Bergson-Deleuze Encounters

Transcendental Experience and the Thought of the Virtual

AvValentine Moulard-Leonard

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Explores the continuities and discontinuities in the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze.Bergson-Deleuze Encounters sheds light on the intricate bond between French philosophers Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. It explores the major diffraction between the two thinkers, conveys a sense of the irreducible originality of Deleuze's thought, and offers a detailed account of Bergson's "Copernican Revolution." In so doing, it presents an explanation of thought and experience that contrasts with the dominant account of the phenomenological tradition. Valentine Moulard-Leonard argues that Bergson and Deleuze share a novel conception of the transcendental-which they call the Virtual-that marks a new era in thinking, in which what is ultimately at stake is a new vision of time, experience, and materiality. The Virtual provides an indispensable alternative to the totalizing systems spawned by the traditional transcendent image of thought-be they systems of idealism, scientific positivism, nationalism, racism, sexism, or dogmatism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-08-07
Mått:152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791475317

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Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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Valentine Moulard-Leonard is an independent scholar living in Memphis, Tennessee.

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"The relationship between Bergson's and Deleuze's works has yet to be explored fully, and the author makes a strong case for a fundamental continuity in their thought. Her focus on them as advocates of a post-Kantian philosophy of transcendental experience brings to the fore the fundamental ontological and epistemological dimensions of their thought." — Ronald Bogue, author of Deleuze's Wake: Tributes and Tributaries

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Virtual Empiricism: The Revaluation of the TranscendentalBriefly Mapping Our Experimental Journey1. Bergson’s Genealogy of Consciousness: Freedom and Pure PerceptionThe Immediate Data of Consciousness: Time and Free WillEmerging Consciousness:The Role of the BodyFrom Psychology to Metaphysics: Pure Perception and Beyond2. Introducing Memory: From the Psychological to the VirtualBergsonian Dualisms—Memory and the Brain: Which Survival?Folding Over: The Psychological Is Also Necessarily Virtual3. The Unconscious as Ontology of the VirtualFrom Dualism to Difference The Élan Vital or the Ontologization of DurationMemory as Virtual CoexistenceSense and Sensibility: Bergsonian Positivism4. Between Bergson and Deleuze: The Method of Intuition as Transcendental/Virtual EmpiricismAbsolute Movement and IntuitionIntuition and Superior Empiricism5. Cinematic Thought: The Deleuzean Image and the Crystals of TimeWhy the Cinema?Toward the Crystal-Image: A Vision of the Genesis of Time 6. Proust and Thought: Death, Art, and the Adventures of the Involuntary Death Is the Truth of ThoughtHow Might Death Be Put to Work?Art as the Production of EssencesConclusion. Bergson-Deleuze Encounters: Machinic Becomings and Virtual MaterialsmFirst Question: What Does Deleuze Find in Bergson?Second Question: Why the Image?Third Question: Why Read Deleuze after Bergson? Fourth Question: Which Machinic Becomings?ClosingNotesReferencesIndex