-Since the end of the last century,- Walter Benjamin wrote, -philosophy has made a series of attempts to lay hold of the -true- experience as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardized, denatured life of the civilized masses. It is customary to classify these efforts under the heading of a philosophy of life. Towering above this literature is Henri Bergson-s early monumental work Matter and Memory.-
Along with Husserl-s Ideas and Heidegger-s Being and Time, Bergson-s work represents one of the great twentieth-century investigations into perception and memory, movement and time, matter and mind. Arguably Bergson-s most significant book, Matter and Memory is essential to an understanding of his philosophy and its legacy.
This new edition includes an annotated bibliography prepared by Bruno Paradis.
