A Critique of Business School Narratives and Protagonists: With Help from Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche

2014 ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
Rosa Slegers
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Business School ◽  
Henri Bergson

Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Germana
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Ralph Ellison ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Racial History ◽  
The Face

Ralph Ellison, Temporal Technologist examines Ralph Ellison’s body of work as an extended and ever-evolving expression of the author’s philosophy of temporality—a philosophy synthesized from the writings of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche that anticipates the work of Gilles Deleuze. Taking the view that time is a multiplicity of dynamic processes, rather than a static container for the events of our lives, and an integral force of becoming, rather than a linear groove in which events take place, Ellison articulates a theory of temporality and social change throughout his corpus that flies in the face of all forms of linear causality and historical determinism. Integral to this theory is Ellison’s observation that the social, cultural, and legal processes constitutive of racial formation are embedded in static temporalities reiterated by historians and sociologists. In other words, Ellison’s critique of US racial history is, at bottom, a matter of time. This book reveals how, in his fiction, criticism, and photography, Ellison reclaims technologies through which static time and linear history are formalized in order to reveal intensities implicit in the present that, if actualized, could help us achieve Nietzsche’s goal of acting un-historically. The result is a wholesale reinterpretation of Ellison’s oeuvre, as well as an extension of Ellison’s ideas about the dynamism of becoming and the open-endedness of the future. It, like Ellison’s texts, affirms the chaos of possibility lurking beneath the patterns of living we mistake for enduring certainties.

scholarly journals Immanenz lesen

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 396
Author(s):  
Alice Lagaay ◽  
Susanne Valerie Granzer
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Antonin Artaud

Der folgende Text eröffnete die Konferenz „Immanenz in zeitgenössischer Kunst und Philosophie“, die im Mai 2016 in Wien stattfand. Es handelt sich dabei um einen Reader mit Schlüsselaussagen zur Immanenz von Gilles Deleuze, Baruch de Spinoza, Giorgio Agamben, Henri Bergson, Francois Laruelle, Antonin Artaud und Friedrich Nietzsche. Dieser Reader wurde von Arno Böhler und Elisabeth Schäfer zusammengestellt. Susanne Valerie Granzer (S.V.G.) verarbeitete den Inhalt zu einer Kollage und trug Fragmente der Texte zum Beginn der Konferenz vor. Sie wurde dabei gelegentlich von Alice Lagaay (A.L.) unterbrochen, deren Einwürfe dazu dienten, Verbindungslinien zwischen den dichten theoretischen Texten und dem immanenten performativen Kontext zu ziehen, innerhalb dessen sie vorgetragen und aufgenommen wurden – d. h. dem Kontext der Konferenz. Der folgende Text bietet das Vorgetragene sowie die leichtherzigen – durchaus aber auch ernst gemeinten – Kommentare so dar, wie sie zur Aufführung kamen. Die Leser sind eingeladen, sich die Lebendigkeit (live-ness) des Ereignisses vorzustellen und sie nachzuerleben (re-enact), wobei ihre eigenen Kommentare, Fragen und Überlegungen die Lektüre unterbrechen.

Time, History, and Becoming in Invisible Man

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Germana
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Time History ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Eternal Recurrence ◽  
Invisible Man ◽  
Historical Themes

Chapter 1 locates the origins of Ralph Ellison’s philosophy of temporality in the ideas of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche, and reads Ellison’s debut novel Invisible Man in light of these observations. Anticipating the work of Gilles Deleuze, Ellison places Nietzsche’s concept of eternal recurrence into a Bergsonian context by combining Nietzsche’s arguments about history and immanence with Bergson’s claims about time and its fundamental creativity. The resulting philosophy prefigures Deleuze’s ideas about difference and repetition, or, the complex relationship between becoming and being. Because Invisible Man is the text where Ellison first fully articulates these concepts, this chapter treats the novel as a critical overture to Ellison’s corpus and the temporal and historical themes that recur throughout it. In the process, this chapter challenges long-held misconceptions about Ellison, including his debt to existentialism, his dedication to disorder, his commitment to surrealism, and his status as a modernist author.

scholarly journals Topos lasu w poezji Bolesława Leśmiana. Natura – człowiek – Bóg

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sławomir Sobieraj
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Human And Nature

The article presents interpretations of poems by Bolesław Leśmian, where a motif of the forest can be found. Initially, the forest in Leśmian's poetry appears as symbolism of spiritual states: melancholy, longing and sadness, which are the characteristic features of the Young Poland poetry, which was primarily patronized by Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer. Then, in the poems from Orchard, he announces the project of a union of human and nature and a turn towards the original instinctuality, the implementation of which the next volume will bring. Aa essential text is the poem Green Hour. This is the mystery of the existential tragedy of the human who lives on the border between the worlds: nature, human civilization and God. Here we can see the unveiling of the idea of realistic symbolism, which involves the search for mediation between different entities. However, he does not come to it because of the fact that the protagonist of the described events is under the influence of principio individuationis. Only the resignation from this principle - which occurs in the poems of Oak and Desire, and in other works of The Meadow - shows the space of the forest as a place of reconciliation between beings. In the interpretation, it was noticed that Leśmian's cosmogonic concepts were inspired by the philosophical thought of Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson.

