An Introduction to Metaphysics

by Bergson, Henri; Mullarkey, John; Kolkman, Michael; Pearson, Keith Ansell

• ISBN13: 9780230517233
• ISBN10: 0230517234
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

There is currently a major renaissance of interest in Henri Bergson's unduly neglected texts and ideas amongst philosophers, literary theorists, and social theorists. Introduction to Metaphysics (1903) contains Bergson's classic statement that to philosophize is to reverse the habitual directions of our thinking, as well as his claim that a true empiricism amounts to a true metaphysics.

Author Biography

HENRI BERGSON (1859-1941) is one of the truly great philosophers of the modernist period, and there is currently a major renaissance of interest in his unduly neglected texts and ideas amongst philosophers, literary theorists, and social theorists.

JOHN MULLARKEY is a Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Dundee, UK. He is the author of Bergson and Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 1999) and editor, with Keith Ansell Pearson, of Bergson: Key Writings (Continuum, 2002).

MICHAEL KOLKMAN is a Graduate Student at the University of Warwick, UK, currently completing a PhD on the philosophy of Henri Bergson.

KEITH ANSELL PEARSON is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze (Routledge, 1999), Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual (Routledge, 2001), An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker (CUP, 1994). He is the co-editor of a forthcoming 'Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche' (Stanford) and editor of the 1890-1930 volume of Acumen's forthcoming 7-volume series in the history of Continental Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	p. vii
"The Very Life of Things": Thinking Objects and Reversing Thought in Bergsonian Metaphysics	p. ix
Guide to Further Reading	p. xxxiii
An Introduction to Metaphysics	p. xxxv
Translator's Preface	p. xxxvii
Notes	p. 55
Index	p. 60
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