Alexandre Lefebvre and Melanie White (eds.), "Bergson, Politics and Religion, and Politics" (Duke University Press, forthcoming in 2012)

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Acknowledgments

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Notes on Contributors

ALEXANDRE LEFEBVRE AND MELANIE WHITE

Introduction: Bergson, Politics, and Religion

PART I. Closed and Open

1. Frédéric Worms
   The Closed and the Open in the Two Sources of Morality and Religion: A Distinction That Changes Everything

2. SUZANNE GUERLAC
   Bergson, the Void, and the Politics of Life

3. JOHN MULLARKEY
   Equally Circular: Bergson and the Vague Inventions of Politics

4. CLAIRE COLEBROOK
   The Art of the Future

PART 2. Politics

5. PHILIPPE SOULEZ
   Bergson as Philosopher of War and Theorist of the Political

6. Hisashi Fujita
   Anarchy and Analogy: the Violence of Language in Bergson and Sorel

7. LEONARD LAWLOR
   Asceticism and Sexuality: “Cheating Nature” in Bergson’s Two Sources of Morality and Religion

8. Paulina Ochoa EspejO
   Creative Freedom: Henri Bergson and Democratic Theory

9. CARL POWER
   Bergson’s Critique of Practical Reason

10. ALEXANDRE LEFEBVRE
    Bergson and Human Rights

PART 3. Religion and Mysticism

11. Vladimir Jankélévitch
    Bergson and Judaism

12. KEITH ANSELL-PEARSON AND JIM URPETH
    Bergson and Nietzsche on Religion: Critique, Immanence, and Affirmation

13. Frédéric Keck
    Assurance and Confidence in The Two Sources of Morality and Religion: a Sociological Interpretation of the Distinction between Static Religion and Dynamic Religion

14. G. William Barnard
    Tuning Into Other Worlds: Henri Bergson and the Radio Reception Theory of Consciousness

15. PAOLA MARRATI
    James, Bergson, and an Open Universe