Key Writings

The twentieth century - with its unprecedented advances in technology and scientific understanding - saw the birth of a distinctively new and 'modern' age. Henri Bergson stood as one of the most important philosophical voices of that tumultuous time. An intellectual celebrity in his own life time, his work was widely discussed by such thinkers as William James, Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, as well as having a profound influence on modernist writers such as Wallace Stevens, Willa Cather and Wyndham Lewis and later thinkers, most notably Gilles Deleuze. brings together Bergson's most essential writings in a single volume, including crucial passages from such major work as Time and Free Will , Matter and Memory , Creative Evolution , Mind-Energy , The Creative Mind , The Two Sources of Morality and Religion and Laughter . The book also includes Bergson's correspondences with William James and a chronology of his life and work.

Info autore

Keith Ansell Pearson holds a Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK.

John Ó Maoilearca is Professor of Film and Television Studies at Kingston University, UK. He is the author of Bergson and Philosophy (Edinburgh UP, 1999), Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline (Continuum, 2006) and Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most important philosophical figures of the earlier twentieth-century, a cult figure in his day and a profound influence on such thinkers and writers as William James, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Henri Bergson, Bergson Henri
• Con la collaborazione di: Keith Ansell Pearson (Editore), Professor Keith (University of Warwick Ansell Pearson (Editore), Keith Ansell-Pearson (Editore), John O Maoilearca (Editore), John Ó Maoilearca (Editore), John O. Maoilearca (Editore), John Mullarkey (Editore), John Ó Maoilearca (Editore), Keith Ansell Pearson (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 24.04.2014
• EAN: 9781472528018
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-2801-8
• Pagine: 536
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 215 mm x 28 mm
• Serie: Bloomsbury Revelations; Bloomsbury Revelations
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: dall'antichità ai giorni nostri; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, Literary theory, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -