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OverviewThis book proposes a new reading of Bergsonism based on the admission that time, conceived as duration, stretches instead of passes. This swelling time is full and so excludes the negative. Yet, swelling requires some resistance, but such that it is more of a stimulant than a contrariety. The notion of élan vital fulfills this requirement: it states the immanence of life to matter, thereby deriving the swelling from an internal effort and allowing its conceptualization as self-overcoming. With self-overcoming as the inner dynamics of reality, Bergson dismisses all forms of dualism and reductionist monism because both the absence of negativity and the swelling nature of time posit a creative process yielding a qualitatively diverse world. This graded oneness is how the lower level activates intensification by turning into limitation, making possible higher levels of achievement, in particular through the union of mind and body and the integration of openness and closed sociability. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Messay KebedePublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2019 Weight: 0.519kg ISBN: 9783030154868ISBN 10: 3030154866 Pages: 291 Publication Date: 07 May 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Intuitive Knowledge via the Inversion of Intelligence Action and Intuition Bergsonism and Theories of Knowledge Epistemological Divergence Intuitive Knowledge as Ideal Genesis Inversion and False Problems Crossing Limitations 3 Duration and Self-Striving In Search of True Time Towards a Dynamic Conception of Time Continuity versus Discontinuity Duration and Consciousness Duration as the Stuff of Reality Duration as Effort Beyond Free Will and Determinism 4 Life as the Inversion of Materiality Being and Nothingness The Negativity of Action Controversy over Negativity Negation without Nothingness The Striving of Self-Limitation Unity versus Analysis Transcending Finalism and Mechanism The Oneness of Life Enduring Striving in lieu of the Eternal 5 Perception and the Genesis of the Subject The Contradictions of Representational Theories of Perception From the Material to the Psychic Perception: Pure and Concrete Materiality and the Notion of Image Bergson and Phenomenology: The Issue of the Subject The Mechanism of Perception Limitation and Perception 6 Memory and the Being of the Subject Memory and Action On the Conservation and Nature of Memory Deleuze and Bergson Intentionality and the Continuity of Consciousness The Actualization of Memory On the Unity of Mind and Body 7 Mysticism or the Overstepping of Nature Halt versus Stage Duality of Source and Self-Overcoming Moral Obligation and Social Conservativism The Natural Society Opening the Natural Overdetermination and Progress Problems of Modernity and the Revaluation of ValuesReviewsAuthor InformationMessay Kebede is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton, Ohio. He has published five books and various articles dealing with African philosophy, philosophical issues of modernization, Ethiopia’s experience with social radicalism, and the philosophy of Bergson. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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