Henri Bergson Centennial Series
Series Editor: Professor Keith Ansell Pearson
'Palgrave Macmillan is to be congratulated for reissuing these classic
Bergson texts. This is a timely decision since Bergson was the great thinker
of life and it seems, nearly one hundred years later, that we find ourselves
once again required to conceive life.'
- Professor Leonard Lawlor, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis,
USA
About the Series
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is one of the truly great philosophers of the
modernist period, and there is currently a major renaissance of interest in
his unduly neglected texts and ideas amongst philosophers, literary
theorists, and social theorists. Bergson preoccupied himself with problems
that continue to remain at the centre of philosophical inquiry, including
the nature of consciousness, of time and memory, of freedom, and the
significance of evolution. The publication of these three texts should serve
to correct the widespread misconception of Bergson as a mystical vitalist,
as well as encouraging the teaching of Bergson at both undergraduate and
graduate levels. Taken together these texts demonstrate the precise nature
and full extent of Bergson’s commitment to a true or genuine empiricism, an
empiricism that has the potential to inspire fresh philosophical thinking
today.
Introduction to Metaphysics (1903) contains Bergson’s classic
statement that to philosophise is to reverse the habitual directions of our
thinking, as well as his claim that a true empiricism amounts to a true
metaphysics. Creative Evolution (1907) is the text that made Bergson
world-famous in his own lifetime; in it Bergson responds to the challenge
presented to our habits of thought by modern evolutionary theory, and
attempts to show that the theory of knowledge must have its basis in a
theory of life. Mind-Energy is a collection of essays and lectures
from the period 1901-13 and has long been out of print. It features essays
on life and consciousness, soul and body, mind and brain, and on dreams,
memory and the phenomenon of false recognition; the insights Bergson
develops in them remain highly pertinent to contemporary work in the
philosophy of mind. Each text has a new editor’s Introduction, a set of
critical annotations, and a guide to further reading.
An
Introduction to Metaphysics
by Henri Bergson, with an introduction by John Mullarkey
June 2007 | Paperback
| £10.99
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Mind Energy
with an introduction by Keith Ansell Pearson
June 2007 | Hardback
| £50.00
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Creative Evolution
with an introduction by Keith Ansell Pearson
July 2007 | Hardback |
£65
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Series Editor:
Professor Keith Ansell Pearson
Department of Philosophy
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
