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Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson covers a fascinating yet little known moment in history. At the turn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson and his sister, Mina Bergson (also known as Moina Mathers), were both living in Paris and working on seemingly very different but nonetheless complementary and even correlated approaches to questions about the nature of matter, spirit, and their interaction. He was a leading professor within the French academy, soon to become the most renowned philosopher in Europe. She was his estranged sister, already celebrated in her own right as a feminist and occultist performing on theatre stages around Paris while also leading one of the most important occult societies of that era, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. One was a respectable if controversial intellectual, the other was a notorious mystic-artist who, together with her husband and fellow-occultist Samuel MacGregor Mathers, have been described as the "neo-pagan power couple" of the Belle Époque. Neither Henri nor Mina left any record of their feelings and attitudes towards the work of the other, but their views on time, mysticism, spirit, and art converge on many fronts, even as they emerged from very different forms of cultural practice. In Vestiges of a Philosophy, John Ó Maoilearca examines this convergence of ideas and uses the Bergsons' strange correlation to tackle contemporary themes in new materialist philosophy, as well as the relationship between mysticism and philosophy.
"A highly original examination of the writings and practices of mystic and spiritualist Mina Bergson (1865-1925), in the light of her seemingly estranged brother, Henri Bergson's (1859-1941) ultra-realist ideas in the philosophies of time and of mind (the past really survives in memory). Her proposal that 'material science' was 'spiritualizing itself' just as 'occult science' was 'materializing itself' converges with her brother's attempt to overcome the duality of spirit and matter through a process metaphysics. Yet her approach comes from the tradition of Western Esotericism rather than Western Philosophy, a difference that will motivate an analysis of the ontology and methodology of the Bergson siblings. In doing so, it also engages with contemporary ideas in panpsychism, memory studies, the philosophy of time, as well as the relationship between spirit and matter within contemporary materialist thinking (Catherine Malabou, Karen Barad, and Jane Bennett). This study is then able to conceptualise for the first time the relations between a non-mechanistic view of matter as heterogenous, non-local, and creative, and Mina Bergson's mystical performances of a spiritualised materiality. In this process of cross-fertilisation, a number of new concepts emerge involving the meta-spiritual, hetero-continuity, the supernormal, and the hyperbolic while also helping to side-step the duality of an immaterial or paranormal spiritualism on the one side and a reductive materialism on the other"--
Excerpt from Vestiges of Civilization, or the Aetiology of History, Religious, Aesthetical, Political and Philosophical To the facility of comprehension, this course would add, moreover, the certainty of producing practical con viction. For, besides conciliating and co ordinating the several systems and suggestions relative to all that 1s sound in the actual aggiegate Cbf our knowledge, it would seive, at the same time, to account for the erroneous as well as the true, and thus secure, in the surest manner, their rejection or reception. I conclude, therefore, that a the ory, thus comprising all principles and comprised in all experience, may be made evident and irresistible to the plainest understanding. And it is, accordingly, by means of this plain, although peculiar procedure, that I dale hepe, in th 11s little wo1k, to give the largest generality of readers a conception, clear Dand consecutive, of both the natural laws of civilization and the essential conditions of science. My direct survey will, on this occasion, be confined to history proper, that is to say, the past and present state of mankind. But the reader, left aloft upon this vantage ground of all ages, and with the telescope of theory, face to face with the approaching future, will he resist the invita tion to look over and prophesy. 7 And will not his authority be the same experience, only infinitely more complete, Which grounds the daily previsions of practical life, and which, when perfect, gives infallibility to the p1edictions of all science. 7 For by no diffel ent mode of assui ance does the hypothesis of gravitation compel the assent and expecta tions of the civilized wo1l, d respecting the invisibly remote and indefinitely future. And Revelation itself, in fine, which, like the fabled bird of paradise, has been thought to never light upon the profane earth of experi ence, does it not rest its new prophecies upon a like appeal to the old'.l Showing that p1ecedent is a valid warrant in the judgment of the Divinity and the s111est passport of his p1omises to the popular acceptance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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