Pitts / Westmoreland Beyond Bergson

Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7353-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Philosophy and Race

Examines Bergson’s work from the perspectives of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory, placing it in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pitts, Andrea J.

Westmoreland, Mark William

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lawlor, Leonard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: The Hope for this Volume: Sympathy
Leonard Lawlor

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Creative Extensions
Andrea J. Pitts and Mark William Westmoreland

Part I. Bergson on Colonialism, Social Groups, and the State

1. Decolonizing Bergson: The Temporal Schema of the Open and the Closed
Alia Al-Saji

2. The Language of Closure: Homogeneity, Exclusion, and the State
Martin Shuster

3. The Politics of Sympathy in Bergson’s The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
Melanie White

Part II. Bergsonian Themes in the Négritude Movement

4. Bergson, Senghor, and the Philosophical Foundations of Negritude: Intellect, Intuition, and Knowledge
Clevis Headley

5. The Spectacle of Belonging: Henri Bergson’s Comic Negro and the (Im)possibility of Place in the Colonial Metropolis
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel

Part III. Race, Revolution, and Bergsonism in Latin America

6. Racial Becomings: Evolution, Materialism, and Bergson in Spanish America
Adriana Novoa

7. Bergsonism in Postrevolutionary Mexico: Antonio Caso’s Theory of Aesthetic Intuition
Andrea J. Pitts

8. Antagonism and Myth: Jose Carlos Mariategui’s Revolutionary Bergsonism
Jaime Hanneken

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea J. Pitts is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Mark William Westmoreland is a doctoral candidate and instructor of ethics and philosophy at Villanova University.