The Crisis in Modernism: Bergson and the Vitalist Controversy
by Frederick Burwick
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The Modernist movement has been regarded as representing a crisis point in Western thought. This volume looks at that crisis in terms of its reinterpretation of ideas concerning vitalism: the animation of the universe, whether spiritual or based in physical energies, of the universe. Beginning with vitalism's historical background in the enlightenment and the nineteenth century, and moving through scientific, philosophical and literary disciplines, the contributors chart the progress of show more vitalism and its influence on modernist thought. The focal point is the work of Henri Bergson, whose part in this powerful reinterpretation had a considerable bearing on European and American intellectual life, and yet led to a vehement rejection of his work. A previously untranslated and little-known essay by Bakhtin will be of special interest in this stimulating collection, which includes original contributions from leading scholars in literature, the history of science, biology and philosophy, and comprises a wide-ranging reassessment of 'the perpetual crises of modernity'. show lessTags
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Frederick Burwick is a professor emeritus at UCLA. He is the author or editor of twenty-six books and his book Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination won the Barricelli Book of the Year Award. His research is dedicated to problems of perception, illusion, and delusion in literary representation and theatrical performance, and he has been show more named a Distinguished Scholar by both the British Academy (1992) and the Keats-Shelley Association (1998). show less
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