Henri Bergson: Key Writings

Description:
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) wrote seminal texts on topics that remain at the heart of current philosophical inquiry, such as time, consciousness, and evolution. His impact on the philosophical, scientific, and literary modernism of the first half of the 20th century was extraordinary. Interest in Bergson's ideas is undergoing a timely and welcome renaissance. This volume acts as a textbook for pedagogic purposes and a helpful source book for philosophers working across the analytic/continental divide.

Table of Contents:
'Time and Free Will' - the idea of duration; 'Matter and Memory'; 'Mind-Energy'; 'Creative Evolution'; 'Duration and Simultaneity' - the nature of time; 'The Creative Mind'; Bergson and Kant - beyond the noumenal; 'The Two Sources of Morality and Religion'; 'Melanges'.