Guerlac, Suzanne.

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.

9781501716980


Bergson, Henri.


Electronic books.

B2430.B43.G847 2006

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