{"product_id":"key-writings-9781472528018","title":"Key Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe twentieth century - with its unprecedented advances in technology and scientific understanding - saw the birth of a distinctively new and 'modern' age. Henri Bergson stood as one of the most important philosophical voices of that tumultuous time. An intellectual celebrity in his own life time, his work was widely discussed by such thinkers as William James, Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, as well as having a profound influence on modernist writers such as Wallace Stevens, Willa Cather and Wyndham Lewis and later thinkers, most notably Gilles Deleuze. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eKey Writings\u003c\/i\u003e brings together Bergson's most essential writings in a single volume, including crucial passages from such major work as \u003ci\u003eTime and Free Will\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMatter and Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCreative Evolution\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMind-Energy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Creative Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Two Sources of Morality and Religion\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLaughter\u003c\/i\u003e. The book also includes Bergson's correspondences with William James and a chronology of his life and work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeith Ansell Pearson holds a Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn ? Maoilearca is Professor of Film and Television Studies at Kingston University, UK. He is the author \u003ci\u003eof Bergson and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh UP, 1999), \u003ci\u003ePost-Continental Philosophy: An Outline \u003c\/i\u003e(Continuum, 2006) and \u003ci\u003eRefractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHenri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most important philosophical figures of the earlier twentieth-century, a cult figure in his day and a profound influence on such thinkers and writers as William James, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873378865426,"sku":"9781472528018","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_56330b7c-5eb6-4ecc-a27d-17632f4df784.jpg?v=1737930413","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/key-writings-9781472528018","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}