Henri Bergson

Key Writings

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Edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson and John Mullarkey

Continuum Publishing

Due/Published May 2002, 416 pages, paper

ISBN 0826457290

This volume brings together generous selections from his major texts: Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory, Creative Evolution, Mind-Energy, The Creative Mind, The Two Sources of Morality, and Religion and Laughter. In addition it features material from the Melanges never before translated in English, such as the correspondence between Bergson and William James.

Series: Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers

"Henri Bergson: Key Writings will change the way we will think about Twentieth Century philosophy. It includes selections from all of Bergson's important published texts and English translations of other never before translated texts. Ansell Pearson and Mullarkey have done a great job; their Preface to the volume is one of the best introductions to (and expansions of) Bergson's philosophy available in any language."--Leonard Lawlor, University of Memphis

Contents

1. Time and Free Will: The Idea of Duration
2. Matter and Memory
3. Mind-Energy
4. Creative Evolution
5. Duration and Simultaneity: The Nature of Time
6. The Creative Mind
7. Bergson and Kant: Beyond the Noumenal
8. The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
9. Melanges