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FREEDOM - HENRI BERGSON KARTONIERT (TB)

For 15 years  Henri Bergson  the most important French philosopher of the early 20th-century 
taught at the Collège de France. Speaking without notes  most of his classes are now lost to
history  but records of a handful of courses fortuitously survived thanks to stenographic
transcripts. Conveying Bergson's very voice  these extraordinary documents are finally
presented here in English. The 1904-1905 lectures are dedicated to the topic of freedom  or as
Bergson put it  the evolution of the problem of freedom. Building on the philosophy of freedom
from his first book  Time and Free Will  he proposes that freedom is not only a fundamental
human experience but characteristic of all life as such. By retracing how ancient and modern
philosophers have dealt with the delicate question of freedom  Bergson demonstrates the
necessity  and also the radically new character  of his own theory of freedom. Bergson's
lectures are a feast for many audiences. For philosophers  they give a fuller picture of his
thought and contain deep reflections on many core topics in philosophy today  from the nature
of time to the difference between brain and mind  the relation between memory and perception 
and the vindication of freedom over determinism. For intellectual historians  the lectures are
a treasure trove: as a slice of the living thought of a great thinker  as an extended analysis
of the natural and human sciences of his day  and as a rich commentary on the history of
ancient and modern philosophy. Finally  for cultural historians and literary scholars  the
lectures were the cultural capital of Belle Époque France  consumed by elites and a vast
educated public. They are also part of an exceedingly rare genre in modern philosophy: spoken 
not written  lectures and expressed as a veritable stream of philosophical consciousness that
is remarkably structured and analytically lucid.

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