Bergson and Phenomenology

by Kelly, Michael R.

• ISBN13: 9780230202382
• ISBN10: 0230202381
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Often neglected as an influence on phenomenology, Bergson's thought has resurfaced and brought challenges to phenomenology. In a series of original essays and translations, leading scholars of contemporary continental philosophy seek to redress this oversight and inaugurate a long over due dialogue and yet pertinent to the future of continental philosophy. This thematically focused collection reintroduces Bergson to the dominant discourse in continental philosophy (phenomenology), reevaluates phenomenologists' readings of Bergson (e.g., Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Henry), and examines Bergsonian challenges to phenomenological methods and issues. What emerges is not only a revitalized Bergson read on his own terms, but also a view of the vibrance of Bergson's thought and its central contributions to perennial issues in phenomenology and contemporary continental philosophy: including dualism, intentionality, subjectivity and selfhood, science, time, ethics, freedom, life and affectivity.

Author Biography

MICHAEL R. KELLY received his doctorate in philosophy from Fordham University and teaches philosophy at Boston College, USA. His research interests and publications primarily deal with Husserl's reception in the phenomenological tradition and history of philosophy, as well as Bergson's relation to classical phenomenology.

 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Bergson's Phenomenological Reception: the Spirit of a Dialogue of Self-Resistance	p. 1
Reading Bergson Anew: a Foundation for the Bergson/Phenomenology Debate
Intuition and Duration: an Introduction to Bergson's 'Introduction to Metaphysics'	p. 25
Bergson on the Driven Force of Consciousness and Life	p. 42
Bergson and Merleau-Ponty on Experience and Science	p. 63
Man Falls Down: Art, Life and Finitude in Bergson's Essay on Laughter	p. 78
Intersections: the Bergson/Phenomenology Debate
Intuition and Freedom: Bergson, Husserl and the Movement of Philosophy	p. 101
Life, Thinking and Phenomenology in the Early Bergson	p. 118
A Criticism of Sartre's Concept of Time	p. 134
Life as Vision: Bergson and the Future of Seeing Differently	p. 148
Miracles of Creation: Bergson and Levinas	p. 174
The Psycho-Physics of Phenomenology: Bergson and Henry	p. 201
Life-World and Life: the Fundament of the Bergson/Phenomenology Debate
From the World of Life to the Life-World	p. 223
Consciousness or Life? Bergson between Phenomenology and Metaphysics	p. 245
The Failure of Bergsonism	p. 258
Index	p. 273
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