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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Henri Bergson"”.
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Henri Bergson, Duree Reelle and high modernism.
… status and popular appeal of the philosopher Henri Bergson in the first decade of the 20th century is said to have exceeded even that of his fellow Parisian, Jean-‐Paul Sartre in the 1950s. Bergson was an important influence on modernism, achieving a particular resonance with the ‘high …
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Henri Bergson and the Superiority Theory of Humor
… Finally, after an interpretation of Bergson?s theory as a superiority theory, Bergson?s writing is used to address the problems of that theory.
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Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson: a comparison of their moral philosophies
The similarities between Nietzsche and Bergson can be seen in the reactions of both thinkers to Darwinism, the vitalism that both philosophers utilized to explain life's evolution, the distinction made by the two thinkers between men and great men, the developmental frame of reference applied by …
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Joy as Attunement and End in the Philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Henri Bergson
… as a fundamental attunement through the works of Henri Bergson and Martin Heidegger. We will focus attention on the common theme of "the nothing" and its place in the ontologies of both philosophers. We will argue that Heidegger's use of anxiety is the result of the place of the nothing in his …
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Time for a change: the influence of the writings of Henri Bergson and Arthur Symons on the short stories of Katherine Mansfield
… the influence of the philosophical ideas of Henri Bergson and the French symbolist movement on the short stories of the New Zealand writer, Katherine Mansfield.
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Senses of the Future in 19th Century France and America, with Reference to the Philosophies of Victor Cousin, Henri Bergson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William James
… a group of philosophers in Victor Cousin, Henri Bergson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William James, each of whom sought to resolve past, present, and future in a true vision of the world. I argue that these visions should be characterised as sets of practical accomplishments. That is to say, …
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Writing and directing the short film "Before it's gone".
… also examined through the various philosophical (Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze), literary (Marcel Proust, Patrick Modiano), and filmic (Orson Welles, Alain Resnais) influences that informed the film. As an academic turned filmmaker, this thesis also chronicles my first forays into filmmaking, as …
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Art Through Sensation: Unfolding Image and Text Together, Through Bacon, Bergson and Jung
… Gilles Deleuze), the metaphysics of philosopher Henri Bergson and the psychology of Carl Jung. The book attempts to build an in-between; to start with givens and fill in the space that blends them together into a smooth transition (intensity). Bringing ideas from philosophy, psychology and art …
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The Philosophy of Time in Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves
… and scientific temporal theories of Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The study highlights the examination of time as a process that has obsessed centuries of writers, intellectuals, and scholars. It also demonstrates Woolf’s belief that the concept of time is a …
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A proposal for the Museum of Art/Tallahassee at the Wahnish Cigar Factory Historic Site in the All Saints District
… It is a critical process of revealing similar to Henri Bergson's description of the evolutionary moment: "Each moment is not only something new, but something unforeseeable;... change is far more radical than we suppose - to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating one's self …
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La déclinaison de la variation. Sur la notion de multiplicité chez Gilles Deleuze
… of Bernhard Riemann and the philosophy of Henri Bergson. Our purpose is to go through the various appearances of this relationship and to reconstruct the fundamental axes of an original concept of multiplicity that we believe Deleuze's thought holds. Thus, our inquiry, via a strategic …
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Η αρχαία ελληνική τραγωδία μέσα από το πρίσμα της νιτσεϊκής και της μπερξονικής φιλοσοφίας
… σκέψης του Friedrich Nietzsche και του Henri Bergson, αναδεικνύοντας τις θεωρητικές συγκλίσεις και αποκλίσεις των δύο στοχαστών μέσα από τη συγκριτική εξέταση των βασικών φιλοσοφικών τους εννοιών. Ως προς τη νιτσεϊκή ερμηνεία, η τραγωδία ερευνάται μέσα από τις πρωταρχικές θεματικές του …
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Literary urbanism, visuality and modernity
… chapter four, and introduces T.E. Hulme and Henri Bergson as theorists who develop a means of thinking the city through internal consciousness, not geographic space. This initiates chapter five‘s interest in how Pound and Eliot use metaphors of illumination to articulate how perceptions of …
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Lost in Time: The Concept of Temporality in Works of the US Lost Generation
… of influential thinkers of the period such as Henri Bergson, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Walter Benjamin to create a background for further discussion and analysis of the novels. The following chapter provides the historical and cultural context of modernism to introduce major …
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The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Making a Technology of Consciousness in the Long 1960s
… by the evolutionary philosophy of Henri Bergson—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin referred to as the noosphere and Marshall McLuhan as the global village. Experimental videographers across several fields were also influenced by the psychedelic research of the 1950s and early 1960s, by the …
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Cosmopolitas da mesma aldeia: um estudo sobre a formação e a consolidação do sistema literário moçambicano a partir da obra de quatro poetas
… de sistema literário, os conceitos de memória de Henri Bergson e Maurice Hallbwachs, a discussões sobre intertextualidade e leitura de Laurent Jenny e Antoine Compagnon. Sobre os autores, especificamente, trabalharemos com textos pontuais de críticos como Ana Mafalda Leite, Francisco Noa, Alfredo …
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The Feminine Self as a Critique of Spirit: A Cultural Phenomenology
… critique of spirit through the philosophies of Henri Bergson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Johann Bachofen and especially the classicist Jane Ellen Harrison. With the exception of Bergson, these philosophers of culture are united by a phenomenological attendance to the domains of art, mythology and …
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The Canto of Ezra Pound as a Process Model
… leading to a goal.”</p> <p>The philosophy of Henri Bergson was influential in redefining the idea of process for twentieth century man, and, influenced by his ideas, the artists and writers who developed the Vortex movement of 1910-1920 were contemporaneous with Albert Einstein and Michael …
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Towards an ethics of otherness: re-considering birth, time, and silence in education
… teaching. Time is addressed through the works of Henri Bergson and Michel Serres. In this chapter, time is likened to poetry, and the notion of modern time is criticized for its insistence on linearity, for which Bergson and Serres offer alternate possibilities. The work returns to Serres to …
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An Ontology of Images and Painterly Subjectivity: Towards a Bergsonian Philosophy of Art
… to consider the identity of the contemporary Bergsonian philosophy of immanence by reflection on key conceptualisations from the work of Henri Bergson. From the view that thinking Bergsonian is an attitude of philosophy that anticipates the metaphysics of a philosophy of process, the demands …
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