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Inventing Bergson

Mark Antliff
Inventing Bergson Book PDF

Author : Mark Antliff
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art, French
ISBN : 0691032025

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At the turn of the century the philosophy of Henri Bergson captivated France, and Bergson's theories of intuition and elan vital influenced artistic and political notions of the supreme individual, the collective consciousness of a class or race, and the esprit of the nation itself. Here Mark Antliff demonstrates how various artists in prewar France positioned themselves and their art in this plurality of political discourse. By interrelating such movements as Futurism, Cubism, and Fauvism, he elucidates the pervasive impact of Bergson on Modernism in Europe, especially in terms of theories of organic form. Antliff defines the anarcho-individualism of Gino Severini as it relates to the anarcho-syndicalism of other Futurists, and contrasts both to the Puteaux Cubists, who embraced a leftist discourse of Celtic nationalism. All these groups, including the Rhythmists, an international group of Fauve painters, defined their Bergsonism in reaction to the campaign against Bergson launched by the royalist organization L'Action Francaise. Antliff shows that the organicism central to the Bergsonism of these leftist groups had a postwar legacy in fascist ideologies in France and Italy, and charts the transformation of an anticapitalist critique into the politics of reaction. Thus Antliff relates the Bergsonism of these movements to the larger political culture confronted by the Parisian avant-garde, exposing the volatile relation of art and culture to ideology in prewar France.

Bergson

Mark Sinclair
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Author : Mark Sinclair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315414911

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Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most celebrated and influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He was awarded in 1928 the Nobel prize for literature for his philosophical work, and his controversial ideas about time, memory and life shaped generations of thinkers, writers and artists. In this clear and engaging introduction, Mark Sinclair examines the full range of Bergson's work. The book sheds new light on familiar aspects of Bergson’s thought, but also examines often ignored aspects of his work, such as his philosophy of art, his philosophy of technology and the relation of his philosophical doctrines to his political commitments. After an illuminating overview of his life and work, chapters are devoted to the following topics: the experience of time as duration the experience of freedom memory mind and body laughter and humour knowledge art and creativity the élan vital as a theory of biological life ethics, religion, war and modern technology With a final chapter on his legacy, Bergson is an outstanding guide to one of the great philosophers. Including chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary, it is essential reading for those interested in metaphysics, time, free will, aesthetics, the philosophy of biology, continental philosophy and the role of European intellectuals in World War I.

Anarchist Modernism

Allan Antliff
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Author : Allan Antliff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226021041

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Reveals that during the World War I era modernists participated in a wide-ranging anarchist movement that encompassed lifestyles, literature, and art, as well as politics.

Bergson and History

Leon ter Schure
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Author : Leon ter Schure
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438476230

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Explores the philosophy of history of Henri Bergson and shows its relevance to contemporary historical thought. Henri Bergson is famous for his explorations of time as duration, yet he rarely referred to history in his writings. Simultaneously, historians and philosophers of history have generally disregarded Bergson’s ideas about the nature of time. Modernity has brought change at an ever-accelerating rate, and one of the results of this has been a tendency toward presentism. Only the here and now matters, as past and future have been absorbed by the “omnipresent present” of the digital age. In highlighting the role of history in the work of Bergson, Bergson and History shows how his philosophy of life allows us to revise the modern conception of history. Bergson’s philosophy situates history within a broader framework of life as a creative becoming, allowing us to rethink important topics in the study of history, such as historical time, the survival of the past, and historical progress. “Bergson and History is groundbreaking and merits a wide readership in the humanities and social sciences. It is full of fresh and original insights. Ter Schure has read widely and deeply, and there is a productive engagement throughout the book with contemporary resources.” — Keith Ansell-Pearson, author of Bergson: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition

Thinking in Time

Suzanne Guerlac
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Author : Suzanne Guerlac
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801473004

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"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." ―Tom Conley, Harvard University "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 Thinking in Time 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 Thinking in Time, Suzanne Guerlac provides readers with the conceptual and contextual tools necessary for informed appreciation of Bergson's work. Guerlac's straightforward philosophical expositions of two Bergson texts, Time and Free Will (1888) and Matter and Memory (1896), focus on the notions of duration and memory--concepts that are central to the philosopher's work. Thinking in Time 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.

Bergson and Philosophy

John Mullarkey
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Author : John Mullarkey
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 9781474471176

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Bergson and Philosophy by John Mullarkey Pdf

This introductory study looks at Bergson's use of philosophical form itself and aims to dispel the view that Bergson ever stuck to one type of philosophy at all, be it vitalism or phenomenology.

Bergson and the Art of Immanence

John O Maoilearca
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Author : John O Maoilearca
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780748670239

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Bergson and the Art of Immanence by John O Maoilearca Pdf

This collection of 16 essays brings 20th-century French philosopher Henri Bergson's work on immanence together with the latest ideas in art theory and the practice of immanent art as found in painting, photography and film. It places Bergson's work and influence in a wide historical context and applies a rigorous conceptual framework to contemporary art theory and practice.

Albert Gleizes

Peter Brooke
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Author : Peter Brooke
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300089643

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Albert Gleizes by Peter Brooke Pdf

Gleizes was also one of the few French painters of the 1920s to recognise nonrepresentational painting as the logical development of Cubism." "His work as a painter is accompanied by an immense body of theoretical work, addressing the question posed so starkly by Duchamp and Picabia: why should we paint? What is the justification for the work of art? Over his life he touches on many spheres of human activity - religious, political and cultural history, physics and the philosophy of work.".

