Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:04:03 +0100
Subject: SPOON-ANN: Deleuze's 1956 paper


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Dear all,

You may like to know that Deleuze's 1956 essay, 'La  Conception de la 
Différence chez Bergson' which first appeared in Les Etudes Bergsoniennes, 4 
(1956), pp. 77-112, has now ben published for the first time in English in

The New Bergson, edited by John Mullarkey (Manchester University  Press and 
St Martin's Press, 1999). This volume collects together the latest work on 
the continued significance of Bergson's work for our age, much of which 
comes from a Deleuzian perspective. Publication details and blurb follow

John Mullarkey

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Paperback - 256 pages ( 1 April, 1999)
                    ISBN: 0719055539
Hardcover - 256 pages ( 1 April, 1999)
                    ISBN: 0719053803


                       No philosopher has been as important to our age as 
Henri Bergson. At the threshold of the twentieth century, he reset
                       the agenda of philosophy and its relationship with 
science, art and life itself. Concerned with both examining and extolling
                       the phenomena of time, change, and difference, he was 
at one point held as both 'the greatest thinker in the world' and
                       'the most dangerous man in the world'. Yet the impact 
of his ideas was so all-pervasive amongst artists, philosophers,
                       and politicians alike, that by the end of the Great 
War it had become impossibly diffuse. In a manner imitating his own
                       cult of change, the Bergsonian school departed from 
the scene almost as quickly as it had arrived on it. As part of a
                       current resurgence of interest in Bergson both in 
Europe and North America, this collection of essays addresses the
                       significance of this philosophical legacy for 
contemporary thought. It is not intended as an historical investigation,
                       however: as a truly new reading of Bergson, his work 
is examined in terms set by modern debates in metaphysics,
                       relativity theory, evolutionary theory, philosophy of 
mind, environmentalism, and aesthetics. Written in an accessible
                       manner by an international field of academics, it 
will prove rewarding to teachers and students alike in philosophy,
                       physics, biology, psychology, art history, and film 
studies.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION        La Philosophie Nouvelle or Change in Philosophy

I HISTORY AND METHOD
Richard A. Cohen         Philo, Spinoza, Bergson: The Rise of an Ecological 
Age
Garrett Barden      Method in Philosophy
          
II ONTOLOGY
Gilles Deleuze      Bergson's Conception of Difference
Timothy S. Murphy        Beneath Relativity: Bergson and Bohm on Absolute 
Time

III MIND
A Letter from Bergson to Dewey
Frédéric Worms      Matter and Memory on Mind and Body: Final Statements
               and New Perspectives
Marie Cariou        Bergson: The Keyboards of Forgetting
Eric Matthews       Bergson's Concept of a Person
F. C. T. Moore      Magic


IV LIFE
Keith Ansell-Pearson     Bergson and Creative Evolution/Involution:
               Exposing the Transcendental Illusion of Organismic Life
P. A. Y. Gunter          Bergson and the War Against Nature

V ART
Mark Antliff        The Rhythms of Duration: Bergson and the Art of Matisse
Paul Douglass       Bergson and Cinema: Friends or Foes?