Henri Bergson

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Creative Evolution is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation appeared in 1911. The book provides an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by an lan vital, a "vital impetus" that can also be understood as humanity's natural creative impulse. The book was very popular in the early decades of the twentieth century, before the Neodarwinian synthesis was developed. The book also develops concepts of time (offered in Bergson's earlier work) which significantly influenced modernist writers and thinkers such as Marcel Proust. For example, Bergson's term "duration" refers to a more individual, subjective experience of time, as opposed to mathematical, objectively measurable "clock time." In Creative Evolution, Bergson suggests that the experience of time as "duration" can best be understood through creative intuition, not through intellect.

Creative Evolution is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation appeared in 1911. The book provides an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by an lan vital, a "vital impetus" that can also be understood as humanity's natural creative impulse. The book was very popular in the early decades of the twentieth century, before the Neodarwinian synthesis was developed. The book also develops concepts of time (offered in Bergson's earlier work) which significantly influenced modernist writers and thinkers such as Marcel Proust. For example, Bergson's term "duration" refers to a more individual, subjective experience of time, as opposed to mathematical, objectively measurable "clock time." In Creative Evolution, Bergson suggests that the experience of time as "duration" can best be understood through creative intuition, not through intellect.

First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergson’s L’évolution créatrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This outstanding new translation, the first for over a hundred years, brings one of Bergson’s most important and ambitious works to a new generation of readers. A sympathetic though critical reader of Darwin, Bergson argues in Creative Evolution against a mechanistic, reductionist view of evolution. For Bergson, all life emerges from a creative, shared impulse, which he famously terms élan vital and which passes like a current through different organisms and generations over time. Whilst this impulse remains as forms of life diverge and multiply, human life is characterized by a distinctive form of consciousness or intellect. Yet as Bergson brilliantly shows, the intellect’s fragmentary and action- oriented nature, which he likens to the cinematograph, means it alone cannot grasp nature’s creativity and invention over time. A major task of Creative Evolution is to reconcile these two elements. For Bergson, the answer famously lies in intuition, which brings instinct and intellect together and takes us “into the very interior of life.” A work of great rigour and imaginative richness that contributed to Bergson winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927, Creative Evolution played an important and controversial role in the trajectory of twentieth-century philosophy and continues to create significant discussion and debate. The philosopher and psychologist William James, who admired Bergson’s work, was writing an introduction to the first English translation of the book before his death in 1910. This new translation includes a foreword by Elizabeth Grosz and a helpful translator’s introduction by Donald Landes. Also translated for the first time are additional notes, articles, reviews and letters on the reception of Creative Evolution in biology, mathematics, and theology. This edition includes fascinating commentaries by philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges Canguilhem, and Gilles Deleuze.

»Bergson kombinerar skickligt strikt vetenskaplighet med kreativ fiktion. Språket är dessutom vackert, enkelt och smidigt och har kraft att övertyga även i vetenskapligt och logiskt tveksamma sammanhang.« Ola Svärd, BTJDen franske filosofen Henri Bergson hade stort inflytande på författare, vetenskapsmän och tänkare under slutet av 1800-talet och första halvan av 1900-talet. Han vände sig mot en äldre filosofitradition och hävdade att verkligheten visserligen måste förstås vetenskapligt, men att utgångspunkten i kvantitativ analys får oss att misskänna dess subjektiva dimension. I sitt mest kända verk, Tiden och den fria viljan [1889], undersöker Bergson hur »omedelbara medvetenhetsfakta« framträder i det nuflöde som är mer grundläggande än rummet och kännetecknas av kvalitativ förändring. Människan är ett slags förtätning av allt hon har levt, och genom att omfatta sin historia i en skapande akt kan hon uttrycka sin frihet. Trots sin djupa skepsis mot språket var Bergson en populär författare, ett slags intellektuell superstjärna med världsrykte. Han belönades med Nobelpriset i litteratur 1927. I svensk översättning av Algot Ruhe, bearbetad av Jenny Sylvan, med ett nyskrivet förord av Anna Petronella Foultier, fil.dr i filosofi på Stockholms universitet. HENRI BERGSON föddes i Paris 1859. Som filosof intresserade han sig särskilt för gränsområdet mellan vetenskap och metafysik. 1914 valdes han som den första juden in i Franska akademien. Han avled 1941, enligt legenden av en förkylning som han ådrog sig när han köade för att bli registrerad som jude av ockupationsmakten, trots att Vichyregeringen velat undanta honom från de nya lagarna.» Bergsons teori om tiden som nuflöde är enligt min uppfattning ett av de mest betydelsefulla, om än oftast förbisedda, bidragen till den samtida filosofin.« Emmanuel Levinas

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The Dictionary of Dreams provides the necessary tools to interpret almost every dream object and its hidden meaning to better understand what your subconscious is telling you. Now in a pocket-size edition for easy, on-the-go instruction. Dreams can be fun and adventurous, but also frightening and distorted, and still again, they can be an endless combination of both. From spitting teeth out (a sign of aging), to creepy, crawly spiders (a sign that one feels like an outsider), dreams can mean much more to us once we learn how to decipher their hidden meanings. Whether positive or negative, The Dictionary of Dreams gives you all the tools, symbols, and their true meanings to translate our cryptic nightly images. Starting with selections from classic texts like Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and 10,000 Dreams Interpreted by Gustavus Hindman Miller, one of the first authors to complete a thorough study of all the symbols that appear in our dreamscape, this updated edition features revisions (such as the addition of cell phones, computers, televisions, and more) of Miller’s original interpretations to bring the book up to speed with our modern life.

This book has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Matter and Memory presents an analysis of the classical philosophical problems concerning this relation. Within that frame the analysis of memory serves the purpose of clarifying the problem. Matter and Memory was written in reaction to the book The Maladies of Memory by Theodule Ribot, which appeared in 1881. Ribot claimed that the findings of brain science proved that memory is lodged within a particular part of the nervous system; localized within the brain and thus being of a material nature. Bergson was opposed to this reduction of spirit to matter. Defending a clear anti-reductionist position, he considered memory to be of a deeply spiritual nature, the brain serving the need of orienting present action by inserting relevant memories. The brain thus being of a practical nature, certain lesions tend to perturb this practical function, but without erasing memory as such. The memories are, instead, simply not 'incarnated', and cannot serve their purpose.

Zeit und Willensfreiheit: Ein Essay ber die unmittelbaren Gegebenheiten des Bewusstseins (franz sisch: Essai sur les donn es imm diates de la conscience) ist Henri Bergsons Doktorarbeit, die erstmals 1889 ver ffentlicht wurde. Der Essay befasst sich mit dem Problem des freien Willens, das nach Bergson lediglich eine unter Philosophen weit verbreitete Verwechslung ist, die durch eine unzul ssige bertragung des Unausgedehnten auf das Ausgedehnte verursacht wird, und dient als Mittel zur Einf hrung seiner Theorie der Zeitdauer, die im folgenden Jahrhundert unter den Philosophen sehr einflussreich werden sollte.