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21. Philosophy and the Adventure of
 
22. Henri Bergson: A Bibliography
 
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23. Bergson and Russian Modernism:
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24. Germinal Life: The Difference
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25. Science or Literature?: The Divergent
 
26. FREEDOM & OPEN SOCIETY (Political
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27. Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and
 
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28. Bergson, Eliot, and American Literature
 
29. Bergson and American Culture:
 
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30. The Abacus and the Rainbow: Bergson,
 
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31. Ransoming the Time
32. Inventing Bergson

21. Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson and the Time of Life
by Keith Ansell-Pearson
Paperback: 240 Pages (2001-11-09)
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Informed by the philosophy of the virtual, Keith Ansell Pearson offers up one of the most lucid and original works on the central philosophical questions.He asks that if our basic concepts on what it means to be human are wrong then, what is this to mean for our ideas of time, being, consciousness?A critical examination ensues, one informed by a multitude of responses to a large number of philosophers.Under discussion is the mathematical limits as found in Russell, questions on Relativity, Kant's notion of judgement, Popper, Dennett, Dawkins and Proust.He brings into the rapport the concepts of Bergson and their explosive insights into the idea of time. ... Read more


22. Henri Bergson: A Bibliography (Bibliographies of famous philosophers)
by Pete Addison Y. Gunter
 Hardcover: 557 Pages (1986-05)
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23. Bergson and Russian Modernism: 1900-1930 (SRLT)
by Hilary L. Fink
 Hardcover: 169 Pages (1998-12-20)
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24. Germinal Life: The Difference and Repetition of Deleuze
by Ansell-Pearson
Hardcover: 270 Pages (1999-06-28)
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Asin: 0415183502
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Germinal Life embarks on a fascinating tour of ethology, biology, ethics, literature and cyborgs. Opening with a linking of Richard Dawkin's theory of the extended phenotype and Deleuzian thought, Ansell Pearson introduces the idea of germinal life to challenge traditional notions of ethology and philosophy.

By revisiting nineteenth century Darwinism and the origins of germ science, Keith Ansell Pearson develops a stunning reading of Deleuze's key texts. He also introduces highly original interpretations of classic modern literature, including Thomas Hardy's Tess and D.H.Lawrence's Kangaroo before connecting these themes with cyborgism and the work of the performance artist Stelarc.

As a companion to Ansell Pearson's Viroid Life, which explored Nietzsche's philosophy of the human, Germinal Life provides a highly original study of the biophilosophical aspectsof Deleuze's thought.Download Description
The companion volume to Keith Ansell Pearson's hugely successful Viroid Life.Taking its orientation from the though of Gilles Deleuze, Germinal Life embarks on a fascinating tour of ethology, biology, ethics, literature and cyborgs. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Toward a new biophilosophy
This is a collection of challenging and insightful essays bringing the still as yet relatively overlooked philosophical work of Deleuze & Guattari to bear on questions raised by contemporary biology, especially as it intersects so-called complexity theory. Besides a focus on population rather than individual (one of the meanings of their notorious call for "pop" philosophy), D/G also propose a "machinic" biology, one not centered on the organism as a whole in its putative connection to a similarly static environment, but one that follows multiple flows of energy and matter through the "rhizome" or interactive field that traverses what used to be seen as the whole organism, now inscribed as a mere node in that heterogenous field. Following these leads, Ansell Pearson's concern with "life" also includes questions of art, literature, and politics, endeavors which, to speak Aristotelian for a moment, were always considered the artificial from which the natural could be safely distinguished.

As itself a heterogenous "assemblage" of the type it investigates, Germinal Life sparkles with new connections and fresh insights. Few have read as widely and as well as KAP, and it shows. The author demonstrates, in addition to an easy familiarity with Deleuze and Deleuze/Guattari, a firm grasp ofthe classic work of Darwin and Bergson, as well as wide reading in the voluminous recent University Press literature documenting the contemporary life sciences and so-called complexity theory. For a reader with some familiarity with the basic themes ofits components, plugging into the machine of Germinal Life will be a productive experience indeed.

