Bergson and Philosophy
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“[Bergson and Philosophy] is an important work and lucid assessment of an influential philosopher” —Educational Book Review
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Various schools of philosophy over the last eighty years have tried to claim Henri Bergson as one of their own. In France he has been regarded primarily as an early phenomenologist. In the United States and Britain he is still regarded as a vitalist philosopher. Les mer
In pursuit of this approach, John Mullarkey explores each of Bergson's seven major works from a metaphilosophical perspective. The first four chapters of Bergson and Philosophy examine each of these works against the background of current debate within its respective field-the metaphysics of space and time, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of biology, and sociobiology. The remaining four chapters take a problem-based approach, examining the role of ethics, ontology, methodology, and metaphilosophy in Bergson's thought. This book is an important and lucid reassessment of an influential philosopher that sets his work in philosophical contexts.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 218
- ISBN
- 9780268162290
- Utgivelsesår
- 2000
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«
“[Bergson and Philosophy] is an important work and lucid assessment of an influential philosopher” —Educational Book Review
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“Relying on a very nuanced, detailed, sophisticated... reading...Mullarkey recovers from Bergson a genuinely viable process metaphysics that presages Heidegger in its understanding of subjects and objects.... But probably the greatest contribution of the book is its recognition in Bergson of an understanding of the body, or embodiment. In Mullarkey’s deft reconstruction, Bergson rises from the ashes a force to be reckoned with, as viable now as he was at the turn of the last century. Moreover he does so in a way that is valuable to both continental and analytic philosophers.” —International Philosophical Quarterly
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