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| Named Person: | Henri Bergson; Henri Bergson; Henri Bergson |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Frederick Burwick; Paul Douglass |
| ISBN: | 0521412943 9780521412940 |
| OCLC Number: | 24288025 |
| Description: | xv, 405 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The perpetual crises of modernism and the traditions of Enlightenment vitalism : with a note on Mikhail Bakhtin / George Rousseau -- Contemporary vitalism / Mikhail Bakhtin -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Romantic background to Bergson / Jack H. Haeger -- Sir Charles Bell and the vitalist controversy in the early nineteenth century / Frederick Burwick -- "The triumph of life" : Nietzsche's verbicide / Frederick Amrine -- Bergson's vitalism in the light of modern biology / Maria de Issekutz Wolsky and Alexander A. Wolsky -- Microphysical indeterminacy and freedom : Bergson and Peirce / Milič Čapek -- Vitalism, empiricism, and the quest for reality in German and English philosophy / Jürgen Klein -- Bergson and Sartre : the rise of French existentialism / P.A.Y. Gunter -- Vitalism and contemporary thought / Joseph Chiari -- Bergson and the politics of vitalism / Sanford Schwartz. Bergson and the discourse of the moderns / Richard Lehan -- Modern times : Stein, Bergson, and the ellipses of "American" writing / Joseph N. Riddel -- Deleuze's Bergson : Bergson redux / Paul Douglass. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass. |
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Abstract:
The modernist movement has been regarded as representing a crisis point in Western thought. This volume looks at that crisis in terms of its reinterpretation of ideas concerning vitalism: the animation of the universe (whether spiritual or based in physical energies). Beginning with vitalism's historical background in the Enlightenment and the nineteenth century and moving through scientific, philosophical, and literary disciplines, the contributors chart the progress of vitalism and its influence on modernist thought. The focal point is the work of Henri Bergson, whose part in this powerful reinterpretation had a considerable bearing on European and American intellectual life, and yet led to a vehement rejection of his work. A previously untranslated and little-known essay by Mikhail Bakhtin will be of special interest in this stimulating collection, which includes original contributions from leading scholars in literature, the history of science, biology, and philosophy, and comprises a wide-ranging reassessment of "the perpetual crises of modernity."
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