LEADER 03727nam 22004815 450 001 9910337686703321 005 20240508234637.0 010 $a3-030-15487-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-15487-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000007992428 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5754926 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-15487-5 035 $a(Perlego)3494707 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007992428 100 $a20190416d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBergson's Philosophy of Self-Overcoming $eThinking without Negativity or Time as Striving /$fby Messay Kebede 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (295 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a3-030-15486-6 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Intuitive Knowledge via the Inversion of Intelligence -- 3. Duration and Self-Striving -- 4. Life as the Inversion of Materiality -- 5. Perception and the Genesis of the Subject -- 6. Memory and the Being of the Subject -- 7. Mysticism or the Overstepping of Nature. 330 $a"In this highly original study Messay Kebede shows himself to be an incisive and instructive reader of Bergson. He ably shows the enduring philosophical value of Bergson's philosophy and its pertinence to core philosophical problems. Especially impressive is the way he brings Bergson into rapport with thinkers and practices of philosophy from Nietzsche to phenomenology. The book is a most welcome contribution to the ongoing renaissance of interest in Bergson." - Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick, UK "With a new wave of Bergson scholarship emerging, Kebede's timely book will be both welcomed by and challenging to Bergson scholars. Rigorously navigating Bergson's major concepts, Kebede uses the notion of self-overcoming to open up new ways of understanding Bergson and resolving many of the tensions within the receptions of Bergson's philosophy. This is necessary reading for Bergson scholars." -Mark William Westmoreland, Villanova University, USA This book proposes a new reading of Bergsonism based on the admission that time, conceived as duration, stretches instead of passes. This swelling time is full and so excludes the negative. Yet, swelling requires some resistance, but such that it is more of a stimulant than a contrariety. The notion of élan vital fulfills this requirement: it states the immanence of life to matter, thereby deriving the swelling from an internal effort and allowing its conceptualization as self-overcoming. With self-overcoming as the inner dynamics of reality, Bergson dismisses all forms of dualism and reductionist monism because both the absence of negativity and the swelling nature of time posit a creative process yielding a qualitatively diverse world. This graded oneness is how the lower level activates intensification by turning into limitation, making possible higher levels of achievement, in particular through the union of mind and body and theintegration of openness and closed sociability. 606 $aContinental philosophy 606 $aMetaphysics 606 $aContinental Philosophy 606 $aMetaphysics 615 0$aContinental philosophy. 615 0$aMetaphysics. 615 14$aContinental Philosophy. 615 24$aMetaphysics. 676 $a194 676 $a194 700 $aKebede$b Messay$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0859245 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910337686703321 996 $aBergson?s Philosophy of Self-Overcoming$91917739 997 $aUNINA