). Routledge.
First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergson’s
L’évolution créatrice is a scintillating and radical
work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. This outstanding new translation, the first for over a
hundred years, brings one of Bergson’s most important and ambitious
works to a new generation of readers. … A sympathetic though
critical reader of Darwin, Bergson argues in Creative Evolution against a
mechanistic, reductionist view of evolution. For Bergson, all life emerges
from a creative, shared impulse, which he famously terms élan vital
and which passes like a current through different organisms and
generations over time. Whilst this impulse remains as forms of life
diverge and multiply, human life is characterized by a distinctive form of
consciousness or intellect that is modeled upon how objects or parts of
objects are juxtaposed in space. Yet as Bergson brilliantly shows, the
intellect’s fragmentary and action-oriented nature, which he likens
to the cinematograph, means it alone cannot grasp nature’s
creativity and invention over time. A major task of Creative Evolution is
to reconcile these two elements. For Bergson, the answer famously lies in
intuition, which brings instinct and intellect together and takes us
“into the very interior of life.” … A work of great
rigor and imaginative richness that contributed to Bergson winning the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927, Creative Evolution played an important
and controversial role in the trajectory of twentieth-century philosophy
and continues to create significant discussion and debate. The philosopher
and psychologist William James, who admired Bergson’s work, was
writing an introduction to the first English translation of the book before
his death in 1910. … This new translation includes a foreword by
Elizabeth Grosz and a helpful translator’s introduction by Donald
Landes. Also translated for the first time are additional notes, articles,
reviews, and letters on the reception of Creative Evolution in biology,
mathematics, and theology. This edition includes fascinating commentaries
by philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges Canguilhem, and Gilles
Deleuze.
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Duration, temporality, self: Prospects for the future of Bergsonism.
Peter Lang AG.
According to Bergson, time is an integral feature of real things, just as
much as their material or size. When a flower grows, it takes a period of
real time for it to flourish, which cannot be quickened or slowed down, nor
can it be eliminated from the process of growth. Bergson named this real
time ‘duration’ and argued that everything and everyone exist
as duration, and that internal processes flow into one another, with no
clear boundaries that separate one phase of duration from another.
According to Bergson’s philosophy, the past does not disappear but
smoothly flows into the present, forming an indivisible dynamic unity.
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⚂ Hirai, Y. (Ed.). (2023).
Bergson's scientific metaphysics: Matter and memory today.
Bloomsbury Publishing.
This collection of essays is based on the international symposium titled
‘The Anatomy of Matter and Memory: Bergson and Contemporary Theories
of Perception, Time, and Mind’ held in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan, in
December 2015. It includes essays based on the manuscripts presented by
all twelve presenters, three short chapters inspired by them (chapters 5,
10 and 15) and the ‘manifesto’ (see below, chapter 16).
… As the title of the symposium indicates, this project aims to
thoroughly examine the philosophical potential of Henri Bergson’s
masterpiece Matter and Memory – said to be his most difficult book
– by examining it from the perspective of contemporary analytical
metaphysics and scientific theory. In fact, given the science-informed
metaphysical nature of the original work, this is not the first attempt to
establish such a connection between Bergson and modern science. Our study
would not have been feasible without those previous studies conducted in
the 1980s and 1990s (Gallois and Forzy 1997, Mullarkey 1999, Papanicolaou
and Gunter 1987). However, because of the changes in the field described
below, the present attempt introduces new meaning that has remained
underexamined in previous studies.
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Edited by Edward Craig. London: Routledge.
A good resource for undergraduate students interested in a thematic
overview of Bergson’s thought, commencing with his interest in the
concept of time and culminating in his biological and sociobiological
reflections.
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⚂ Lundy, C. (2018).
Deleuze's Bergsonism.
EUP.
