Matter and Memory
by Bergson, HenriFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-05-07
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary
A monumental work by a Nobel Prize-winner, this 1896 work represents one of the great inquiries into perception and memory, movement and time, matter and mind. Bergson surveys these independent but related spheres, exploring the connection of mind and body to individual freedom of choice.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. vii |
| Of the Selection of Images for Conscious Presentation. What our Body Means and Does | p. 1 |
| Real action and virtual action | p. 1 |
| Representation | p. 8 |
| Realism and Idealism | p. 14 |
| The choice of images | p. 17 |
| Relation between representation and action | p. 35 |
| The image and reality | p. 45 |
| The image and affective sensation | p. 51 |
| Nature of affective sensation | p. 55 |
| The image, apart from sensation | p. 59 |
| Natural extension of images | p. 62 |
| Pure perception | p. 69 |
| Approach to the problem of matter | p. 73 |
| Memory | p. 81 |
| Of the Recognition of Images. Memory and Brain | p. 86 |
| The two forms of memory | p. 86 |
| Movements and Recollections | p. 105 |
| Recollections and movements | p. 118 |
| Realization of memories | p. 145 |
| Of the Survival of Images. Memory and Mind | p. 170 |
| Pure memory | p. 170 |
| What the present is | p. 176 |
| The unconscious | p. 181 |
| Existence | p. 189 |
| Relation of past and present | p. 191 |
| Memory and general ideas | p. 201 |
| The Association of Ideas | p. 212 |
| The plane of action and the plane of dream | p. 217 |
| The different planes of consciousness | p. 220 |
| Attention to life | p. 225 |
| Mental equilibrium | p. 227 |
| The Office of the body | p. 231 |
| The Delimiting and Fixing of Images. Perception and Matter: Soul and Body | p. 233 |
| The problem of dualism | p. 233 |
| Description of the Method | p. 238 |
| Indivisibility of movement | p. 246 |
| Real movement | p. 254 |
| Perception and matter | p. 259 |
| Duration and tension | p. 267 |
| Extensity and extension | p. 277 |
| Soul and body | p. 291 |
| Summary and Conclusion | p. 299 |
| Index | p. 333 |
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