Beyond Bergson
Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson
1st Edition
Published on 16. April 2019
274 pages
978-1-4384-7353-6 (ISBN)
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Examines Bergson's work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
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Reflowable
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978-1-4384-7353-6 (9781438473536)
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Andrea J. Pitts | Mark William Westmoreland
Beyond Bergson
Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson
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Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson
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Andrea J. Pitts is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Mark William Westmoreland is a doctoral candidate and instructor of ethics and philosophy at Villanova University.
Content
Foreword: The Hope for this Volume: Sympathy
Leonard Lawlor
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Creative Extensions
Andrea J. Pitts and Mark William Westmoreland
Part I. Bergson on Colonialism, Social Groups, and the State
1. Decolonizing Bergson: The Temporal Schema of the Open and the Closed
Alia Al-Saji
2. The Language of Closure: Homogeneity, Exclusion, and the State
Martin Shuster
3. The Politics of Sympathy in Bergson's The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
Melanie White
Part II. Bergsonian Themes in the Négritude Movement
4. Bergson, Senghor, and the Philosophical Foundations of Negritude: Intellect, Intuition, and Knowledge
Clevis Headley
5. The Spectacle of Belonging: Henri Bergson's Comic Negro and the (Im)possibility of Place in the Colonial Metropolis
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel
Part III. Race, Revolution, and Bergsonism in Latin America
6. Racial Becomings: Evolution, Materialism, and Bergson in Spanish America
Adriana Novoa
7. Bergsonism in Postrevolutionary Mexico: Antonio Caso's Theory of Aesthetic Intuition
Andrea J. Pitts
8. Antagonism and Myth: Jose Carlos Mariategui's Revolutionary Bergsonism
Jaime Hanneken
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Leonard Lawlor
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Creative Extensions
Andrea J. Pitts and Mark William Westmoreland
Part I. Bergson on Colonialism, Social Groups, and the State
1. Decolonizing Bergson: The Temporal Schema of the Open and the Closed
Alia Al-Saji
2. The Language of Closure: Homogeneity, Exclusion, and the State
Martin Shuster
3. The Politics of Sympathy in Bergson's The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
Melanie White
Part II. Bergsonian Themes in the Négritude Movement
4. Bergson, Senghor, and the Philosophical Foundations of Negritude: Intellect, Intuition, and Knowledge
Clevis Headley
5. The Spectacle of Belonging: Henri Bergson's Comic Negro and the (Im)possibility of Place in the Colonial Metropolis
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel
Part III. Race, Revolution, and Bergsonism in Latin America
6. Racial Becomings: Evolution, Materialism, and Bergson in Spanish America
Adriana Novoa
7. Bergsonism in Postrevolutionary Mexico: Antonio Caso's Theory of Aesthetic Intuition
Andrea J. Pitts
8. Antagonism and Myth: Jose Carlos Mariategui's Revolutionary Bergsonism
Jaime Hanneken
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
