Bergson's Philosophy of Self-Overcoming
Thinking without Negativity or Time as Striving
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book proposes a new reading of Bergsonism based on the admission that time, conceived as duration, stretches instead of passes. This swelling time is full and so excludes the negative. Yet, swelling requires some resistance, but such that it is more of...
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This book proposes a new reading of Bergsonism based on the admission that time, conceived as duration, stretches instead of passes. This swelling time is full and so excludes the negative. Yet, swelling requires some resistance, but such that it is more of a stimulant than a contrariety. The notion of élan vital fulfills this requirement: it states the immanence of life to matter, thereby deriving the swelling from an internal effort and allowing its conceptualization as self-overcoming. With self-overcoming as the inner dynamics of reality, Bergson dismisses all forms of dualism and reductionist monism because both the absence of negativity and the swelling nature of time posit a creative process yielding a qualitatively diverse world. This graded oneness is how the lower level activates intensification by turning into limitation, making possible higher levels of achievement, in particular through the union of mind and body and the integration of openness and closed sociability.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Bergson's Philosophy of Self-Overcoming “
1 Introduction2 Intuitive Knowledge via the Inversion of Intelligence
Action and Intuition
Bergsonism and Theories of Knowledge
Epistemological Divergence
Intuitive Knowledge as Ideal GenesisInversion and False Problems
Crossing Limitations
3 Duration and Self-Striving
In Search of True Time
Towards a Dynamic Conception of Time
Continuity versus Discontinuity
Duration and Consciousness
Duration as the Stuff of Reality
Duration as Effort
Beyond Free Will and Determinism
4 Life as the Inversion of Materiality
Being and Nothingness
The Negativity of Action
Controversy over Negativity
Negation without Nothingness
The Striving of Self-Limitation
Unity versus Analysis
Transcending Finalism and Mechanism
The Oneness of Life
Enduring Striving in lieu of the Eternal
5 Perception and the Genesis of the Subject
The Contradictions of Representational Theories of Perception
From the Material to the Psychic
Perception: Pure and Concrete
Materiality and the Notion of Image
Bergson and Phenomenology: The Issue of the Subject
The Mechanism of Perception
Limitation and Perception
6 Memory and the Being of the Subject
Memory and Action
On the Conservation and Nature of Memory
Deleuze and Bergson
Intentionality and the Continuity of Consciousness
The Actualization of MemoryOn the Unity of Mind and Body
7 Mysticism or the Overstepping of Nature
Halt versus Stage
Duality of Source and Self-Overcoming
Moral Obligation and Social Conservativism
The Natural Society
Opening the Natural
Overdetermination and Progress
Problems of Modernity and the Revaluation of Values
Autoren-Porträt von Messay Kebede
Messay Kebede is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton, Ohio. He has published five books and various articles dealing with African philosophy, philosophical issues of modernization, Ethiopia's experience with social radicalism, and the philosophy of Bergson. Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Messay Kebede
- 2019, 1st ed. 2019, VII, 291 Seiten, Maße: 15,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3030154866
- ISBN-13: 9783030154868
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.05.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
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