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Notes on Bergson and Descartes

Author : Charles Peguy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532650736
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Notes on Bergson and Descartes written by Charles Peguy and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Péguy (1873–1914) was a French religious poet, philosophical essayist, publisher, social activist, Dreyfusard, and Catholic convert. There has recently been a renewed recognition of Péguy in France as a thinker of unique significance, a reconsideration inspired in large part by Gilles Deleuze’s Différence et répétition, which ranked him with Nietzsche and Kierkegaard. In the English-speaking world, however, access to Péguy has been hindered by a scarcity of translations of his work. This first complete translation of one of his most important prose works, with accompanying interpretive introduction and notes, will introduce English-speaking readers to a new voice, which speaks in a powerful and original way to a modern West in a condition of cultural and spiritual crisis. The immediate circumstance of the writing of this last prose essay, unfinished at the time of Péguy’s early death, was the placing of Henri Bergson’s philosophical works on the Catholic Index, and Péguy’s undertaking to defend his former teacher from his critics, both Catholic and secular. But the subject of Bergson is also a springboard for the exploration of the perennial themes—philosophical, theological, and literary—most central to Péguy’s thought.

Bergson for Beginners

Author : Darcy Butterworth Kitchin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Bergson for Beginners written by Darcy Butterworth Kitchin and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heroism and Passion in Literature

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401201579
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Heroism and Passion in Literature written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, prompted by the publication in 1999 of Moya Longstaffe's remarkable study, Metamorphoses of Passion and the Heroic in French Literature: Corneille, Stendhal, Claudel, further investigates and analyses the multiple appearances of Passion and Heroism in literature. It pursues the exploration of these themes in a variety of cultures (English, French, German, Spanish), genres, and critical approaches. In addition, the chronological span represented is extremely wide. Contributions range from La Fontaine, Molière and Voltaire to Rimbaud and Camus; from Baudelaire to Beckett; from Wagner to Goytisolo. This very diversity gives necessary context, providing scope for reflection and analysis. Although passion seems timeless, can heroism have any real meaning - apart from an individual and existential one - in our postmodern age? Has a notion at the centre of European culture for so many centuries really disappeared from our intellectual and cultural universe? This volume will be of interest to all students of literature, whatever their critical or linguistic allegiance, since it focuses on the varying manifestations of two vital ingredients of all societies and cultures.

The Collected Works of Henri Bergson

Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Works of Henri Bergson written by Henri Bergson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition includes: Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness Creative Evolution Matter and Memory Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict Dreams

Freedom

Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350029173
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Freedom written by Henri Bergson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Bergson and His Influence

Author : A. E. Pilkington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521209714
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Bergson and His Influence written by A. E. Pilkington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1976-10-07 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1976 book outlines the main themes of the philosophy of Henri Bergson and investigates how operative a role he played.

Carnal Spirit

Author : Matthew W. Maguire
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812296109
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Carnal Spirit written by Matthew W. Maguire and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is rare for a thinker of Charles Péguy's considerable stature and influence to be so neglected in Anglophone scholarship. The neglect may be in part because so much about Péguy is contestable and paradoxical. He strongly opposed the modern historicist drive to reduce writers to their times, yet he was very much a product of philosophical currents swirling through French intellectual life at the turn of the twentieth century. He was a passionate Dreyfusard who converted to Catholicism but was a consistent anticlerical. He was a socialist and an anti-Marxist, and at once a poet, journalist, and philosopher. Péguy (1873-1914) rose from a modest childhood in provincial France to a position of remarkable prominence in European intellectual life. Before his death in battle in World War I, he founded his own journal in order to publish what he thought most honestly, and urgently, needed to be said about politics, history, philosophy, literature, art, and religion. His writing and life were animated by such questions as: Is it possible to affirm universal human rights and individual freedom and find meaning in a national identity? How should different philosophies and religions relate to one another? What does it mean to be modern? A voice like Péguy's, according to Matthew Maguire, reveals the power of the individual to work creatively with the diverse possibilities of a given historical moment. Carnal Spirit expertly delineates the historical origins of Péguy's thinking, its unique trajectory, and its unusual position in his own time, and shows the ways in which Péguy anticipated the divisions that continue to trouble us.

Space, Geometry and Aesthetics

Author : P. Rawes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023058361X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Space, Geometry and Aesthetics written by P. Rawes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining multiple modes of spatio-temporal and geometric figurations of life, the author explores how relationships between space, geometry and aesthetics generate productive expressions of subjectivity, developed through Kant's 'reflective subject' and 'geometric' texts by Plato and others towards Deleuze's philosophy of sense.

Henri Bergson: Key Writings

Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826457282
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Henri Bergson: Key Writings written by Henri Bergson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-04-22 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together generous selections from his major texts: Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory, Creative Evolution, Mind-Energy, The Creative Mind, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion and Laughter. In addition it features material from the Melanges never before translated in English, such as the correspondence between Bergson and William James. The volume will be an excellent textbook for pedagogic purposes and a helpful source book for philosophers working across the analytic/continental divide.