5-0 out of 5 stars A Renewed Philosophy of Nature
Keith Ansell-Pearson's "Germinal Life" situates itself at the nexus of three sets of concerns: Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of "difference," Bergson's philosophy of "life," and contemporary neo-evolutionary theories.Between these three themes, Ansell-Pearson weaves an intruiging web of interrelated questions and problems.Deleuze is partly responsible for the revival of interest in Bergson's writings, which had fallen into semi-obscurity in the early part of the twentieth-century.(Lévi-Strauss once commented that Bergson reduced everything to a state of mush in order to bring out its inherent ineffability.) But what is the nature of Deleuze's own "Bergsonism"? How and why does he appropriate the three primary concepts of Bergson's thought, intuition, memory, and élan vital?Most difficultly, how and in what sense can Bergson's "vitalism" be taken seriously given the developments in modern biology?Ansell-Pearson brings a wide range of resources to bear on these complex issues, all of which lie at the intersection of philosophy and biology.The book investigates the relation of Deleuze's thought to Darwin, Freud, and Nietzsche, and along the way provides helpful discussions of figures in the history of biology (Weismann, Geoffroy Saint-Hillaire), contemporary writers in the field (Gould, Dawkins, Goodwin, Margulis), as well as a number of lesser-known known figures that Deleuze himself championed (Simondon, Uexküll).

The thread that guides Ansell-Pearson throughout his research is the idea of a contemporary "bio-philosophy" or philosophy of life.This idea has far-reaching relevance.Kant is often said to have inaugurated modern philosophy with his "Copernican revolution": the conditions of the objects of knowledge must be the _same_ as the subjective conditions of knowledge itself.Against the ancient conception of wisdom, which defined the wise man by his submission to and accord with Nature, Kant set up an entirely new image of thought: humans are now the legislators of Nature.The subject, in other words, became constitutive.Ansell-Pearson's work is situated within a broader contemporary reaction against this Kantian heritage.His aim, he states, is to examine the possibility and implications of "thinking _beyond_ the human condition" (p. 2)."Germinal Life" thus continues the project of Ansell-Pearson's earlier book, "Viroid life."The latter analyzed Nietzsche's attempt to think the "transhuman" condition; the former pursues the same theme in the context of the "life sciences" (the subhuman and the superhuman).Both books, however, are framed by a fundamental ethical question:Does a biophilosophy entail a simple "disavowal" of the finitude and historicity of the human condition (p. 214)?Or on the contrary, as Ansell-Pearson argues, is it possible that a radically _ethical_ philosophy "must necessarily think trans- or overhumanly" (p. 3)?This question is all the more urgent given current developments in of informational and genetic technologies, which have already transformed our concept of the "human." In this sense, Ansell-Pearson's has opened a line of philosophical inquiry that will no doubt be of increasing importance in the future. It points to the possibility, and indeed the need, for something that largely disappeared from philosophy after Schelling, namely, a renewed philosophy of Nature.

Highly recommended.

