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Title Beyond Bergson : examining race and colonialism through the writings of Henri Bergson / edited by Andrea J. Pitts and Mark William Westmoreland ; foreword by Leonard Lawlor.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 255 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY series, philosophy and race
SUNY series, philosophy and race.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The hope for this volume : sympathy / Leonard Lawlor -- Introduction : creative extensions / Andrea J. Pitts and Mark William Westmoreland -- Decolonizing Bergson : the temporal schema of the open and the closed / Alia Al-Saji -- The language of closure : homogeneity, exclusion, and the state / Martin Shuster -- The politics of sympathy in Bergson's the two sources of morality and religion / Melanie White -- Bergson, Senghor, and the philosophical foundations of négritude : intellect, intuition, and knowledge / Clevis Headley -- The spectacle of belonging : Henri Bergson's comic negro and the (im)possibility of place in the colonial metropolis / Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel -- Racial becomings : evolution, materialism, and Bergson in Spanish America / Adriana Novoa -- Bergsonism in post-revolutionary Mexico : Antonio Caso's theory of aesthetic intuition / Andrea J. Pitts -- Antagonism and myth : José Carlos Mariátegui's revolutionary Bergsonism / Jaime Hanneken.
Summary "Building upon recent interest in Henri Bergson's social and political philosophy, this volume highlights extensions and critiques of Bergson's writings through the lenses of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory. Placing Bergson's work in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America, the contributors examine Bergson's influence within literature, science studies, aesthetics, metaphysics, and social and political philosophy to show the role that his work has played within differing geopolitical contexts. The volume pays particular attention to both theoretical and practical forms of critical resistance work, including historical analyses of decolonial and anti-racist movements that have engaged with Bergson's writings, for instance, the Négritude movement, the Indigenismo movement, and the Peruvian Socialist Party. These historical and theoretical intersections provide a timely and innovative contribution to the existing scholarship on Bergson, and demonstrates the importance of Bergson's thought for contemporary social and political issues"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.
Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Pitts, Andrea J., editor.
Westmoreland, Mark William, 1983- editor.
Lawlor, Leonard, 1954- writer of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Beyond Bergson. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019] 9781438473512 (DLC) 2018020075 (OCoLC)1051777127
ISBN 9781438473536 (electronic book)
1438473532 (electronic book)
9781438473512
1438473516