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- SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought
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书名: Bergson-Deleuze Encounters: Transcendental Experience and the Thought of the Virtual (SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought)
作者: Valentine Moulard-leonard (Author)
出版社: State University of New York Press (August 7, 2008)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 079147531X
ISBN-13: 978-0791475317
Book Description
Explores the continuities and discontinuities in the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze.
Bergson-Deleuze Encounters sheds light on the intricate bond between French philosophers Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. It explores the major diffraction between the two thinkers, conveys a sense of the irreducible originality of Deleuze's thought, and offers a detailed account of Bergson's "Copernican Revolution." In so doing, it presents an explanation of thought and experience that contrasts with the dominant account of the phenomenological tradition. Valentine Moulard-Leonard argues that Bergson and Deleuze share a novel conception of the transcendental--which they call the Virtual--that marks a new era in thinking, in which what is ultimately at stake is a new vision of time, experience, and materiality. The Virtual provides an indispensable alternative to the totalizing systems spawned by the traditional transcendent image of thought--be they systems of idealism, scientific positivism, nationalism, racism, sexism, or dogmatism.
Review
"The relationship between Bergson's and Deleuze's works has yet to be explored fully, and the author makes a strong case for a fundamental continuity in their thought. Her focus on them as advocates of a post-Kantian philosophy of transcendental experience brings to the fore the fundamental ontological and epistemological dimensions of their thought." -- Ronald Bogue, author of Deleuze's Wake: Tributes and Tributaries
About the Author
Valentine Moulard-Leonard is an independent scholar living in Memphis, Tennessee.
