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Examining the revival of Bergsonism for phenomenology, leading scholars of both areas inaugurate a dialogue long overdue. By assessing phenomenology´s readings of Bergson and Bergsonian challenges to phenomenological methods, the essays in this volume explore anew the issues of central concern in contemporary continental philosophy.

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.R.Kelly PART I. READING BERGSON ANEW: A FOUNDATION FOR THE BERGSON/PHENOMENOLOGY DEBATE Intuition and Duration: An Introduction to Bergson´s ´Introduction to Metaphysics´; L.Lawlor Bergson on the Driven Force of Consciousness and Life; R.Bernet Bergson and Merleau-Ponty on Experience and Science; G.Gutting Man Falls Down: Art, Life, and Finitude in Bergson´s Essay on Laughter; S.Crocker PART II. INTERSECTIONS: THE BERGSON/PHENOMENOLOGY DEBATE Intuition and Freedom: Bergson, Husserl, and the Movement of Philosophy; T.Perri & H.Jacobs Life, Thinking and Phenomenology in the early Bergson; D.Zahavi A Criticism of Sartre´s Concept of Time; P.A.Y.Gunter Life as Vision: Bergson and the future of seeing differently; A.Al-Saji Bergson and Levinas; N.de Warren The Psycho-Physics of Phenomenology: Bergson and Henry; J.Mullarkey PART III. LIFEWORLD AND LIFE: THE FUNDAMENT OF THE BERGSON/PHENOMENOLOGY DEBATE? From the World of Life to the Life-world; P.Kerzsberg Consciousness or Life? Bergson between Phenomenology and Metaphysics; F.Worms The Failure of Bergsonism; R.Barbaras Index

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´Michael Kelly has put together an exceptionally strong collection of essays that seeks a dialogue between Bergson and phenomenology and that features work by both leading continental philosophers and phenomenologists and aspiring young scholars. Such a collection of essays is long overdue. The essays, which cover topics ranging from time, consciousness, and affect to life, evolution, and ethics, are rich and varied. The collection represents a most welcome contribution to the emerging new literature on Bergson and succeeds in showing that Bergson is refreshingly contemporary. Highly recommended. ´ - Keith Ansell-Pearson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick

´The virtue of Michael R. Kelly´s volume is not only to have reconstructed debates between Bergson and classical phenomenologists but, more importantly, to propose a Bergsonian contribution to such central phenomenological topics as subjectivity, time, embodiment, nothingness, life, and freedom.´ - Alexandre Lefebvre, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

´...the publication of this book is so welcome...´ -Akos Krassoy, Tijdschrift voor Filosofie

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