5-0 out of 5 stars An Excellent book on Deleuze, Bergson and Biophilosophy
Germinal Life is the sequel to Keith Ansell Pearson's well-received book on Nietzsche and biophilosophy, Viroid Life, which appeared in 1997. It is also the middle-entry in what is unfolding as a series of three books examining the work of Nietzsche, Deleuze, and Bergson, the third of which will focus on the ontological concept of the `virtual' commonly found in both Bergson and Deleuze.Like any middle-child, one might expect such a volume as this to be somewhat troublesome, possessing neither the seniority of the first in the series (and the respect that goes with that) nor the relative youth and indulgence enjoyed by the latest arrival. To switch the analogy to one with literature, the novelty of the first book in any trilogy is seldom surpassed by what follows it, while the kudos of being the final entry where everything is brought to a climax is likewise unparalleled. This usually leaves the second book an intermediary role in the most anodyne sense, that of pushing the plot forward (normally by complication) and deepening the characterisation. What is uniquely philosophical about a trilogy of philosophy books may well thwart such a structural characterisation as this (especially if it is a trilogy in name only), but there is, nonetheless, evidence for this homology in Ansell Pearson's latest work: it builds on the main them of Viroid Life, namely contemporary biophilosophy and its significance for the `transhuman condition', by intensifying its interpretation of Deleuze's vitalist metaphysics (through reading Bergson in particular), while also anticipating future research into the various political implications of such a philosophy.In other words, the characterisation of Deleuze's philosophy (already a central component in Viroid Life) is deepened and the philosophical problematic of what going beyond `the human condition' truly entails is complicated. However, where Viroid Life played with themes that are fairly intoxicating (techno-theory, nihilism, viruses), used theorists who have always had a wide appeal (Nietzsche, Lyotard, Baudrillard), and did all this in a politically engaged manner, Germinal Life is temperate and measured in its progress: it provides more of the arguments necessary to support the points introduced so spectacularly in the earlier book.This is not to say that Germinal Life is dull by comparison, but rather that it is eminently philosophical (in this sense, all genuine philosophy would have to be called dull). Indeed, what is true of Ansell Pearson's work in general is also the hallmark of Deleuze's own oeuvre: beneath the apparently `flashy' surface (as Foucault once put it) there is a well thought-out metaphysics at work (for Ansell Pearson, the end of philosophy, which is to say, the end of metaphysics, is far from being upon us). It is only that the balance has shifted in this latest work: names like Baudrillard are still there (no less than Bergson and Deleuze were present in Viroid Life), only more as a background to the hard task of philosophising. Consequently, while Germinal Life may have less appeal amongst non-philosophers in cultural studies and sociology, it cannot fail to impress philosophers interested in biology, the history of Twentieth-century French thought, and the fundamentals of Deleuze's philosophy of immanence. This type of serious, philosophical engagement with Deleuze is all the more necessary now that the reception of his work in the English-speaking world is entering its second phase and moving away from basic introductions and commentaries to the appraisal of its actual value for contemporary debates.What Germinal Life admirably demonstrates is that, firstly, Deleuze's vitalist philosophy belongs to a tradition of non-mechanistic, non-teleological, and non-reductionist thought about evolution running from Bergson to Gilbert Simonden through Jacob Von Uexküll and Raymond Ruyer: but Ansell Pearson also argues for the tenability of this oft-derided approach by examining in great detail the latest research in favour of the creativity of evolution, evidence that shows us the non-hierarchical, relatively chaotic, and molecular phenomenon which is life, far removed from the unilinear, organicist, and perfectionist model normally drawn. These ideas are articulated through three chapters (bordered by an introduction and conclusion), on the theoretical relationship between Bergson and Deleuze (Chapter One), Deleuze and Darwin(ism) (Chapter Two), and creative evolution and Deleuze's `creative ethology' (Chapter Three). Clearly, the presence of Bergson looms large in these pages, and Ansell Pearson is as scholarly and expert as ever in his exposition of his thought and its influence on Deleuze.But this book is not only about the history of thought. As the title would suggest, its primary text is Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (1968), which is both the most biological and ontological of his works: as such, it is the text that constitutes - if any one book can - the bedrock of the Deleuzian philosophy. The method of transcendental empiricism was announced in Difference and Repetition and its delineation of this method brings together most of Deleuze's central ideas, be they ontological (the univocity of being, difference as the groundless ground of repetition, etc.) empirical (Deleuze's biophilosophy itself) or metaphilosophical (the shock of the new, the image of thought, and so on). Other texts from the Deleuzian corpus are invoked by Ansell Pearson when necessary, of course, especially the Logic of Sense (1969) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980) (the latter is particularly important for the third chapter). Overall, however, this focus on one text and one theme (biophilosophy) gives Germinal Life a continuous organisation: where Viroid Life was composed of a loosely integrated set of articles that, quite fittingly, dispersed its argument through the space of its chapters, Germinal Life, no less appropriately, fosters a continuity of argument over time, a germ-line of thought rather than a zig-zag line-of-escape (to recycle some of the most popular Deleuzian jargon).I recommend it wholeheartly to all those seriously interested in Deleuze, Bergson and the Philosophy of biology.

1-0 out of 5 stars A compelling reason for setting the Academy alight.
The wonderful thing about Sokal's original spoof was its demonstration that anything can be published regardless of content providing itundertakes to rehearse a series of recognisable scholastic gestures. Thiswould appear born out in its lukewarm reception among the more conservativecircles of academia -- one can only assume the precepts of caution thatinform academic life could be revealed in their cynicism by similarmeans.

Of course, spoofs needn't be witting, which brings me to `GerminalLife'. The prodigious awfulness of Ansell Pearson's writing can't beunderestimated, such as those times when its mode of presentation becomesinsanely imperious, every other word is forced into scare-quotes, andparagraphs (even sentences!) follow one another without apparentconnection.

I would urge you to buy it; passages such as

Deleuzehimself incisively notes that as a new thinking of the living body ethologyoffers "a new conception of the embodied individual, of species, and ofgenera" (1968: 236; 1992: 257). He argues that we should not neglect the"biological significance" of this new conception. Its chief importance,however, is said to be "juridical and ethical". He suggests that once wepose the problem of rights at the level of heterogeneous bodies then wenecessarily transform the whole philosophy of right(s). (p.199)

would beworth anyone's $75. The same could be said for the book's finalparagraph:

We must perform our critical engagement with Deleuze not interms of a simple condemnation or a mere repudiation, but in terms of theon-going battle we have with the problems, predicaments and pretensions ofphilosophy. It cannot simply be, however, a question of being for oragainst Deleuze; rather, the task should be one of implicating him in thecritical and clinical questions that constitute the very fold of our beingand our becoming those who we are. (p.224)

