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Title: Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson ISBN: 0-486-40036-0 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 19 March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: From Miller to Ibsen
Comment: I first came across Ibsen's monumental work when reading 'Tropic of Capricorn' by Henry Miller. Despite my complete lack of evolutionary and biological knowledge, I found Ibsen's eschatology mind blowing. Several times I was forced to leave the book for days in order to fully contemplate the philosophical ramifications of his insights. From this great stride forward into the fringes of human understanding Ibsen states: 'A conduct that is truly our own, on the contrary, is that of a will which does not try to counterfeit intellect, and which, remaining itself - that is to say, evolving - ripens gradually into acts which the intellect will be able to resolve indefinitely into intelligible elements without ever reaching its goal. The free act is incommensurable with the idea, and its "rationality" must be defined by this very incommensurability, which admits the discovery of much intelligibility within it as we will. Such is the character of our own evolution; and such also, without doubt, that of the evolution of life." No one, despite their educational backgrounds or lack thereof, should feel intimidated by the possibility of transcending one's very own intellect.
Rating: 5
Summary: the opus of the advocate of vitality....
Comment: Despite Lord Russell's criticism that "intuition works best in bats, bees, and Bergson," in this work Bergson not only finishes the uprooting of the Western and Platonic disembodied intellect (a deconstruction taken only so far by Kant), he presents us with the spectacle of unbridled life creatively shaping, not only its world, but itself in accord with its own telos: the need for eyesight creating the eye, so to speak. Difficult in places but a treasure, although one could wish he gave more credit to Nietzsche's obviously great impact on him. Jungians would do well to peruse Bergson too.
Rating: 4
Summary: the light shining between Heraclitus and Bohm
Comment: Henri Bergson's seminal ``Creative Evolution'' starts off with the flowing movement so prevalent in his philosophy of the organism, one idea flows into the next in a smooth undivided motion. Not only does Bergson explain his work with analogies and examples supported by the biology of the time, thereby distancing himself from the purely intellectual pursuit of most philosohpy, trapped in the world of the mind, but he demonstrates his thought in the very way of exposition he uses throughout the book. One feels his thought is produced like a Mozart symphony, all at once with no corrections needed. This aptly demonstrates the idea of duration and time he proposes in this book. His influence is profound in thinkers such as David Bohm and Alfred North Whitehead which so to speak ``run with it'' in the parlance of baseball. This is a book worth reading twice for its rich display of creativity and also to reread sections not followed the first time. One does feel however that at times the flow is interrupted by disturbances in his mode of thinking leading to disjointed reading. Nonetheless, not only does he open a whole new way of thought free of dualism and the old patterns of mechanism, but he also expalins the reason for mechanistic thought itself.
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Title: Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson, N. M. Paul, W. S. Palmer ISBN: 0942299051 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 08 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Time and Free Will : An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness by Henri Bergson ISBN: 0486417670 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 07 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Henri Bergson ISBN: 0806504218 Publisher: Citadel Trade Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Bergsonism by Gilles Deleuze, Hugh Tomlinson, Barbara Habberjam ISBN: 0942299078 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 08 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Introduction to Metaphysics by Henri Bergson ISBN: 0766102130 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Company Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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