Inventing Peace

Wim Wenders,Mary Zournazi
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Author : Wim Wenders,Mary Zournazi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780857722706

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Inventing Peace by Wim Wenders,Mary Zournazi Pdf

Inventing Peace revolves around the question of how we look at the world, but do not see it when there is so much war, injustice, suffering and violence. What are the ethical and moral consequences of looking, but not seeing, and, most of all, what has become of the notion of peace in all this? In the form of a written dialogue, Wim Wenders and Mary Zournazi consider this question as one of the fundamental issues of our times as well as the need to reinvent a visual and moral language for peace. Inspired by various cinematic, philosophical, literary and artistic examples, Wenders and Zournazi reflect on the need for a change of perception in the everyday as well as in the creation of images. In its unique style and method, Inventing Peace demonstrates an approach to peace through sacred, ethical and spiritual means, to provide an alternative to the inhumanity of war and violence. Their book might help to make peace visible and tangible in new and unforeseen ways.

The New Bergson

John Mullarkey
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Author : John Mullarkey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719055539

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The New Bergson by John Mullarkey Pdf

At the threshold of the twentieth century, Bergson reset the agenda for philosophy and its relationship with science, art and even life itself. Concerned with both examining and extolling the phenomena of time, change, and difference, he was at one point held as both "the greatest thinker in the world" and "the most dangerous man in the world." Yet the impact of his ideas was so all-pervasive among artists, philosophers and politicians alike, that by the end of the First World War it had become impossibly diffuse. In a manner imitating his own cult of change, the Bergsonian school departed from the scene almost as quickly as it had arrived. As part of a current resurgence of interest in Bergson, both in Europe and in North America, this collection of essays addresses the significance of his philosophical legacy for contemporary thought.

Beyond Bergson

Andrea J. Pitts,Mark William Westmoreland
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Author : Andrea J. Pitts,Mark William Westmoreland
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438473512

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Beyond Bergson by Andrea J. Pitts,Mark William Westmoreland Pdf

Examines Bergson’s work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America. Building upon recent interest in Henri Bergson’s social and political philosophy, this volume offers a series of fresh and novel perspectives on Bergson’s writings through the lenses of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory. Contributors place Bergson’s work in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America to examine Bergson’s influence on literature, science studies, aesthetics, metaphysics, and social and political philosophy within these geopolitical contexts. The volume pays particular attention to both theoretical and practical forms of critical resistance work, including historical analyses of anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist movements that have engaged with Bergson’s writings—for example, the Négritude movement, the Indigenismo movement, and the Peruvian Socialist Party. These historical and theoretical intersections provide a timely and innovative contribution to the existing scholarship on Bergson, and demonstrate the importance of his thought for contemporary social and political issues. “This is an exceptionally strong volume that excites and inspires the philosophical imagination; it shows the centrality of questions of race and gender to philosophical inquiry and appropriation.” — Keith Ansell-Pearson, author of Bergson: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition

Interpreting Bergson

Alexandre Lefebvre,Nils F. Schott
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Author : Alexandre Lefebvre,Nils F. Schott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108421157

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Interpreting Bergson by Alexandre Lefebvre,Nils F. Schott Pdf

This book is the first collection in twenty years in English to address the whole of Bergson's philosophy, including his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, aesthetics, ethics, political thought, and religion.

Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism

Paul Ardoin,S. E. Gontarski,Laci Mattison
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Author : Paul Ardoin,S. E. Gontarski,Laci Mattison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441188373

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Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism by Paul Ardoin,S. E. Gontarski,Laci Mattison Pdf

Henri Bergson is frequently cited amongst the holy trinity of major influences on Modernism-literary and otherwise-alongside Sigmund Freud and William James. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism has re-popularized Bergson for the 21st century, so much so that, perhaps, our Bergson is Deleuze's Bergson. Despite renewed interest in Bergson, his influence remains understudied and consequently undervalued. While books examining the impact of Freud and James on Modernism abound, Bergson's impact, though widely acknowledged, has been closely examined much more rarely. Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism remedies this deficiency in three ways. First, it offers close readings and critiques of six pivotal texts. Second, it reassesses Bergson's impact on Modernism while also tracing his continuing importance to literature, media, and philosophy throughout the twentieth and into the 21st century. In its final section it provides an extended glossary of Bergsonian terms, complete with extensive examples and citations of their use across his texts. The glossary also maps the influence of Bergson's work by including entries on related writers, all of whom Bergson either corresponded with or critiqued.

Modernist Time Ecology

Jesse Matz
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Author : Jesse Matz
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421427003

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Modernist Time Ecology by Jesse Matz Pdf

Modernist Time Ecology is a deeply interdisciplinary book that changes what we think literature and the arts can do for the world at large.

T. E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism

Henry Mead
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Author : Henry Mead
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472582010

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T. E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism by Henry Mead Pdf

Drawing on a range of archival materials, this book explores the writing career of the poet, philosopher, art critic, and political commentator T.E. Hulme, a key figure in British modernism. T.E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism reveals for the first time the full extent of Hulme's relationship with New Age, a leading radical journal before the Great War, focussing particularly on his exchange of ideas with its editor, A.R. Orage. Through a ground-breaking account of Hulme's reading in continental literature, and his combative exchanges amongst the bohemian networks of Edwardian London, Mead shows how 'the strange death of Liberal England' coincided with Hulme's emergence as what T.S. Eliot called 'the forerunner of... the twentieth century mind'. Tracing his debts to French Symbolism, evolutionary psychology, Neo-Royalism, and philosophical pragmatism, the book shows how Hulme combined anarchist and conservative impulses in his journey towards a 'religious attitude'. The result is a nuanced account of Hulme's ideological politics, complicating the received view of his work as proto-fascist.