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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (27 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415237270
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415237277
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 16 x 2.4 cm
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'In the last five years, Keith Ansell-Pearson has emerged as a voice to be reckoned with. His writings are characterized by their honesty, their broad familiarity with related contemporary research and scholarship, their clarity and the tenacity of their argumentation. This latest book of his is indispensable reading for those interested in the work of Bergson and Deleuze and in the ontology of the virtual.' - Constantin V. Boundas, Trent University, Canada

'My favourite book of the past year was Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual' - Jack Chapman, The Observer

'A marvellous display of philosophical reflection that tackles the major issues with a rarely seen level of metaphysical insight and maturity of thought. It has raised the level of debate in this field by several notches.' - John Mullarkey, University of Sunderland

'Constitutes one of the most sustained engagements with the 'virtual' to date.' - Critical and Cultural Theory



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This lucid collection of essays the continental-analytic divide, bringing the virtual to centre stage and arguing its importance for re-thinking such central philosophical questions as time and life.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The book covers all the important aspects of Bergson's ideas, 2 Feb 2009
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Keith Ansell Pearson's "Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual" is an excellent introduction to a Bergsonism in the vein of Deleuze. By this I mean the way that Deleuze `saw' Bergson and his philosophy and what he called Bergsonism. This book emphasises the concept of the virtual which was first proposed by Bergson and more fully expressed in his "Matter and Memory". The virtual does not represent the possible since the possible is really what is possible given what is already known or rather in the sense of what is considered possible. The virtual is rather different, in Deleuze's understanding it means the creation of something completely new or novel through the creation of difference within the virtual and its actualisation. What is actual is different from what is virtual but arises from it through differentiation. In other words there is a difference in kind rather than of degree. Pearson strongly emphasises this concept to understand Bergson's philosophy of duration and multiplicity. Here multiplicity is what is observed once something has been actualised. Note that this emphasis is not necessarily the only way to understand Bergson, consider for example Mullarkey who states that this emphasis is too strong in regard to Bergson.

This book is not an easy read, a reader really needs to understand Bergson's ideas to some degree before attempting this text. And, to some degree a reading and re-reading of Deleuze's "Bergsonism" is a good idea, again not a simple undertaking. I recommend reading the three main Bergson texts: "Time and Free Will", "Matter and Memory" and "Creative Evolution" to start with followed by Deleuze's "Bergsonism". Once some kind of rapport has been developed in the reader both between Bergson's work and Deleuze's Bergsonism then this book is very valuable and readable especially the first six chapters. The seventh, the last chapter, is somewhat more elusive it requires an understanding of at least Deleuze's "Difference and Repetition" and possibly his "What is Philosophy" and "A Thousand Plateaus" otherwise one can get lost in the flowery and overpoetic expressions of Deleuze which can be completely obscure unless they are well understood.

Pearson's reading and understanding of Bergson and Deleuze is secondary to none and, apart from actually reading the philosophers texts themselves, it presents an excellent summary/interpretation of their work. Of value also is Pearson's analysis of how Bergson's work can be compared to other philosophers such as Popper, Heidegger, Hegel, Russell, Parmenides, Plotinus, Nietsche and Kant. In some instances, especially so with Kant, this relationship is complex when it comes to an understanding of the trascendental in Kant.

Pearson's book covers all of the important aspects including Bergson's ideas on evolution, time, memory and the implied expression of the one and the multiple. This last aspect especially is of great importance as Bergson does not really say what his view is but rather the idea of it is expressed as part of his way of writing on everything else. It is more implied and unfolded rather than stated. This is why Deleuze noted that the whole can never be explicated since then it would not be the whole since anything explicated has the tinge of spatiality about it, i.e. fixed, unmoving, static, dead.
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