Bergson and Phenomenology [Hardcover]

Examining the revival of Bergsonism for phenomenology, leading scholars of both areas inaugurate a dialogue long overdue. By assessing phenomenology's readings of Bergson and Bergsonian challenges to phenomenological methods, the essays in this volume explore anew the?issues of central concern in contemporary continental philosophy.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

'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 BerlC+