Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir Jankélévitch's Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism renewed interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider Bergson's experiential and religious perspectives. Here Jankélévitch covers all aspects of Bergson's thought, emphasizing the concepts of time and duration, memory, evolution, simplicity, love, and joy. A friend of Bergson's, Jankélévitch first published this book in 1931 and revised it in 1959 to treat Bergson's later works. This unabridged translation of the 1959 edition includes an editor's introduction, which contextualizes and outlines Jankélévitch's reading of Bergson, additional essays on Bergson by Jankélévitch, and Bergson's letters to Jankélévitch.
- Cover
- Contents
- Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Jankélévitch on Bergson: Living in Time
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Organic Totalities
- I. The Whole and Its Elements
- II. The Retrospective View and the Illusion of the Future Perfect
- Chapter Two. Freedom
- I. Actor and Spectator
- II. Becoming
- III. The Free Act
- Chapter Three. Soul and Body
- I. Thought and Brain
- II. Recollection and Perception
- III. Intellection
- IV. Memory and Matter
- Chapter Four. Life
- I. Finality
- II. Instinct and Intellect
- III. Matter and Life
- Chapter Five. Heroism and Saintliness
- I. Suddenness
- II. The Open and the Closed
- III. Bergson’s Maximalism
- Chapter Six. The Nothingness of Concepts and the Plenitude of Spirit
- I. Fabrication and Organization: The Demiurgic Prejudice
- II. On the Possible
- Chapter Seven. Simplicity... and Joy
- I. On Simplicity
- II. Bergson’s Optimism
- Appendices
- Supplementary Pieces
- Preface to the First Edition of Henri Bergson (1930)
- Letters to Vladimir Jankélévitch by Henri Bergson
- Letter to Louis Beauduc on First Meeting Bergson (1923)
- What Is the Value of Bergson’s Thought? Interview with Françoise Reiss (1959)
- Solemn Homage to Henri Bergson (1959)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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