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Lädt ... Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergsonvon Suzanne Guerlac
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I'm tired of resignedly pretending I don't think the capital-driven technocratic age we are galloping into will ultimately turn out to be a cul de sac for individual humans, human society, and the natural world of which we are still a part. Or that the possible "gains" represented by treating ourselves and the world as biochemical machines are not already being offset by incalculably larger losses. So Bergson, once considered reactionary because he rejected empiricism and dialectics, or "soft" because he championed the reality of subjective experience, including affect, is looking better than ever. And this is a great introduction, accessible to anyone with even a rudimentary interest in philosophy. Time is real, says Bergson, it is irreversible, it is a creative force, and living beings are always, inevitably, beings in time. Sounds much better to me than a dystopia where individuals (who can pay) meld themselves with machines to try to remain "living" as long as possible, or a disembodied, virtual experience completely replaces an embodied one. It seems truer than ever that if we as a species don't understand what it means to be alive, we won't be able to create a life worth living. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"In recent years, we have grown accustomed to philosophical language that is intensely self-conscious and rhetorically thick, often tragic in tone. It is enlivening to read Bergson, who exerts so little rhetorical pressure while exacting such a substantial effort of thought.... Bergson's texts teach the reader to let go of entrenched intellectual habits and to begin to think differently-to think in time.... Too much and too little have been said about Bergson. Too much, because of the various appropriations of his thought. Too little, because the work itself has not been carefully studied in recent decades."-from Thinking in TimeHenri Bergson (1859-1941), whose philosophical works emphasized motion, time, and change, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. His work remains influential, particularly in the realms of philosophy, cultural studies, and new media studies. In Thinking in Time, Suzanne Guerlac provides readers with the conceptual and contextual tools necessary for informed appreciation of Bergson's work. Guerlac's straightforward philosophical expositions of two Bergson texts, Time and Free Will (1888) and Matter and Memory (1896), focus on the notions of duration and memory-concepts that are central to the philosopher's work. Thinking in Time makes plain that it is well worth learning how to read Bergson effectively: his era and our own share important concerns. Bergson's insistence on the opposition between the automatic and the voluntary and his engagement with the notions of "the living," affect, and embodiment are especially germane to discussions of electronic culture. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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