Mysticism and the Foundation of the Open Society: Bergsonian Politics

Marrati, Paola

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“…The struggle between these forms of nature makes alarmingly literal the "real duration" that "gnaws on things, and leaves on them the mark of its tooth" (Bergson, 1911b, p. 46). In Marrati's (2006) discussion of Bergson's evolutionary perspective, "Nutrition, before being a need to be satisfied, is a problem to be solved " (p. 597, cited Ansell-Pearson, 2018, p. 112). Tao solves this problem without hesitation, whereas the breeding of the companion dogs, their unnatural "instinct," revolts against feral necessity.…”

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Animals’ Mobilities in Popular Fiction: Time, Duration, and Desire in Sheila Burnford’s The Incredible Journey

Howell

2024

Soc. Animals

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In Sheila Burnford’s 1961 novel The Incredible Journey, three domestic animals undertake an arduous trek through the forests of northern Ontario to be reunited with their owners and family. As an example of “homing instinct” stories, The Incredible Journey has been influential, notably as a result of the 1963 Disney film. The genre is easily dismissed as sentimentally anthropomorphic, but this paper treats Burnford’s novel as a sophisticated treatment of animals’ mobilities in terms of literary animal studies. Drawing on the philosophy of Henri Bergson, The Incredible Journey is presented as an adventure in time rather than in space, contrasting the human perspective of maps and miles with the Bergsonian concept of duration, the real experience of the passage of time, and with related themes of free will, instinct, and desire. This paper concludes that Burnford offers a less anthropocentric perspective on animals’ mobility.

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Animals’ Mobilities in Popular Fiction: Time, Duration, and Desire in Sheila Burnford’s The Incredible Journey

Howell

2024

Soc. Animals

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“… Cf. Marrati , 595. As Marrati puts the point: “We must not be mistaken, however: Bergson by no means affirms that social and political forms of organization are biologically determined or determinable.…”

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Humor as an Optics: Bergson and the Ethics of Humor

Shuster¹

2013

Hypatia

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Although the ethics of humor is a relatively new field, it already seems to have achieved a consensus about ethics in general. In this paper, I implicitly (1) question the view of ethics that stands behind many discussions in the ethics of humor; I do this by explicitly (2) focusing on what has been a chief preoccupation in the ethics of humor: the evaluation of humor. Does the immoral content of a joke make it more or less humorous? Specifically, I analyze whether a sexist joke is more humorous because of its sexism. Contra recent trends in the ethics of humor, I answer this question affirmatively. To this end, the paper presents a detailed and novel reading of Bergson's philosophy of humor, which I argue connects most easily and significantly to the alternate view of ethics I have in mind.

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Interpreting Bergson

2019

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Mysticism and the Foundation of the Open Society: Bergsonian Politics

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Animals’ Mobilities in Popular Fiction: Time, Duration, and Desire in Sheila Burnford’s The Incredible Journey

Animals’ Mobilities in Popular Fiction: Time, Duration, and Desire in Sheila Burnford’s The Incredible Journey

Humor as an Optics: Bergson and the Ethics of Humor

Interpreting Bergson

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