An Introduction to Metaphysics (Henri Bergson Centennial)
Contributors: John Mullarkey (Editor); Michael Kolkman (Editor); Keith Ansell Pearson (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 4, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780230517233
Subjects: Metaphysics & ontology; Metaphysics; Philosophy / Metaphysics; Philosophy
First sentence: A COMPARISON of the definitions of metaphysics and the various conceptions of the absolute leads to the discovery that philosophers, in spite of their apparent divergencies, agree in distinguishing two profoundly different ways of knowing a thing.
Description: "This book is the key text for understanding the development of Bergson's thought from his early treatises on duration to the extension of this concept towards a general cosmology and an ethico-political ontology. In a new critical edition of this crucial work, the original authorised translation by T.E. Hulme has been restored and supplemented with new translations of Bergson's later amendments to the text, a guide to further reading and a new introduction."--Jacket.