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Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson, John Ó Maoilearca examines the seemingly very different but nonetheless complementary ideas of philosopher Henri Bergson and his occultist sister, Mina Bergson (aka Moina Mathers), to tackle contemporary themes in current materialist philosophy, memory studies, and the relationship between mysticism and philosophy.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: A Reciprocity of Acceleration
- Strange Memory: An Introduction in Five Parts
- 1° = 10° Zelator Covariant
- One: Ordinary Mysticism, the Hyperbolic, and the Supernormal
- Two: Meet the Bergsons
- 10° = 1° Ipsissimus Covariant (Neophyte)
- Three: Hyper-Ritual
- Four: "O My Bergson, You Are a Magician"
- Five: On Watery Logic, or Magical Thinking
- 2° = 9° Theoricus Covariant
- Six: Of the Survival of Images
- Seven: On the Meta-Spiritual
- 4° = 7° Philosophus Covariant
- Eight: Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum: "Leave No Trace"
- 3° = 8° Practicus Covariant
- Nine: Spirit in the Materialist World
- Ten: Veridical Hallucinations and Circumstantial Evidence
- Epilogue: The Whole of the Moon
- Bibliography
- Notes
About the author
John Ó Maoilearca is an honorary professor at Kingston University, London. He previously lectured in the philosophy departments of the University of Sunderland, England, and the University of Dundee, Scotland. He has published eleven books, including Philosophy and the Moving Image: Refractions of Reality (2010) and All Thoughts Are Equal: Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy (2015). Ó Maoilearca specializes in the areas of Continental Philosophy, film philosophy, metaphysics (especially of time and identity), and metaphilosophy.
Summary
In Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson, John Ó Maoilearca examines the seemingly very different but nonetheless complementary ideas of philosopher Henri Bergson and his occultist sister, Mina Bergson (aka Moina Mathers), to tackle contemporary themes in current materialist philosophy, memory studies, and the relationship between mysticism and philosophy.
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Henri and Mina Bergson form one of the most enigmatic sibling duos of the fin-de-siècle. The unfamiliar reader might assume little common ground between the two-the former a highly respected philosopher, the latter a feminist occult leader largely unknown outside of specialist circles today. Exploring both siblings' thought in relation to the other and demonstrating their converging areas of interest, Ó Maoilearca offers a sophisticated, provocative, and beautifully crafted reconsideration of the relationship between Western esotericism and philosophy. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the ambiguous position of mysticism and magic in the Western intellectual tradition.
