freedom : lectures at the Collège de France, 1904-1905 / Henri Bergson ; Edited, with an Introduction, by Nils F. Schott and Alexandre Lefebvre, based on the french edition by Arnaud François ; translated by Leonard Lawlor

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Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 978-1-3500-2917-0

EAN : 9781350029170

Tarde -- Gabriel -- 1843-1904

Marey -- Étienne-Jules -- 1830-1904 -- physiologiste -- Chronophotographie

Philosophie -- France -- 1870-1940 (3e République)

Philosophie -- Histoire

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Schott, Nils F. (Editeur scientifique / editor)

Lefebvre, Alexandre (1979-.... ; professeur de philosophie et sciences politiques) (Editeur scientifique / editor)

François, Arnaud (1978-.... ; philosophe) (Antécédent bibliographique / bibl. antecedent)

Lawlor, Leonard (1954-....) (Traducteur / translator)

Résumé / Abstract : For 15 years, Henri Bergson taught at the College de France. Speaking without notes, most of his classes are now lost to history, but records of a handful of courses fortuitously survived thanks to stenographic transcripts. Conveying Bergson's very voice, these extraordinary documents are finally presented here in English. The 1904-5 lectures are dedicated to the topic of freedom, or as Bergson put it, "the evolution of the problem of freedom." Building on the philosophy of freedom from his first book, Time and Free Will, he proposes that freedom is not only a fundamental human experience but characteristic of all life as such. Through rich commentaries on anciens and modern philosophers, Bergson demonstrates the need for, and the radically new character of, his own theory of freedom.