Criticisms advanced by contemporaries of Bergson must be read with this
contextual backdrop in mind. Bergson was not merely a philosopher, he was
“the most dangerous man in the world” (Lippmann 1912:
100–1). Julien Benda, the self-proclaimed
‘anti-Bergson,’ certainly felt this way, announcing that he
“would happily have killed Bergson if this was the only way to
destroy his influence” (Grogin 1988: ix). The vague-but pervasive
influence of Bergsonism also helps to account for why Bergson was
criticised from all directions. Attacks on Bergson were mounted from the
Left and the Right, the Catholic Church and Jewish intellectuals, the
apostles of ‘science’ and defenders of philosophical tradition
in the Sorbonne – “not only, then, his natural enemies, but
the enemies of his enemies” (Merleau-Ponty 1962: 133). …
Although the work of Julien Benda has been largely forgotten today, the
same cannot be said for two of Bergson’s other major critics:
Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein. Russell’s unfavourable
estimation of Bergson is most widely known from his bestselling History of
Western Philosophy. 5 Of Russell’s thirty-one chapters in this text,
only the last four deal with contemporary figures: Bergson, James, Dewey,
and “the philosophy of logical analysis.” But while Russell
felt obliged to include an entry on Bergson, he did his utmost to tarnish
Bergson’s reputation in the process. Aside from claiming in his
opening that Bergson’s philosophy “harmonized easily with the
movement which culminated in Vichy,” Russell equates Bergson with
ants and bees (in contrast to humans) – presumably an attempt at
humour, but one that demonstrates how poorly Russell read Bergson (Russell
1945: 791 and 793). 6 Perhaps of even greater consequence for his
reputation was Bergson’s confrontation with Einstein. In April of
1922 Bergson and Einstein locked horns at the Société
française de philosophie. After listening to Bergson speak for half
an hour about the nature of time, space and his interpretation of special
relativity, Einstein dismissively replied that the time of which the
philosopher speaks does not exist – there is only a psychological
time that differs from the time of physicists (Canales 2015: 5). In the
ensuing controversy, vigorously pursued by advocates of the two
intellectual giants, Bergson was perceived by many to have lost the
debate. … The direct harm caused by Russell and Einstein’s
personal opinions of Bergson, however, should not be overplayed. Of far
greater import for the future reception of Bergson were the broader
directions that academia took following the zenith of Bergsonism. As
Jimena Canales notes, the debate between Bergson and Einstein marks an
important moment in the twentieth-century process whereby
‘science,’ whatever is meant by that term, is partitioned from
‘the rest’ of academia (Canales 2015: 7). Bergson’s fate
is thus caught up in the more general movement by which science eclipses
philosophy, which perhaps explains why Bergson is barely mentioned in the
existing biographies of Einstein despite the significance of their
disagreement during the 1920s (Canales 2015: 359). As for the discipline
of philosophy itself, it too headed in new directions after the Great War
that could not accommodate a place for Bergson: on the one hand, the
so-called ‘analytic’ tradition (which presently dominates most
philosophy departments) and on the other hand a tradition stemming from
German existentialism, Hegelianism, and the phenomenology of Husserl and
Heidegger. While the former tradition viewed Bergson to be
‘anti-intellectual,’ proponents of the latter frequently
portrayed him as a naïve psychologist out of step with the new vogue.
As a result, Bergson was largely considered by the next generation of
philosophers to be passé – that is when he was considered at
all.
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Bergson and philosophy.
Edinburgh University Press.
A comprehensive introduction to the works and key ideas of Henri Bergson.
The first four chapters are organized into surveys of four main texts,
including
Matter and Memory
and
The Two Sources.
It then explores a number of Bergson’s key problems, organized
thematically to cover ethics, ontology, methodology, and metaphilosophy.
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⚂ Posteraro, T. S. (2022).
Bergson’s Philosophy of biology: Virtuality, tendency and time.
EUP.
This is a book on Henri Bergson as a philosopher of biology, for readers
new to Bergson, Bergson scholars, and philosophers of science interested
in but unfamiliar with his views.
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⚂ Sinclair, M. (2020).
Bergson.
Routledge.
In this clear and engaging introduction, Mark Sinclair examines the full
range of Bergson’s work. The book sheds new light on familiar
aspects of Bergson’s thought, but also examines often ignored
aspects of his work, such as his philosophy of art, his philosophy of
technology and the relation of his philosophical doctrines to his
political commitments. After an illuminating overview of his life and
work, chapters are devoted to the following topics:
– the experience of time as duration
–the experience of freedom
–memory
–mind and world
–laughter and humour
– knowledge
–art and creativity
–the élan vital as a theory of biological life
–ethics, religion, war and modern technology.
–Contains a Chronology.
⚂ Sinclair, M., & Wolf, Y. (Eds.). (2022).
The Bergsonian mind.
Routledge.
The Bergsonian Mind
is an outstanding, wide-ranging volume covering the major aspects of
Bergson’s thought, from his early influences to his continued
relevance and legacy. Thirty-six chapters by an international team of
leading Bergson scholars are divided into five parts:
–Sources and Scene
–Mind and World
–Ethics and Politics
–Reception
–Bergson and Contemporary Thought.
In these sections, fundamental topics are examined, including time,
freedom and determinism, memory, perception, evolutionary theory,
pragmatism and art. Bergson’s impact beyond philosophy is also
explored in chapters on Bergson and spiritualism, physics, biology, cinema
and post-colonial thought.
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