Bergson and history : transforming the modern regime of historicity /

"In this book, Leon ter Schure demonstrates the value of Bergson's philosophy of life for a more expansive understanding of history. Bergson is known for his explorations of time as duration, yet in his writings rarely referred to history. At the same time, historians and philosophers of h...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schure, Leon ter, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]
Series:SUNY series in contemporary French thought.
Subjects:
Bergson, Henri, > 1859-1941.
Bergson, Henri, > 1859-1941
Historicism.
History > Philosophy.
Historicisme.
Histoire > Philosophie.
historicism (theory)
Historicism
History > Philosophy
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: history, presentism, Bergsonism
  • The case of the London Cenotaph
  • Historiography, modernity and the acceleration of time
  • Bergson and the crisis of the modern regime of historicity
  • A world made out of time
  • The survival of the past
  • Historical creation
  • The dream of progress
  • Conclusion: assessing presentism.

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