St. Augustine's Press
125 pages, 5” x 8”, paperback,
notes, short biography of Bergson,
bibliography, glossary, index, 2001
ISBN: 1-890318-11-6,
$11.00sp (£7.50)
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St. Augustine's Press |
Kolakowski
shows how Henri Bergson sought to reconcile Darwin’s theory with his
own beliefs about the nature of the universe. Bergson believed that time
could be thought of in two different ways: as an abstract measuring device
used for practical purposes, or as durée, the “real” time
we actually experience. He also held that all matter is propelled by an
internal élan vital, or life-drive, and that the life of the universe
is constantly creative and unpredictable. On the basis of these ideas he
constructed a system of thought that embraced his views on memory, matter,
consciousness, movement, religious morality, and the nature of laughter.
His pantheistic and dynamic vision of the universe, which emerged at a time
of crisis in Western intellectual life, was symptomatic of the struggle
between a rigid scientific determinism and the Christian tradition of a
divine creation. |
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| Bergson 125 pages, 5” x 8”, paperback, notes, short biography of Bergson, bibliography, glossary, index, 2001 ISBN: 1-890318-11-6, $11.00sp (£7.50) |