Symbolic and philosophical similarities between Jan Kasprowicz’s and Janis Rainis’ poetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-224
Author(s):  
Paweł Wojciechowski
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ◽  
Blaise Pascal ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Friedrich Schiller ◽  
Arthur Schopenhauer

The text Symbolic and philosophical similarities between Jan Kasprowicz’s and Janis Rainis’ poetry presents the figure of Kasprowicz – a great Polish modernist, and Rainis – a Latvian poet and playwright, a man of the theater, author of numerous works for children and a recognized translator of the works of William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Gordon Byron, and Aleksander Pushkin. The analysis is directed toward the lyrical work of the Latvian and the Polish poet, emphasizing its symptomatic symbolism and philosophical influences (Blaise Pascal, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson) present in the phenomena of nature and love.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Germana
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Feedback Loops ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
The Future ◽  
Lower Frequencies

This introductory chapter traces the origins of Ralph Ellison’s philosophy of temporality, and illustrates how Ellison’s synthesis of the ideas of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche precedes, and in many ways prefigures, the work of Gilles Deleuze. It also demonstrates how Ellison’s Bergsonian critique of spatialized time—a coercive form of temporality that subtends progressive history—anticipates contemporary post-Deleuzian elucidations of the reciprocal relationship between temporality and subjectivity. By attuning his readers to intensities implicit in the present, or the dynamism inherent in what Bergson called duration, Ellison affirms the open-endedness of the future while critiquing all forms of determinism. And by treating race as a matter of time, Ellison shows how the feedback loops by which a racist society chaotically reproduces itself can be destabilized by troubling the coercive temporality with which they are linked “on the lower frequencies” of our immanent existence.

scholarly journals O tempo no meio da noite:1 uma análise do tempo de Benjy e de Quentin em O som e a fúria de William Faulkner

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (86) ◽  
pp. 253-265
Author(s):  
Alessandra Matias Querido
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Henri Bergson

A impressão de que o tempo flui no meio da noite é constante ao lermos O som e a fúria de William Faulkner, principalmente nos dois primeiros capítulos. O primeiro apresenta o ponto de vista de um deficiente mental, Benjy Compson, o qual não tem noção de tempo e narra passado e presente simultaneamente, o que leva o leitor a se sentir no escuro. O segundo apresenta a narrativa do ponto de vista de Quentin Compson, personagem que vive na escuridão do passado em um pessimismo que beira o niilismo. Com base nos conceitos de simultaneidade do filósofo Henri Bergson e de niilismo de Friedrich Nietzsche, discutiremos a questão do tempo para Faulkner.

Rhythms and Drives

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-114
Author(s):  
John Meechan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
The Body ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
The Core ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Core Components

In this article, I draw attention to some important points of intersection in the work of Henri Bergson and Friedrich Nietzsche. In particular I focus on the overlapping nature of their naturalisms. This proves enlightening for an overall appreciation of their respective philosophical projects but also allows those projects to be inscribed within a broader set of naturalistic traditions to which I think they contribute in interesting ways. I begin by assessing how Bergson's and Nietzsche's general problematics are shaped by the antinaturalistic character of their targets, more specifically the appeals to the immobile and the unconditional that they expose in their critical approaches. I move on to examine the core components of their naturalistic responses, highlighting how both thinkers extend introspective insights about the psyche and the body to make claims regarding broader activity patterns across nature and ground these new monistic continua in their concepts of rhythms (Bergson) and drives (Nietzsche). Lastly; I draw out three important consequences on which these moves jointly converge, with particular emphasis on the “quantal” nature of the ontologies they outline. Moving beyond the comparative perspective, I conclude by using these points to situate Bergson and Nietzsche among three different lineages of naturalism: metaphysical antireductionist, and Epicurean.

scholarly journals Reading Immanence

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 650
Author(s):  
Alice Lagaay ◽  
Susanne Valerie Granzer
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Antonin Artaud ◽  
The Arts

The following text opened the conference, “The Concept of Immanence in Philosophy and the Arts”, held in Vienna in May 2016. It is a reader consisting of key passages on immanence by Gilles Deleuze, Baruch de Spinoza, Giorgio Agamben, Henri Bergson, François Laruelle, Antonin Artaud and Friedrich Nietzsche. The reader was put together by Arno Böhler and Elisabeth Schäfer, and a collage of its content arranged by Susanne Valerie Granzer, who read out these text fragments at the start of the conference. Her reading was sporadically interrupted by Alice Lagaay, whose comments served to draw lines of connection between the dense theoretical texts and the performative immanent context in which they were being read and digested—the context of the conference. We present here the readings and their lighthearted—and at times deadly serious—commentary as performed. Readers are invited to imagine and re-enact the live-ness of this event, letting their own comments, questions and musings interrupt the proposed interruptions of reading.

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