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A thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in
Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation of readers.
Ansell-Pearson contends that there is a Bergsonian revolution, an
upheaval in philosophy comparable in significance to those that we are
more familiar with, from Kant to Nietzsche and Heidegger, that make up
our intellectual modernity.
The focus of the text is on Bergson's conception of philosophy as the
discipline that seeks to 'think beyond the human condition'. Not that
we are caught up in an existential predicament when the appeal is made
to think beyond the human condition; rather that restricting
philosophy to the human condition fails to appreciate the extent to
which we are not simply creatures of habit and automatism, but also
organisms involved in a creative evolution of becoming.
Ansell-Pearson introduces the work of Bergson and core aspects of his
innovative modes of thinking; examines his interest in Epicureanism;
explores his interest in the self and in time and memory; presents
Bergson on ethics and on religion, and illuminates Bergson on the art
of life.
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Thinking Beyond the Human Condition
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ISBN
9781350043978
Publisert
2020
Utgave
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Utgiver
Bloomsbury UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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