Bergson-Deleuze Encounters: Transcendental Experience and the Thought of the Virtual Contributor(s): Moulard-Leonard, Valentine (Author) |
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ISBN: 079147531X ISBN-13: 9780791475317 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: Explores the continuities and discontinuities in the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
Dewey: 194 |
LCCN: 2007042891 |
Series: SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 197 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Bergson-Deleuze Encounters sheds light on the intricate bond between French philosophers Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. It explores the major diffraction between the two thinkers, conveys a sense of the irreducible originality of Deleuze's thought, and offers a detailed account of Bergson's "Copernican Revolution." In so doing, it presents an explanation of thought and experience that contrasts with the dominant account of the phenomenological tradition. Valentine Moulard-Leonard argues that Bergson and Deleuze share a novel conception of the transcendental--which they call the Virtual--that marks a new era in thinking, in which what is ultimately at stake is a new vision of time, experience, and materiality. The Virtual provides an indispensable alternative to the totalizing systems spawned by the traditional transcendent image of thought--be they systems of idealism, scientific positivism, nationalism, racism, sexism, or dogmatism. |