Bergson's Philosophy of Self-Overcoming: Thinking Without Negativity or Time as Striving 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Kebede, Messay (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030154866 ISBN-13: 9783030154868 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $85.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2019 |
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BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - General - Philosophy | Metaphysics |
Dewey: 110 |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.12 lbs) 291 pages |
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Publisher Description: This book proposes a new reading of Bergsonism based on the admission that time, conceived as duration, stretches instead of passes. This swelling time is full and so excludes the negative. Yet, swelling requires some resistance, but such that it is more of a stimulant than a contrariety. The notion of lan vital fulfills this requirement: it states the immanence of life to matter, thereby deriving the swelling from an internal effort and allowing its conceptualization as self-overcoming. With self-overcoming as the inner dynamics of reality, Bergson dismisses all forms of dualism and reductionist monism because both the absence of negativity and the swelling nature of time posit a creative process yielding a qualitatively diverse world. This graded oneness is how the lower level activates intensification by turning into limitation, making possible higher levels of achievement, in particular through the union of mind and body and the integration of openness and closed sociability. |