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Difference and the Liberation of Sufficient Reason
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) holds that every event and entity can be explained by a sufficient reason or cause. Philosophers have long struggled with the question of the PSR's compatibility with freedom, for if what occurs or exists follows necessarily from its sufficient reason then it seems it could not have been otherwise ...
Louis Matheou
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Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2011 A review of Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), 224 pp.
Rockwell Clancy
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Idea of Time in Bergson’s Lectures
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2020 The article focuses on two lecture courses - The Idea of time and The History of the Idea of Time - delivered by the French philosopher Henri Bergson at Collge de France in 1901-1903.
Andrey Sergeevich Menshikov
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Jacques Maritain, Maurice Blondel, and the Ends of Art
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article reconsiders Jacques Maritain's philosophical poetics by situating it within his longstanding debate with Maurice Blondel over the nature and unity of intellect. I argue that Maritain's influential defence of artistic autonomy, first articulated in Art et scolastique (1920), is ultimately unsound.
Steven Toussaint
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Human Rights and the Leap of Love
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2016 To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Henri Bergson’s death I present what I believe is his most vital and lasting contribution to political philosophy: his conception of human rights. This article has two goals.
Alexandre Lefebvre
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Adorno's empiricism?: On intellectual and metaphysical experience
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Adorno's work contains pregnant references to the concepts of both “intellectual” and “metaphysical” experience. While the concept of metaphysical experience figures relatively prominently in the Adorno literature, intellectual experience has been largely neglected—indeed to the point that certain scholars have asserted that the two concepts ...
Tom Whyman
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The Concept in Life and the Life of the Concept: Canguilhem’s Final Reckoning with Bergson
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2016 Foucault famously divided the history of twentieth-century French philosophy between a “philosophy of experience” and a “philosophy of the concept,” placing Bergson in the former camp and his teacher Canguilhem in the latter. This division has shaped the
Alex Feldman
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The Multiple Realities of Action: A Phenomenological Answer to the Question of Unsettled Contexts
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT How is action constituted when the taken‐for‐granted cultural resources and supports usually shaping it lose their taken‐for‐grantedness? This question is relevant to a range of culturally unsettled situations, including those stemming from crises, displacements and even extensive reflexivity.
Galit Ailon
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The Cinematic Bergson: From Virtual Image to Actual Gesture
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2016 Deleuze’s film-philosophy makes much of the notion of virtual images in Bergson’s Matter and Memory, but in doing so he transforms a psycho-meta-physical thesis into a (very) unBergsonian ontological one.
John Ó Maoilearca
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Supernormalising Nothing from the Hyperbolic Nihil to the Ordinary Supernothing
Open Philosophy, 2023 This essay connects the mystical concept of “supernothing” with Bergson’s notion of the image of nothingness as a movement in the making. I do this also with respect to the film The Empty Man (David Prior, 2020) – which explicitly cites Gorgias’s four ...
Ó Maoilearca John
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