That Spinozan ethology is ofconsequence to rights and jurisprudence only to the extent that it servesto abolish them should be obvious to anyone, and if there's a programmebeneath these truisms, tautologies, non sequiturs and patentmisunderstandings (the final paragraph inexplicably alludes to Heidegger:`[Nietzsche,] in whose light and shadow everyone today thinks and reflectswith his "for him" or "against him", heard a command which demands apreparation of man for taking over a world domination', `The Question ofBeing' p.107) it's to forestall the replacement of ethics by ethology,albeit solely on the strength of a pained display of bogus scholarlydeliberation and diligence. For only thus will the world be made safe forthose factories of statist ideology known as universities and therefore forthis sort of ponderous garbage. ... Read more


25. Science or Literature?: The Divergent Cultures of Discovery and Creation
by Donald R. Maxwell
Hardcover: 165 Pages (2000-08-01)
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Donald R. Maxwell discusses the differences and similarities in the cultures and disciplines of literature and science, the origin of this dichotomy, the distinction in the use of language, and the differences in the practice of the two cultures. As distinct from literature, the physical sciences are empirical and concern truths that cannot be deduced intuitively. Science, not literature, is cumulative, predictive, and reproducible and its language is transparent and unambiguous. Literature attempts to give utterance to the ineffable and uses ambiguity, metaphor, and the evocation of memory to create new and wonderful worlds. Science discovers that which already exists while literature creates that which might never exist. These differences are illustrated by the writings of Marcel Proust, Henri Bergson, and others. ... Read more


26. FREEDOM & OPEN SOCIETY (Political Theory and Political Philosophy)
by Kennedy
 Hardcover: 278 Pages (1987-03-01)
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27. Vladimir Nabokov: Bergsonian and Russian Formalist Influences in His Novels
by Michael Glynn
Hardcover: 224 Pages (2007-11-13)
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This study seeks to counter the critical orthodoxy that conceives of Vladimir Nabokov as a Symbolist writer concerned with a transcendent reality. ... Read more


28. Bergson, Eliot, and American Literature
by Paul Douglass
 Hardcover: 210 Pages (1986-11)
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29. Bergson and American Culture: The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens
by Tom Quirk
 Hardcover: 302 Pages (1990-02)
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30. The Abacus and the Rainbow: Bergson, Proust, and the Digital-Analogic Opposition (Studies in the Humanities: Literature-Politics-Society)
by Donald R. Maxwell
 Hardcover: 280 Pages (1999-09)
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Donald R. Maxwell analyzes the concepts of time, memory, self, and thought in Proust'sla recherche du temps perdu and in the philosophy of Henri Bergson. Dr. Maxwell introduces the digital-analogic opposition (abacus and rainbow) that permeates Bergson's philosophy. Bergson's analysis of memory is distinct from Proust's, but resembles that of contemporary neurophysiology. He specifies two aspects of being, as well as the twinning of self in memory, which are both present throughout Proust's great novel. While Bergson uses linguistic imagery to communicate his philosophy, Proust's use of language is more to suggest, evoke, and create.Both Bergson and Proust describe the process of artistic creation in related yet contrasting ways. Dr. Maxwell provides new insight into the origins of the similarities between Bergson's philosophy and elements of the Proustian universe. ... Read more


31. Ransoming the Time
by Jacques Maritain
 Hardcover: 322 Pages (1972-06)
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32. Inventing Bergson
by Mark Antliff
Hardcover: 260 Pages (1992-12-14)
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At the turn of the century the philosophy of Henri Bergson captivated France, and Bergson's theories of intuition and elan vital influenced artistic and political notions of the supreme individual, the collective consciousness of a class or race, and the esprit of the nation itself. Here Mark Antliff demonstrates how various artists in prewar France positioned themselves and their art in this plurality of political discourse. By interrelating such movements as Futurism, Cubism, and Fauvism, he elucidates the pervasive impact of Bergson on Modernism in Europe, especially in terms of theories of organic form.

Antliff defines the anarcho-individualism of Gino Severini as it relates to the anarcho-syndicalism of other Futurists, and contrasts both to the Puteaux Cubists, who embraced a leftist discourse of Celtic nationalism. All these groups, including the "Rhythmists," an international group of Fauve painters, defined their Bergsonism in reaction to the campaign against Bergson launched by the royalist organization L'Action Franaise. Antliff shows that the organicism central to the Bergsonism of these leftist groups had a postwar legacy in fascist ideologies in France and Italy, and charts the transformation of an anticapitalist critique into the politics of reaction. Thus Antliff relates the Bergsonism of these movements to the larger political culture confronted by the Parisian avant-garde, exposing the volatile relation of art and culture to ideology in prewar France. ... Read more


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