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Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson
1. Life and works Bergson was born in Paris on October 18, 1859; he was the second of seven children of a Polish Father and English mother; both of his parents were Jewish. Bergson was a notably exceptional pupil throughout his childhood. Like his German contemporary, Edmund Husserl, Bergson's original training was in mathematics. Bergson won the first prize in mathematics for the prestigious “Concours Général,” which led to the publication of his solution to a problem by Pascal in 1877. In 1878, Bergson became a French citizen, although he could have chosen English citizenship. His first scholarly publication was in 1886, in the Revue Philosophique; “On Unconscious Simulation in States of Hypnosis” concerns the results of his observations at sessions of hypnosis. Bergson's second book, Matter and Memory, appeared in 1896. In January 1913, Bergson visited the United States for the first time (Soulez et Worms 2002, p. 134). Bergson died on January 3, 1941 at the age of 81. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Deleuze, Gilles   Deleuze is a key figure in postmodern French philosophy. Considering himself an empiricist and a vitalist, his body of work, which rests upon concepts such as multiplicity, constructivism, difference, and desire, stands at a substantial remove from the main traditions of 20th century Continental thought. His thought locates him as an influential figure in present-day considerations of society, creativity and subjectivity. Notably, within his metaphysics he favored a Spinozian concept of a plane of immanence with everything a mode of one substance, and thus on the same level of existence. Gilles Deleuze began his career with a number of idiosyncratic yet rigorous historical studies of figures outside of the Continental tradition in vogue at the time. Table of Contents 1. Gilles Deleuze was born in the 17th arrondisment of Paris, a district that, excepting periods in his youth, he lived in for the whole of his life. 2. The history of philosophy isn’t a particularly reflective discipline.

Browse By Author: B Différance William James (ca. 1895, in , ed. by Henry James, Boston, 1920) 1. Chronology of James's Life 1842. 2. “Remarks on Spencer's Definition of Mind as Correspondence” (1878) Although he was officially a professor of psychology when he published it, James's discussion of Herbert Spencer broaches characteristic themes of his philosophy: the importance of religion and the passions, the variety of human responses to life, and the idea that we help to “create” the truths that we “register” (E, 21). James's characteristic empiricism appears in his claim that values and categories fight it out in the course of human experience, and that their conflicts “can only be solved ambulando, and not by any a priori definition.” “The Sentiment of Rationality” (1879, 1882) The substance of this essay was first published in Mind in 1879 and in the Princeton Review in 1882, and then republished in The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy in 1897. 3. Even “introspection” covers a range of reports. 4. 5.

Deleuze pensando al cine. Tres tesis sobre movimiento recuperadas desde Henri Bergson. | Paradigmas ¿Qué implica pensar el fenómeno del movimiento? Surgen a partir de ésta inquietud una serie de preguntas acerca de si resultaría pertinente intentar hablar de tal suceso de maneras menos apegadas a conocimientos de la física tradicional, pensando en el verdadero acontecer que el proceso mismo del movimiento presenta a la percepción humana, lejos de resumir el asunto en fórmulas matemáticas. ¿Qué significa que todo esté en movimiento? ¿Cómo es que tal fenómeno se desenvuelve dentro del flujo de tiempo? Se expondrán aquí las tres tesis sobre movimiento que Deleuze reconfigura desde Bergson, estableciendo las diversas distinciones que se establecerían frente a las filosofías que igualmente han trabajado sobre tales categorías, pero con un carácter claramente distinto. Consecuentemente, hace Deleuze referencia a las críticas que el mismo Bergson, dentro de La evolución creadora, plantea con respecto a la constitución del cine como ilusión cinematográfica. Be Sociable, Share! Sugerencias:

The European Graduate School - Media and Communication - Graduate & Postgraduate Studies Program Manuel DeLanda Annotated Bibliography This page comprises an annotated bibliography of the work of philosopher Manuel DeLanda (1952-). DeLanda addresses a broad range of scientific and cultural concerns, and has written on topics as diverse as warfare, linguistics, economics, evolution, chaos theory, self-organizing matter, nonlinear dynamics, artificial life and intelligence, the internet and architecture, amongst many others. He draws especially on the work of the late French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and many of his essays explicitly seek to demonstrate the utility of Deleuze's work for thinking about current scientific and philosophical problems. DeLanda teaches at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York. Comments, corrections, additional texts and broken links can be reported to mdlbib@cyberchimp.co.uk. Manuel DeLanda, 'Wittgenstein at the Movies' presented at Cinema Histories, Cinema Practices I, University of Southern California, Monterey, California, May 1981

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