Bergson and history transforming the modern regime of historicity
"In this book, Leon ter Schure demonstrates the value of Bergson's philosophy of life for a more expansive understanding of history. Bergson is known for his explorations of time as duration, yet in his writings rarely referred to history. At the same time, historians and philosophers of h...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany
State University of New York Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | SUNY series in contemporary French thought.
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: history, presentism, Bergsonism
- The case of the London Cenotaph
- Historiography, modernity and the acceleration of time
- Bergson and the crisis of the modern regime of historicity
- A world made out of time
- The survival of the past
- Historical creation
- The dream of progress
- Conclusion: assessing presentism.