目录 |
| List of Illustrations | viii |
| Abbreviations of Bergson's Works | ix |
1. | Introduction | 1 |
| On Bergson's life | 3 |
| On Bergson's legacy | 7 |
| On creative emergence | 10 |
2. | Bergson's Core Ideas | 16 |
| On method | 16 |
| On the intuition philosophique | 18 |
| On rationality | 19 |
| On intuition | 22 |
| On Duree Reelle | 25 |
| On the intensity of conscious states | 26 |
| On number | 30 |
| On the paradoxes of the Eleatics | 30 |
| On sheep, abstract number and space | 31 |
| On memory and perception | 34 |
| On realism and idealism | 36 |
| On perception, memory and action | 39 |
| On indivisibility and movement | 46 |
| On the Elan Vital | 50 |
| Definition of terms | 50 |
| On Creative Evolution | 56 |
| A universe on the model of consciousness | 67 |
3. | Bergson Redux | 85 |
| Eclipse | 85 |
| The 1960s | 88 |
| On Deleuze | 89 |
| On the poststructuralist turn | 92 |
| On the linguistic turn | 93 |
| On structuralism | 95 |
| On poststructuralism | 96 |
| On Bergsonian poststructuralism | 98 |
| Contemporary resurgence | 100 |
4. | Systems Theory Grows Up | 110 |
| On Genealogy | 111 |
| Concerning metaphilosophy and root metaphors | 113 |
| Considering the discursive formations of ecosystems and systems theory | 115 |
| Positivity | 118 |
| Epistemologisation | 130 |
| Scientificity | 137 |
| Scientific revolution | 143 |
5. | Duree Complexe | 151 |
| On duree | 155 |
| On Relativity, and its challengers from the cosmic and the microscopic | 160 |
| On the speed of light, and Einstein's great debate with Bergson | 162 |
| On Bergson and quantum theory | 165 |
| On consciousness, durational succession, and epiphenomenalism | 171 |
| On complexity | 178 |
| On second-wave cybernetics | 179 |
| On dissipative structures, and emergence | 181 |
| On the notion of attractors | 183 |
| On organisms and nonequilibrium | 185 |
| On nonequilibrium thermodynamics | 188 |
| On autocatalysis and phase transitions | 190 |
| On attractors in dynamic networks | 192 |
| On self-organisation | 195 |
| On bifurcation points, deconstruction, and the shortest description | 196 |
| On explosive emergence and the elan vital | 200 |
| On ecological complexity | 202 |
6. | Creative Emergence | 211 |
| Bergson's core message and legacy | 211 |
| Bergsonian complex evolutionism | 213 |
| Poststructuralist complexity | 214 |
| Bergsonian poststructuralist complex evolutionism | 215 |
| Our place in this universe | 216 |
| So what of the future? | 226 |
| Glossary | 234 |
| Index | 235 |