Bergson and Phenomenology

ALIA AL-SAJI is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Canada RENAUD BARBARAS is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at l'université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France RUDOLF BERNET is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and President of the Husserl Archives. STEPHEN CROCKER is Associate Professor of Sociology and Humanities at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. NICOLAS DE WARREN is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College, USA, and has been a visiting faculty member of the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research and Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille3 PETE A.Y. GUNTER is currently Regents' University Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas, USA GARY GUTTING teaches at the University of Notre Dame, USA, where he holds the Notre Dame Endowed Chair in Philosophy LEONARD LAWLOR is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Penn State University, USA PIERRE KERZSBERG is Professor of Philosophy at University Toulouse, France HANNE JACOBS is a doctoral student in philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and is supported by the Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO). JOHN MULLARKEY has taught philosophy for the last 15 years at the University of Sunderland, England (1994-2004) and the University of Dundee, Scotland (2004 to date). TREVOR PERRI is a doctoral student in philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and is supported by the Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO). FRÉDÉRIC WORMS is Professor at the Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille3 and Director of the Centre international d'étude de la philosophie française contemporaine at the Ecole normale supérieure of Paris, France DAN ZAHAVI is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

'Michael Kelly has put together an exceptionally strong collection of essays that seeks a dialogue between Bergson and phenomenology and that features work by both leading continental philosophers and phenomenologists and aspiring young scholars. Such a collection of essays is long overdue. The essays, which cover topics ranging from time, consciousness, and affect to life, evolution, and ethics, are rich and varied. The collection represents a most welcome contribution to the emerging new literature on Bergson and succeeds in showing that Bergson is refreshingly contemporary. Highly recommended. ' - Keith Ansell-Pearson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick 'The virtue of Michael R. Kelly's volume is not only to have reconstructed debates between Bergson and classical phenomenologists but, more importantly, to propose a Bergsonian contribution to such central phenomenological topics as subjectivity, time, embodiment, nothingness, life, and freedom.' - Alexandre Lefebvre, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews '...the publication of this book is so welcome...' -Akos Krassoy, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.R.Kelly PART I. READING BERGSON ANEW: A FOUNDATION FOR THE BERGSON/PHENOMENOLOGY DEBATE Intuition and Duration: An Introduction to Bergson's 'Introduction to Metaphysics'; L.Lawlor Bergson on the Driven Force of Consciousness and Life; R.Bernet Bergson and Merleau-Ponty on Experience and Science; G.Gutting Man Falls Down: Art, Life, and Finitude in Bergson's Essay on Laughter; S.Crocker PART II. INTERSECTIONS: THE BERGSON/PHENOMENOLOGY DEBATE Intuition and Freedom: Bergson, Husserl, and the Movement of Philosophy; T.Perri & H.Jacobs Life, Thinking and Phenomenology in the early Bergson; D.Zahavi A Criticism of Sartre's Concept of Time; P.A.Y.Gunter Life as Vision: Bergson and the future of seeing differently; A.Al-Saji Bergson and Levinas; N.de Warren The Psycho-Physics of Phenomenology: Bergson and Henry; J.Mullarkey PART III. LIFEWORLD AND LIFE: THE FUNDAMENT OF THE BERGSON/PHENOMENOLOGY DEBATE? From the World of Life to the Life-world; P.Kerzsberg Consciousness or Life? Bergson between Phenomenology and Metaphysics; F.Worms The Failure of Bergsonism; R.Barbaras Index