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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Key Writings 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 li
Trade Review"Henri Bergson: Key Writings will change the way we will think about Twentieth Century philosophy. It includes selections from all of Bergson's important published texts and English translations of other never before translated texts. Ansell-Pearson and Mullarkey have done a great job; their Preface to the volume is one of the best introductions to (and expansions of) Bergson's philosophy available in any language."--Leonard Lawlor, University of Memphis
Table of Contents1. Time and Free Will: The Idea of Duration 2. Matter and Memory 3. Mind-Energy 4. Creative Evolution 5. Duration and Simultaneity: The Nature of Time 6. The Creative Mind 7. Bergson and Kant: Beyond the Noumenal 8. The Two Sources of Morality and Religion 9. Melanges
