The new Bergson [Paperback]

Henri Bergson, central to European philosophy at the beginning of the C20th, is returning to that position at the beginning of the C21st. Bergson's legacy reaches across the disciplines of philosophy, humanities and the arts, and has especial relevance for recent film and video studies (in the area of time, change and difference). This collection includes an original essay by Gilles Deleuze, translated into English for the first time. Hugely impressive international cast including not only Deleuze, but also Worms, Gunter, Ansell Pearson and Timothy S. Murphy. The first in the acclaimed Angelaki Humanities series.

Introduction

Part I History and Method

1. Philo, Spinoza, Bergson: The rise of an ecological age - Richarrd A. Cohen

2. Method in Philosophy - Garrett Barden

Part II Ontology

3. Bergson's Conception of Difference - Gilles Deleuze

4. Beneath Relativity: Bergson and Bohm on absolute time - Timothy S. Murphy

Part III Mind

5. A Letter from Bergson to Dewey -

6. Matter and memory on mind and body: final statements and new perspectives - Fr?d?ric Worms

7. Bergson: The keyboards of forgetting - Marie Cariou

8. Bergson's concept of a person - Eric Matthews

9. Magic - F.C.T. Moore

Part IV Life

10. Bergson and creative evolution/Involution: Exposing the transcendental illusion of organismic life - Keith Ansell Pearson

11. Bergson and the war against nature - P.A.Y. Gunter

Part V Art

12. The rhythms of duration: Bergson and the Art of Matisse - Mark Antliff

13. Bergson and cinema: Friends or foes? - Paul Douglass

John Mullarkey is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sunderland