Bergson's Philosophy of biology : virtuality, tendency and time / Tano S. Posteraro

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Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 1-4744-8880-3

ISBN : 978-1-4744-8880-8

Bergson -- Henri -- 1859-1941

Biologie -- Philosophie

Classification Dewey : 194

Résumé / Abstract : "We are in the midst of a return to Henri Bergson – the French philosopher whose influence touches the fields of continental philosophy, literary theory and art theory. This revival of interest in his work could even be called a full-blown Bergson renaissance. Tano S. Posteraro contributes to this increasingly serious study of Bergson’s philosophy with a tight focus on Bergson’s theory of evolution. He presents an alternative Bergson: not a phenomenologist whose central concern is the conscious experience of lived time or the lived body in time, but a systematic philosopher of biology with a robust, prescient and largely workable evolutionary programme"--