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expression in philosophy
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French philosophy
Henri Bergson
philosophy and literature
philosophy and rhetoric
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- ISBN 9781399540452
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Henri Bergson was awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. However, literary writers do not consider him — and in fact never cite him — as one of their own. Bruno Clément reads Henri Bergson as a writer whose thought is inseparable from a tireless reflection on the question of his written expression.
Clément adds new insights into Bergson’s philosophical achievements through an analysis of the literary techniques he develops to express his theoretical insights. This close analysis of rhetorical technique analyses the effect on Bergson’s philosophical texts. Reading all of Bergson’s philosophical texts with the tools of literature, to systematically consider the theoretical consequences, he reveals that Bergson was not only a philosopher but a highly skilled and innovative writer.
Bruno Clément is Emeritus Professor of Literature, Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis and is former President of the International College of Philosophy (2004-2007). He is a well-known literary critic and theorist who studies the links between literature and philosophy. He has contributed to Journal of Beckett Studies and The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf. He is the author of many books in French including L’Œuvre sans qualités, rhétorique de Samuel Beckett, préface de Michel Deguy ("Logique de la figure"), 442 p., Paris, Seuil, 1994 (traduction en espagnol en cours); Le Lecteur et son modèle, coll. "Écriture", 272 p., P.U.F., 1999; La Tragédie classique, Seuil, "Mémo" 100 p., 1999 [ce livre a été traduit en roumain (2000) et en coréen (2002)]; L’Invention du commentaire, Augustin, Jacques Derrida, 175 p., P.U.F., 2000; Le Récit de la méthode, Seuil (collection Poétique »), 2005; La Voix verticale – essai sur la prosopopée, Belin (« L’extrême contemporain »); Henri Bergson, Prix nobel de littérature, Lagrasse, Verdier, 2021. Anthony Uhlmann is Distinguished Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Beckett and Poststructuralism (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov (Bloomsbury, 2011), J. M. Coetzee, Truth, Meaning, Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2020). He was the Managing Editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies (Edinburgh University Press). He has translated a number of essays from French into English, including, The Exhausted by Gilles Deleuze.
