Bergson-Deleuze Encounters

<p><b>Explores the continuities and discontinuities in the work of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze.</b></p><p>Bergson-Deleuze Encounters sheds light on the intricate bond between French philosophers Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. It explores the major diffraction between the two thinkers conveys a sense of the irreducible originality of Deleuze's thought and offers a detailed account of Bergson's Copernican Revolution. In so doing it presents an explanation of thought and experience that contrasts with the dominant account of the phenomenological tradition. Valentine Moulard-Leonard argues that Bergson and Deleuze share a novel conception of the transcendental-which they call the Virtual-that marks a new era in thinking in which what is ultimately at stake is a new vision of time experience and materiality. The Virtual provides an indispensable alternative to the totalizing systems spawned by the traditional transcendent image of thought-be they systems of idealism scientific positivism nationalism racism sexism or dogmatism.</p>