Overview
- Recovers work by women in the history of philosophy, namely L. Susan Stebbing and Karin Costelloe-Stephen
- Examines the importance of responses to Bergsonism for the development of the history of analytic philosophy
- Traces the Vienna Circle’s project of overcoming metaphysics back to earlier criticisms of Bergsonian intuition
Part of the book series: History of Analytic Philosophy (History of Analytic Philosophy)
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During the first quarter of the twentieth century, the French philosopher Henri Bergson became an international celebrity, profoundly influencing contemporary intellectual and artistic currents. While Bergsonism was fashionable, L. Susan Stebbing, Bertrand Russell, Moritz Schlick, and Rudolf Carnap launched different critical attacks against some of Bergson’s views. This book examines this series of critical responses to Bergsonism early in the history of analytic philosophy. Analytic criticisms of Bergsonism were influenced by William James, who saw Bergson as an ‘anti-intellectualist’ ally of American Pragmatism, and Max Scheler, who saw him as a prophet of Lebensphilosophie. Some of the main analytic objections to Bergson are answered in the work of Karin Costelloe-Stephen. Analytic anti-Bergsonism accompanied the earlier refutations of idealism by Russell and Moore, and later influenced the Vienna Circle’s critique of metaphysics. It eventually contributed to the formation of the view that ‘analytic’ philosophy is divided from its ‘continental’ counterpart.
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“... Man kann auf alle Fälle feststellen, dass Vrahimis uns ein differenzierteres Bild des Entstehungshintergrunds des „Analytic-Continental Divide“ liefert, als dies oftmals in anderen Publikationen geschieht. Seine These, dass der Bergsonismus eine geeignete Kontrastfolie zu der sich etablierenden analytischen Tradition darstellte, ist der Sache nach überzeugend und im Einzelnen gut dokumentiert.” (Matthias Neuber, in: Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, Jg. 77, Heft 1, 2023)
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Book Title: Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy
Authors: Andreas Vrahimis
Series Title: History of Analytic Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80755-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80754-2Published: 07 July 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80757-3Published: 07 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80755-9Published: 06 July 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-5994
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 395
Topics: Analytic Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Continental Philosophy