Bergson and History: Transforming the Modern Regime of Historicity

by Leon Ter Schure

Book Overview

Henri Bergson is famous for his explorations of time as duration, yet he rarely referred to history in his writings. Simultaneously, historians and philosophers of history have generally disregarded Bergson's ideas about the nature of time. Modernity has brought change at an ever-accelerating rate, and one of the results of this has been a tendency toward presentism. Only the here and now matters, as past and future have been absorbed by the "omnipresent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438476248
• ISBN13: 9781438476247
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"