Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual - Bergson and the Time of Life

Informationen zum Autor Keith Ansell-Pearson, Keith Ansell Pearson Klappentext With the development of new technologies and the Internet, the notion of the virtual has grown increasingly important. In this lucid collection of essays, Pearson bridges the continental-analytic divide in philosophy, bringing the virtual to centre stage and arguing its importance for re-thinking such central philosophical questions as time and life. Drawing on philosophers from Bergson, Kant and Nietzsche to Proust, Russell, Dennett and Badiou, Pearson examines the limits of continuity, explores relativity, and offers a concept of creative evolution. Zusammenfassung This lucid collection of essays the continental-analytic divide, bringing the virtual to centre stage and arguing its importance for re-thinking such central philosophical questions as time and life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Introducing Time as a Virtual Multiplicity 2. 'A Life of the Real' and a Single Time: Relativity and Virtual Multiplicity 3. Duration and Evolution: The Time of Life 4. The Simple Virtual: A Renewed Thinking of the One 5. The Elan Vital as an Image of Thought: Bergson and Kant on Finality 6. Virtual Image: Bergson on Matter and Perception 7. Redeeming the Time of Life: From Psychology to an Ontology of the Virtual Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Keith Ansell-Pearson, Keith Pearson Ansell-Pearson, Keith Ansell Pearson, Pearson Keith Ansell
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2001
• EAN: 9780415237277
• ISBN: 978-0-415-23727-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Internet Guides und Onlinedienste, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Internet Guides & Online Services, Internet guides and online services, COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Services & APIs