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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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22. Henri Bergson: A Bibliography (Bibliographies of famous philosophers) by Pete Addison Y. Gunter | |
Hardcover: 557
Pages
(1986-05)
list price: US$25.00 Isbn: 0912632801 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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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Toward a new biophilosophy 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.
A Renewed Philosophy of Nature 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.
An Excellent book on Deleuze, Bergson and Biophilosophy
A compelling reason for setting the Academy alight. 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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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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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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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)
list price: US$52.50 Isbn: 0691032025 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description 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. |
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