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Paperback Bergson and History: Transforming the Modern Regime of Historicity Book

ISBN: 1438476248

ISBN13: 9781438476247

Bergson and History: Transforming the Modern Regime of Historicity

(Part of the SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought Series)

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Explores the philosophy of history of Henri Bergson and shows its relevance to contemporary historical thought.

Henri Bergson is famous for his explorations of time as duration, yet he rarely referred to history in his writings. Simultaneously, historians and philosophers of history have generally disregarded Bergson's ideas about the nature of time. Modernity has brought change at an ever-accelerating rate, and one of the results of this has been a tendency toward presentism. Only the here and now matters, as past and future have been absorbed by the "omnipresent present" of the digital age. In highlighting the role of history in the work of Bergson, Bergson and History shows how his philosophy of life allows us to revise the modern conception of history. Bergson's philosophy situates history within a broader framework of life as a creative becoming, allowing us to rethink important topics in the study of history, such as historical time, the survival of the past, and historical progress.

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