Duration and Simultaneity: Bergson and the by Henri Bergson & Leon Jacobson; G+

Description: Good+; Softcover; First Printing; Number line, �1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2"; Light wear to the covers; Ink stamp to the top and bottom textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 0.8 lbs; Gold and white covers with title in dark blue lettering; 1999, Clinamen Press; 224 pages; "Duration and Simultaneity: Bergson and the Einsteinian Universe (Philosophy of Science)," by Henri Bergson & Leon Jacobson. Seller Background: We are a small, online bookseller based out of Bellingham, WA specializing in modern rare and out-of-print titles. We have been active in the book trade for over ten years and have been an active Ebay member since 2002. All of our books are carefully cleaned and restored to the best possible condition prior to being offered for sale. Our books are graded conservatively with ex-library books never graded above "Good" and used books very rarely graded above "Very Good". Domestic Shipping Notes: Orders placed with "Standard Shipping" ship by USPS Media Mail. Orders placed with "Expedited Shipping" ship by USPS Priority Mail. Especially high-value orders may ship by UPS. International Shipping Notes: International orders ship exclusively through the Ebay Global Shipping program. The shipping rates for this program are calculated by Ebay and paid to Ebays shipping company (Pitney Bowes). Shipments through the Ebay Global Shipping program are fully trackable with non-delivery and damage claims handled direclty by Ebay customer service. Return Policy: We accept returns for any reason as long as we are notified of your intent to return within two weeks of the date of receipt. The buyer is responsible for return shipping on all discretionary returns. If the return is due to an error in our description or from damage caused by the shipping carrier we will reimburse all shipping costs paid by the buyer. Book Info: Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941) introduced new life to French philosophy, examining the non-mathematical sciences from a philosophical stance. He introduced the concept of non-linear time to philosophical investigations of change. Forthis and other work he received the Nobel Prize in 1924. Duration and Simultaneity deals with one of the great Bergsonian themes, time. A central contention is that science and philosophy alike systematically misrepresent the nature of time. Bergson suggests that the traditional association between the model of space and time is incoherent. Unlike space, time is not measurable by objective standard. This contention is tried out here against the major movement in physics of the day; relativity. Tracing the development of the theory from special to general relativity, Bergson finds that a fundamental requirement of the theory is an impossibility - the assumption that the experiences of two observers moving at different speeds within two different physical systems might be thought of as simultaneous. This is to ignore the limits of possible experience. As with much of Bergsons thought the book has had a complex reception in both the world of physics and philosophy. This edition is supplemented by a number of extracts bearing on the debate of Bergsons critique of relativity, including a previously untranslated interview between Einstein and Bergson. This edition enhances the 1922 edition with an introduction by Robin Durie which appraises the books early reception and examines the currency of Bergsons thought on time for the philosophy of science today. Durie lectures in Philosophy at Staffordshire University, is on the board of the Forum for European Philosophy and is the Secretary of the British Society of Phenomenology. He is also the author of Face to Face. -- Customer Review -- This book is simply brilliant, and one of the most insightful ever written. It takes on the biggest scientific theory of our time, relativity, convincingly showing that relativity is merely a mathematical tool with no real physical significance; that the "multiple times" of relativity are mathematical fictions. Bergson was not a "crack-pot"; he was a very well-respected philosopher and psychologist contemporaneous with Einstein. So this is not crack-pottish quackery, nor does it read as such; it is a very detailed, thorough explanation by a master philosopher. -- Customer Review -- I bought the library of liberal arts edition of this work.Same translation but different forward.I had dismissed Bergson because like the other reviewers I had thought that Bergson rejected Einstein. Actually the rejection is of Lorentzian formulation of the Twin Paradox. Inventory #: SKU-1436AC04104143

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