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Explore how true understanding moves beyond fixed definitions to the lived experience of reality. This concise introduction examines two fundamental ways of knowing a thing: one that observes from the outside and one that enters into it from within. It argues that only intuition can grasp the object as it is in itself, while analysis tends to translate the moving world into static concepts.
In these pages, you’ll encounter clear discussions of duration, intuition, and the limits of symbolic reasoning. The author contrasts the inner, changing nature of experience with the flat view of analysis, and explains how science and philosophy fit into this ongoing debate. The work invites readers to rethink what it means to know something and to consider how our methods shape what we call knowledge.
- How intuition offers access to the absolute, beyond external viewpoints.
- Why analysis translates experience into symbols and why that changes what we perceive.
- The role of duration and becoming in our understanding of mind and reality.
- How Kantian and Platonist ideas relate to modern science and metaphysics.
Ideal for readers of philosophy who want a precise, accessible entry into Bergson’s ideas and their impact on how we think about knowledge, experience, and reality.
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'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. Keith Ansell Pearson and John Mullarkey have been at the forefront of the new conception of life, therefore no better editors for these volumes could be selected.' - Professor Leonard Lawlor, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA
'Long absent from the center of discussion in Western philosophy, Bergson has recently made a reappearance. The Centennial Series of his works undertaken by Palgrave Macmillan thus comes at an opportune time, making it possible for those interested in Bergson's ideas t have access to newly annotated versions of several of his chief writings, freshly introduced and discussed. It is particularly good to see the republication of Mind-Energy, a treasure trove of Bergsonian insights long out of print.' - Professor Pete A.Y. Gunter, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of North Texas, USA
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Bergson won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1927.
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