Bergson and History: Transforming the Modern Regime of Historicity

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: History, Presentism, Bergsonism
1. The Case of the London Cenotaph
	1. Historicism, Postmodernism, and the Absent Past
	2. Lutyens and the Cenotaph
	3. The Cenotaph as Metonymical Commemoration
	4. Rethinking the Past
	5. Conclusion
2. Historiography, Modernity, and the Acceleration of Time
	1. Heidegger on History and Historicity
		Heidegger’s Fundamental Ontology
		Historicity
		Historicity and Historiography
	2. The Birth of Modern History
		Koselleck’s Theory of Historical Times
		The Acceleration of History
	3. Crisis of the Modern Regime of Historicity
		“All that is solid melts into air”
		Presentism
	4. Conclusion
3. Bergson and the Crisis of the Modern Regime of Historicity
	1. Time and Space
	2. The Clock
	3. Bergson
	4. Bergsonisms
	5. Conclusion
4. A World Made Out of Time
	1. Intuition
	2. The Discovery of Pure Duration
		The Immediate Data of Consciousness
		The Self, Language, and Consciousness
		Freedom
	3. Duration as Philosophy of Life
		Metaphysics of Duration
		The Élan Vital
		Instinct, Intellect, and Intuition
	4. Conclusion
5. The Survival of the Past
	1. Historical Duration
	2. The Survival of the Past
		The “Existence” of the Past
		Bergson’s Theory of Memory
	3. Duration and Historical Epistemology
		Rethinking “the Event”
		Genealogy
	4. Conclusion
6. Historical Creation
	1. Duration as Heterogeneous Continuity
	2. Bergson’s Nonmodern Historicism
		Historicism
		Bergson’s Nonmodernity
	3. A Comparison with Hegel
		Hegel’s Philosophy of History
		Bergson’s Nonmodern Ontology
		Dialectics and Duration
	4. Conclusion
7. The Dream of Progress
	1. Progress and the Enlightenment
	2. The Open and Closed Society
		Closed Society
		Open Society
	3. A Pendulum Endowed with Memory
		Two Historical Laws
		Industrial Modernity and the Problem of War
	4. Conclusion
Conclusion: Assessing Presentism
	Ontology and Historical Time
	Epistemology and Methodology
	Historiography
Bibliography
Index