Bergson’s Philosophy of Self-Overcoming

Thinking without Negativity or Time as Striving

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-07
Mått:148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:291
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030154868

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- 2. Intuitive Knowledge via the Inversion of Intelligence.- 3. Duration and Self-Striving.- 4. Life as the Inversion of Materiality.- 5. Perception and the Genesis of the Subject.- 6. Memory and the Being of the Subject.- 7. Mysticism or the Overstepping of Nature.