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Author:  S. E. Gontarski, Paul Ardoin, Laci Mattison

Henri Bergson is frequently cited amongst the holy trinity of major influences on Modernism-literary and otherwise-alongside Sigmund Freud and William James. Gilles Deleuze’s Bergsonism has re-popularized Bergson for the 21st century, so much so that, perhaps, our Bergson is Deleuze’s Bergson. Despite renewed interest in Bergson, his influence remains understudied and consequently undervalued. While books examining the impact of Freud and James on Modernism abound, Bergson’s impact, though widely acknowledged, has been closely examined much more rarely. Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism remedies this deficiency in three ways. First, it offers close readings and critiques of six pivotal texts. Second, it reassesses Bergson’s impact on Modernism while also tracing his continuing importance to literature, media, and philosophy throughout the twentieth and into the 21st century. In its final section it provides an extended glossary of Bergsonian terms, complete with extensive examples and citations of their use across his texts. The glossary also maps the influence of Bergson’s work by including entries on related writers, all of whom Bergson either corresponded with or critiqued.

Understanding Bergson Understanding Modernism 1st Table of contents:

Part 1 Conceptualizing Bergson
1 (Re)Reading Time and Free Will: (Re)Discovering Bergson for the Twenty-First Century
Intuition
Intensity, duration, and freedom
Intensity
Duration
Freedom
Circling back: (Re)reading and (re)thinking
Notes
2 Bergson’s Matter and Memory: From Time to Space
Time for space
Notes
3 Comedies of Errors: Bergson’s Laughter in Modernist Contexts
Backgrounds in theory
Bergson’s theory of laughter
Theory and resistance
Notes
4 Sub Specie Durationis, or the Free Necessity of Life’s Creativeness in Bergson’s Creative Evolution
The problem of “life”: Between philosophy and science
Collège de France 1902–3 lectures: “Histoire de l’idée de temps”
Creative evolution
A different kind of Vitalism, perhaps?
A new “humanity,” yes. . .
Notes
5 A Reading of Two Sources of Morality and Religion, or Bergsonian Wisdom, Emotion, and Integrity
A source of Two Sources in Matter and Memory
E-movere: The movements of souls and the two sources of morality and religion
The “lived-experience” of emotion: Two not of a kind
Bergsonian wisdom: Emotion and the conditions for the possibility of integrity
Notes
6 The Inclination of Philosophy: The Creative Mind and the Articulation of a Bergsonian Method
Notes
Part 2 Bergson and Aesthetics
7 Bergson, Vitalism, and Modernist Literature
Introduction
Bergsonian philosophy: Key terms for poetics
Bergsonian poetics: Life-writing
Bergson and the modernists: An inner circle of turmoil
Modernism’s further Bergsonian circles
Understanding Modernism: The cash-value of Bergsonian poetics
Notes
8 Perception Sickness: Bergsonian Sensitivity and Modernist Paralysis
The necessity of the great deadener and the dangers of lifting the veil
Understanding modernism to understand Bergson
Notes
9 “Blast . . . Bergson?” Wyndham Lewis’s “Guilty Fire of Friction”
Notes
10 Bergson and Proust: A Question of Influence
A Bergson–Proust chronology
Notes
11 Joyce’s Matter and Memory: Perception and Memory-Events in Finnegans Wake
Notes
12 Minds Meeting: Bergson, Joyce, Nabokov, and the Aesthetics of the Subliminal
Education of the senses
Creative impulse and the reabsorption of debris
States of consciousness, interpenetrating
Flow
Schema and image
Notes
13 Modernist Energeia: Henri Bergson and the Romantic Idea of Language
Notes
14 H.D. ’s Intuitional Imagism: Memory, Desire, and the Image in Process
Introduction
H.D. and Imagism
Intuition and the image in “The Shrine”
Notes
15 Bergson and the Comedy of Horrors
Introduction
What is horror?
Why is Schindler’s List horrific? On chance and death
Bergson on the meaning of the comical
The comedy of horrors at the limits of representation
Concluding note on contingency and fabulation
Notes
16 Time and Free Will: Bergson, Modernism, Superheroes, and Watchmen
Modernism and spatial form
Einstein and spacetime
Comics as modernism
Bergson’s objection
Modernism and agency
Watchmen, agency, and ethics
Notes
17 The Joys of Atavism
Notes
Part 3 Glossary
18 Bergson on Art and Creativity
Notes
19 Bergson on Durée
Notes
20 Bergson on Élan Vital
Notes
21 Bergson on Evolution
Note
22 Bergson on Free Will and Creativity
Notes
23 Bergson on Habit and Perception
Notes
24 Bergson on Idealism and Realism
Notes
25 Bergson on Image and Representation
Notes
26 Bergson on Instinct
27 Bergson on Intuition
Notes
28 Bergson on Language
Notes
29 Bergson on Memory
Notes
30 Bergson on Movement and Spatialization
Notes
31 Bergson on Multiplicity
32 Bergson on Organization and Manufacture

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