Bergson as Writer

Literature in Philosophy

Bruno Clement, Anthony Uhlmann

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Edinburgh University Press
09 April 2025

Literary theory; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Social & political philosophy

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 Clement reads Henri Bergson as a writer whose thought is inseparable from a tireless reflection on the question of his written expression.

Clement 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.

By: Bruno Clement
Translated by: Anthony Uhlmann
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399540445
ISBN 10: 1399540440
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 09 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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'OEuvre 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.

Reviews for Bergson as Writer: Literature in Philosophy

Focusing on Bergson's concept of expression, Clément dispels the idea that he was a littérateur whose belletristics compensated for defects in philosophy. This extraordinarily lucid and innovative book restores the genius of Bergson seen as a poietic inventor not only of his discourse but also of his language.--Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.