Henri Bergson: Key WritingsKeith Ansell Pearson, John Ó Maoilearca 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. |
Contents
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Time and Free Will | 47 |
Matter and Memory | 79 |
MindEnergy | 139 |
Creative Evolution | 169 |
Duration and Simultaneity | 203 |
The Creative Mind | 221 |
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abstract action actual afferent nerves appears associationism become Bergson body brain centre cerebral Collège de France complete conception consciousness continuity Creative Evolution Descartes distinct doctrine duration elements emotion empiricism evolution existence experience express external fact feeling give habits Henri Bergson homogeneous homogeneous space human hypothesis idea idealism illusion imagine individual indivisible infinite instant intellect intelligence interval intuition Kant kind knowledge living mathematical matter Matter and Memory means mechanism metaphysics mind morality motion movement multiplicity nature object obligation organism ourselves past perceived perception philosophy position positive science possible precisely present problem psychical psychology pure memory realism reality reason recollection relation representation sensations sense simple simultaneity social society Socrates soul space speak succession suppose tendency theory theory of relativity things thought Translator's note truth TSMR unextended universe virtual visual perception whole word