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" Bergson : "
by Keith Ansell-Pearson.
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562243
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b391422
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Keith Ansell-Pearson
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Bergson : : thinking beyond the human condition\ by Keith Ansell-Pearson.
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London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2018.
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ix, 194 pages ; 25 cm
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135004394X
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: 1350043958
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: 9781350043947
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: 9781350043954
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Thinking beyond the human condition -- An introduction to Bergson -- A melancholy science: Bergson on Lucretius -- Bergson on time, freedom, and the self -- Bergson on memory -- On Bergson's reformation of philosophy in Creative Evolution -- Bergson and ethics -- Bergson and Nietzsche on religion: critique, immanence, and affirmation (with Jim Urpeth) -- Bergson on education and the art of life.
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This book focuses on Bergson's conception of philosophy as the discipline that seeks to 'think beyond the human condition'. Not that we are caught up in an existential predicament when the appeal is made to think beyond the human condition; rather that restricting philosophy to the human condition fails to appreciate the extent to which we are not simply creatures of habit and automatism, but also organisms involvedThis book focuses on Bergson's conception of philosophy as the discipline that seeks to 'think beyond the human condition'. Not that we are caught up in an existential predicament when the appeal is made to think beyond the human condition; rather that restricting philosophy to the human condition fails to appreciate the extent to which we are not simply creatures of habit and automatism, but also organisms involvedThis book focuses on Bergson's conception of philosophy as the discipline that seeks to 'think beyond the human condition'. Not that we are caught up in an existential predicament when the appeal is made to think beyond the human condition; rather that restricting philosophy to the human condition fails to appreciate the extent to which we are not simply creatures of habit and automatism, but also organisms involved",,,,,"This book focuses on Bergson's conception of philosophy as the discipline that seeks to 'think beyond the human condition'. Not that we are caught up in an existential predicament when the appeal is made to think beyond the human condition; rather that restricting philosophy to the human condition fails to appreciate the extent to which we are not simply creatures of habit and automatism, but also organisms involved in a creative evolution of becoming.
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