Time and Free Will (Annotated Edition)

Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026896815
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Time and Free Will (Annotated Edition) written by Henri Bergson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time and Free Will essay deals with the problem of free will, which Bergson contends is merely a common confusion among philosophers caused by an illegitimate translation of the unextended into the extended, as a means of introducing his theory of duration, which would become highly influential among continental philosophers in the following century.

The Bergsonian Mind

Author : Mark Sinclair
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429665261
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Bergsonian Mind written by Mark Sinclair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Bergson (1859–1941) is widely regarded as one of the most original and important philosophers of the twentieth century. His work explored a rich panoply of subjects, including time, memory, free will and humour and we owe the popular term élan vital to a fundamental insight of Bergson’s. His books provoked responses from some of the leading thinkers and philosophers of his time, including Albert Einstein, William James and Bertrand Russell, and he is acknowledged as a fundamental influence on Marcel Proust. 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 clear 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. An indispensable resource for anyone in Philosophy studying and researching Bergson’s work, The Bergsonian Mind will also interest those in related disciplines, such as Literature, Religion, Sociology and French Studies.

Time and Free Will

Author : Bergson, Henri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317852311
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Time and Free Will written by Bergson, Henri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Henri Louis Bergson was born in Paris, October 18, 1859. He entered the Ecole normale in 1878, and was admitted agrégé de philosophie in 1881 and docteur és lettres in 1889. After holding professorships in various provincial and Parisian lycées, he became maître de conférences at the Ecole normale supérieure in 1897, and since 1900 has been professor at the Collége de France. In 1901 he became a member of the Institute on his election to the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques.

Descartes and the Ingenium

Author : Raphaële Garrod
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004437622
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Descartes and the Ingenium written by Raphaële Garrod and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historically-informed account of the lasting importance of embodied thought in the intellectual trajectory of René Descartes, still remembered today as the founding father of dualism.

Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual

Author : Keith Ansell-Pearson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415237277
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual written by Keith Ansell-Pearson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lucid collection of essays the continental-analytic divide, bringing the virtual to centre stage and arguing its importance for re-thinking such central philosophical questions as time and life.

Cartesian Poetics

Author : Andrea Gadberry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022672316X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Cartesian Poetics written by Andrea Gadberry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of René Descartes and finds them in the philosopher’s implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes’s thought was crucially enabled by poetry and shows how markers of poetic genres from love lyric and elegy to the puzzling forms of the riddle and the anagram betray an impassioned negotiation with the difficulties of thought and its limits. Where others have seen Cartesian philosophy as a triumph of reason, Gadberry reveals that the philosopher accused of having “slashed poetry’s throat” instead enlisted poetic form to contain thought’s frustrations. Gadberry’s approach to seventeenth-century writings poses questions urgent for the twenty-first. Bringing literature and philosophy into rich dialogue, Gadberry centers close reading as a method uniquely equipped to manage skepticism, tolerate critical ambivalence, and detect feeling in philosophy. Helping us read classic moments of philosophical argumentation in a new light, this elegant study also expands outward to redefine thinking in light of its poetic formations.

Descartes and the Ontology of Everyday Life

Author : Deborah J. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192573764
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Descartes and the Ontology of Everyday Life written by Deborah J. Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary invention, discovery and revolutions in scientific, social and political orders. It was a time of expansive automation, biological discovery, rapid advances in medical knowledge, of animal trials and a questioning of the boundaries between species, human and non-human, between social classes, and of the assumed naturalness of political inequality. This book gives a tour through those objects, ordinary and extraordinary, which captivated the philosophical imagination of the single most important French philosopher of this period, René Descartes. Deborah J. Brown and Calvin G. Normore document Descartes' attempt to make sense of the complex, composite objects of human and divine invention, consistent with the fundamental tenets of his metaphysical system. Their central argument is that, far from reducing all the categories of ordinary experience to the two basic categories of substance, mind and body, Descartes' philosophy recognises irreducible composites that resist reduction, and require their own distinctive modes of explanation.

The Philosophy of Lines

Author : Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030653439
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Lines written by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity onwards. Lines can be physical phenomena, cognitive responses to observed processes, or both at the same time. Based on this assumption, the book describes the “philosophy of lines” in art, architecture, and science. The book compares Western and Eastern traditions. It examines lines in the works of Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Henri Michaux, as well as in Chinese and Japanese art and calligraphy. Lines are not merely a matter of aesthetics but also reflect the psychological states of entire cultures. In the nineteenth century, non-Euclidean geometry sparked the phenomenon of the “self-negating line,” which influenced modern art; it also prepared the ground for virtual reality. Straight lines, distorted lines, blurred lines, hot and cold lines, dynamic lines, lines of force, virtual lines, and on and on, lines narrate the development of human civilization.