Thinking in Time : An Introduction to Henri Bergson.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (247 pages)
THINKING IN TIME -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Translations -- 1. Bergson and Bergsonisms -- 2. From the Certainties of Mechanism to the Anxieties of Indeterminism -- 3. Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience) -- 4. Matter and Memory -- 5. Channels of Contemporary Reception -- 6. Current Issues -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.