Matter and Memory
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781420978124 |
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Publisher: | Digireads.com |
Publication date: | 11/28/2021 |
Pages: | 174 |
Sales rank: | 310,507 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction | vii | |
Chapter I | Of the Selection of Images for Conscious Presentation. What our Body Means and Does | 1 |
Real action and virtual action | 1 | |
Representation | 8 | |
Realism and Idealism | 14 | |
The choice of images | 17 | |
Relation between representation and action | 35 | |
The image and reality | 45 | |
The image and affective sensation | 51 | |
Nature of affective sensation | 55 | |
The image, apart from sensation | 59 | |
Natural extension of images | 62 | |
Pure perception | 69 | |
Approach to the problem of matter | 73 | |
Memory | 81 | |
Chapter II | Of the Recognition of Images. Memory and Brain | 86 |
The two forms of memory | 86 | |
Movements and Recollections | 105 | |
Recollections and movements | 118 | |
Realization of memories | 145 | |
Chapter III | Of the Survival of Images. Memory and Mind | 170 |
Pure memory | 170 | |
What the present is | 176 | |
The unconscious | 181 | |
Existence | 189 | |
Relation of past and present | 191 | |
Memory and general ideas | 201 | |
The Association of Ideas | 212 | |
The plane of action and the plane of dream | 217 | |
The different planes of consciousness | 220 | |
Attention to life | 225 | |
Mental equilibrium | 227 | |
The Office of the body | 231 | |
Chapter IV | The Delimiting and Fixing of Images. Perception and Matter: Soul and Body | 233 |
The problem of dualism | 233 | |
Description of the Method | 238 | |
Indivisibility of movement | 246 | |
Real movement | 254 | |
Perception and matter | 259 | |
Duration and tension | 267 | |
Extensity and extension | 277 | |
Soul and body | 291 | |
Summary and Conclusion | 299 | |
Index | 333 |
What People are Saying About This
Matter and Memory was the diagnosis of a crisis in psychology. Movement, as physical reality in the external world, and the image, as psychic reality in consciousness, could no longer be opposed. The Bergsonian discovery of a movement-image, and more profoundly, of a time-image, still retains such richness today that it is not certain that all its consequences have been drawn.
Since the end of the Last century, philosophy has made a series of attempts to lay hold of the 'true' experience as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardized, denatured life of the civilized masses. It is customary to classify these efforts under the heading of a philosophy of life. Towering above this literature is Bergson's early monumental work, Matter and Memory.
Since the end of the Last century, philosophy has made a series of attempts to lay hold of the 'true' experience as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardized, denatured life of the civilized masses. It is customary to classify these efforts under the heading of a philosophy of life. Towering above this literature is Bergson's early monumental work, Matter and Memory.
Walter Benjamin“It would greatly distort Bergson to minimize the amazing description of perceived being given in Matter and Memory. Never before had anyone thus described the brute being of the perceived world. In unveiling it along with nascent duration, Bergson rediscovers in the heart of man a pre-Socratic and ‘prehuman’ sense of the world.”— Maurice Merleau-Ponty