Andrea J. Pitts & Mark William Westmoreland 
Beyond Bergson [EPUB ebook] 
Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson

Building upon recent interest in Henri Bergson’s social and political philosophy, this volume offers a series of fresh and novel perspectives on Bergson’s writings through the lenses of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory. Contributors place Bergson’s work in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America to examine Bergson’s influence on literature, science studies, aesthetics, metaphysics, and social and political philosophy within these geopolitical contexts. The volume pays particular attention to both theoretical and practical forms of critical resistance work, including historical analyses of anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist movements that have engaged with Bergson’s writings—for example, the Négritude movement, the Indigenismo movement, and the Peruvian Socialist Party. These historical and theoretical intersections provide a timely and innovative contribution to the existing scholarship on Bergson, and demonstrate the importance of his thought for contemporary social and political issues.

Cuprins

Foreword: The Hope for this Volume: Sympathy


Leonard Lawlor



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Creative Extensions


Andrea J. Pitts and
Mark William Westmoreland




Part I. Bergson on Colonialism, Social Groups, and the State



1. Decolonizing Bergson: The Temporal Schema of the Open and the Closed


Alia Al-Saji



2. The Language of Closure: Homogeneity, Exclusion, and the State


Martin Shuster



3. The Politics of Sympathy in Bergson’s
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion


Melanie White




Part II. Bergsonian Themes in the Négritude Movement



4. Bergson, Senghor, and the Philosophical Foundations of Negritude: Intellect, Intuition, and Knowledge


Clevis Headley



5. The Spectacle of Belonging: Henri Bergson’s Comic Negro and the (Im)possibility of Place in the Colonial Metropolis


Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel




Part III. Race, Revolution, and Bergsonism in Latin America



6. Racial Becomings: Evolution, Materialism, and Bergson in Spanish America


Adriana Novoa



7. Bergsonism in Postrevolutionary Mexico: Antonio Caso’s Theory of Aesthetic Intuition


Andrea J. Pitts



8. Antagonism and Myth: Jose Carlos Mariategui’s Revolutionary Bergsonism


Jaime Hanneken



Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Despre autor

Andrea J. Pitts is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
Mark William Westmoreland is a doctoral candidate and instructor of ethics and philosophy at Villanova University.