TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guerlac,Suzanne
TI  - Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson 
SN  - 9781501716980
U1  - 194 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Biography & Autobiography
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 20th century philosophers
KW  - analytic philosopher
KW  - bergson and philosophy
KW  - bergson intuition
KW  - bergsonisms
KW  - books for film studies
KW  - books for intro to media studies
KW  - books for media studies
KW  - books for philosophers
KW  - books for philosophy majors
KW  - continental philosophy
KW  - cultural studies
KW  - elan vital
KW  - epistemology
KW  - film studies
KW  - french intellectuals
KW  - french literary criticism
KW  - french philosophy in the twentieth centry
KW  - french philospher
KW  - french spiritualism
KW  - gilles deleuze
KW  - henri bergson
KW  - immediate data of consciousness
KW  - influential philosophers
KW  - introduction to henri bergson
KW  - le bergsonisme
KW  - literary criticism
KW  - literary theory
KW  - mallarmean modernism
KW  - matter and memory
KW  - media studies
KW  - metaphysics
KW  - new media studies
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KW  - philosophy of AI
KW  - philosophy of artificial intelligence
KW  - philosophy of language
KW  - philosophy of life
KW  - philosophy of memory
KW  - philosophy of time
KW  - prominent philosophers
KW  - survey of philosophy
KW  - teleological vitalism
KW  - the creative mind
KW  - time and free will
KW  - twentieth century analytic philosophy
KW  - what is continental philosophy
KW  - who is henri bergson
KW  - winner of the nobel prize in literature
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Note on Translations --; 1. Bergson and Bergsonisms --; 2. From the Certainties of Mechanism to the Anxieties of Indeterminism --; 3. Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience [Time and Free Will] --; 4. Matter and Memory: Essay on the Relation between Body and Mind --; 5. Channels of Contemporary Reception --; 6. Current Issues --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - ‹p›‹b›"Under the aegis of time Suzanne Guerlac displaces matter, intuition, memory, and vitalism of the early twentieth century into the wake of poststructuralism and the dilemmas of nature and culture here and now. This book is a landmark for anyone working in the currents of philosophy, science, and literature. The force and vision of the work will enthuse and inspire every one of its readers."‹/b›-Tom Conley, Harvard University‹/p›‹p›"In recent years, we have grown accustomed to philosophical language that is intensely self-conscious and rhetorically thick, often tragic in tone. It is enlivening to read Bergson, who exerts so little rhetorical pressure while exacting such a substantial effort of thought. Bergson's texts teach the reader to let go of entrenched intellectual habits and to begin to think differently—to think in time. Too much and too little have been said about Bergson. Too much, because of the various appropriations of his thought. Too little, because the work itself has not been carefully studied in recent decades."—from ‹b›‹i›Thinking in Time‹/i›‹/b›‹/p›‹p›Henri Bergson (1859–1941), whose philosophical works emphasized motion, time, and change, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. His work remains influential, particularly in the realms of philosophy, cultural studies, and new media studies. In ‹b›‹i›Thinking in Time‹/i›‹/b›, Suzanne Guerlac provides readers with the conceptual and contextual tools necessary for informed appreciation of Bergson's work.‹/p›‹p›Guerlac's straightforward philosophical expositions of two Bergson texts, ‹i›Time and Free Will‹/i› (1888) and ‹i›Matter and Memory‹/i› (1896), focus on the notions of duration and memory—concepts that are central to the philosopher's work. ‹b›‹i›Thinking in Time‹/i›‹/b› makes plain that it is well worth learning how to read Bergson effectively: his era and our own share important concerns. Bergson's insistence on the opposition between the automatic and the voluntary and his engagement with the notions of "the living," affect, and embodiment are especially germane to discussions of electronic culture.‹/p›
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501716980
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