The Crisis in modernism : Bergson and the vitalist controversy / edited by Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass.

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

xv, 405 pages ; 23 cm

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

The perpetual crises of modernism and the traditions of Enlightenment vitalism : with a note on Mikhail Bakhtin / George Rousseau.--Contemporary vitalism / Mikhail Bakhtin.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Romantic background to Bergson / Jack H. Haeger.--Sir Charles Bell and the vitalist controversy in the early nineteenth century / Frederick Burwick.--"The triumph of life" : Nietzsche's verbicide / Frederick Amrine.--Bergson's vitalism in the light of modern biology / Maria de Issekutz Wolsky and Alexander A. Wolsky.--Microphysical indeterminacy and freedom : Bergson and Peirce / Milič Čapek.--Vitalism, empiricism, and the quest for reality in German and English philosophy / Jürgen Klein.--Bergson and Sartre : the rise of French existentialism / P.A.Y. Gunter.--Vitalism and contemporary thought / Joseph Chiari.--Bergson and the politics of vitalism / Sanford Schwartz

Bergson and the discourse of the moderns / Richard Lehan.--Modern times : Stein, Bergson, and the ellipses of "American" writing / Joseph N. Riddel.--Deleuze's Bergson : Bergson redux / Paul Douglass

Includes bibliographic references and index