Understanding Bergson, understanding modernism

Henri Bergson is frequently cited amongst the holy trinity of major influences on Modernism-literary and otherwise-alongside Sigmund Freud and William James. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism has re-popularized Bergson for the twenty-first century, so much so that, perhaps, our Bergson is Deleuze's Bergson. Despite renewed interest in Bergson, his influence remains understudied and consequently undervalued. While books examining the impact of Freud and James on Modernism abound, Bergson's impact, though widely acknowledged, has been closely examined much more rarely. Understanding Bergson, Understan.

Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Introduction -- About the year 1910": Bergson and Literary Modernism -- Notes -- Part 1: Conceptualizing Bergson -- Chapter 1: (Re)Reading Time and Free Will: (Re)Discovering Bergson for the Twenty-First Century -- Intuition -- Intensity, duration, and freedom -- Intensity -- Duration -- Freedom -- Circling back: (Re)reading and (re)thinking -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Bergson's Matter and Memory: From Time to Space -- Time for space -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Comedies of Errors: Bergson's Laughter in Modernist Contexts -- Backgrounds in theory -- Bergson's theory of laughter -- Theory and resistance -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Sub Specie Durationis, or the Free Necessity of Life's Creativeness in Bergson's Creative Evolution -- The problem of "life": Between philosophy and science -- Collège de France 1902-3 lectures: "Histoire de l'idée de temps" -- Creative evolution -- A different kind of Vitalism, perhaps? -- A new "humanity," yes. . . -- Notes -- Chapter 5: A Reading of Two Sources of Morality and Religion, or Bergsonian Wisdom, Emotion, and Integrity -- A source of Two Sources in Matter and Memory --…