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Understanding Bergson, understanding modernism /

Henri Bergson is frequently cited amongst the holy trinity of major influences on Modernism-literary and otherwise-alongside Sigmund Freud and William James. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism has re-popularized Bergson for the twenty-first century, so much so that, perhaps, our Bergson is Deleuze...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gontarski, S. E.
Otros Autores: Ardoin, Paul, Mattison, Laci
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Abbreviations
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • About the year 1910": Bergson and Literary Modernism
  • Notes
  • Part 1: Conceptualizing Bergson
  • Chapter 1: (Re)Reading Time and Free Will: (Re)Discovering Bergson for the Twenty-First Century
  • Intuition
  • Intensity, duration, and freedom
  • Intensity
  • Duration
  • Freedom
  • Circling back: (Re)reading and (re)thinking
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2: Bergson's Matter and Memory: From Time to Space
  • Time for space
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3: Comedies of Errors: Bergson's Laughter in Modernist Contexts
  • Backgrounds in theory
  • Bergson's theory of laughter
  • Theory and resistance
  • Notes
  • Chapter 4: Sub Specie Durationis, or the Free Necessity of Life's Creativeness in Bergson's Creative Evolution
  • The problem of "life": Between philosophy and science
  • Collège de France 1902-3 lectures: "Histoire de l'idée de temps"
  • Creative evolution
  • A different kind of Vitalism, perhaps?
  • A new "humanity," yes. . .
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5: A Reading of Two Sources of Morality and Religion, or Bergsonian Wisdom, Emotion, and Integrity
  • A source of Two Sources in Matter and Memory
  • E-movere: The movements of souls and the two sources of morality and religion
  • The "lived-experience" of emotion: Two not of a kind
  • Bergsonian wisdom: Emotion and the conditions for the possibility of integrity
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6: The Inclination of Philosophy: The Creative Mind and the Articulation of a Bergsonian Method
  • Notes
  • Part 2: Bergson and Aesthetics
  • Chapter 7: Bergson, Vitalism, and Modernist Literature
  • Introduction
  • Bergsonian philosophy: Key terms for poetics
  • Bergsonian poetics: Life-writing
  • Bergson and the modernists: An inner circle of turmoil
  • Modernism's further Bergsonian circles.
  • Understanding Modernism: The cash-value of Bergsonian poetics
  • Notes
  • Chapter 8: Perception Sickness: Bergsonian Sensitivity and Modernist Paralysis
  • The necessity of the great deadener and the dangers of lifting the veil
  • Understanding modernism to understand Bergson
  • Notes
  • Chapter 9: "Blast ... Bergson?" Wyndham Lewis's "Guilty Fire of Friction"
  • Notes
  • Chapter 10: Bergson and Proust: A Question of Influence
  • A Bergson-Proust chronology
  • Notes
  • Chapter 11: Joyce's Matter and Memory: Perception and Memory-Events in Finnegans Wake
  • Notes
  • Chapter 12: Minds Meeting: Bergson, Joyce, Nabokov, and the Aesthetics of the Subliminal
  • Education of the senses
  • Creative impulse and the reabsorption of debris
  • States of consciousness, interpenetrating
  • Flow
  • Schema and image
  • Notes
  • Chapter 13: Modernist Energeia: Henri Bergson and the Romantic Idea of Language
  • Notes
  • Chapter 14: H.D. 's Intuitional Imagism: Memory, Desire, and the Image in Process
  • Introduction
  • H.D. and Imagism
  • Intuition and the image in "The Shrine"
  • Desire, community, and the image
  • Notes
  • Chapter 15: Bergson and the Comedy of Horrors
  • Introduction
  • What is horror?
  • Why is Schindler's List horrific? On chance and death
  • Bergson on the meaning of the comical
  • The comedy of horrors at the limits of representation
  • Concluding note on contingency and fabulation
  • Notes
  • Chapter 16: Time and Free Will: Bergson, Modernism, Superheroes, and Watchmen
  • Modernism and spatial form
  • Einstein and spacetime
  • Comics as modernism
  • Bergson's objection
  • Modernism and agency
  • Watchmen, agency, and ethics
  • Notes
  • Chapter 17: The Joys of Atavism
  • Notes
  • Part 3: Glossary
  • Chapter 18: Bergson on Art and Creativity
  • Notes
  • Chapter 19: Bergson on Durée
  • Notes
  • Chapter 20: Bergson on Élan Vital
  • Notes.
  • Chapter 21: Bergson on Evolution
  • Note
  • Chapter 22: Bergson on Free Will and Creativity
  • Notes
  • Chapter 23: Bergson on Habit and Perception
  • Notes
  • Chapter 24: Bergson on Idealism and Realism
  • Notes
  • Chapter 25: Bergson on Image and Representation
  • Notes
  • Chapter 26: Bergson on Instinct
  • Chapter 27: Bergson on Intuition
  • Notes
  • Chapter 28: Bergson on Language
  • Notes
  • Chapter 29: Bergson on Memory
  • Notes
  • Chapter 30: Bergson on Movement and Spatialization
  • Notes
  • Chapter 31: Bergson on Multiplicity
  • Chapter 32: Bergson on Organization and Manufacture
  • Notes.