{"id":37,"date":"2015-08-15T14:42:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T14:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/?p=37"},"modified":"2023-06-01T21:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T21:00:57","slug":"bergson-complexity-and-creative-emergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/bergson-complexity-and-creative-emergence\/","title":{"rendered":"Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bookcover_big-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"bookcover_big\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bookcover_big-192x300.jpg 192w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bookcover_big-768x1202.jpg 768w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bookcover_big-654x1024.jpg 654w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bookcover_big.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/>This is a book about evolution \u2013 from a post-Darwinian perspective. It recounts the core ideas of one of the great French philosophers, Henri Bergson (1859-1941), and his rediscovery and legacy in the poststructuralist critical philosophies of the 1960s onwards. It explores the confluences of these approaches with the foundational ideas of complexity theory and complex adaptive systems in environmental biology. The failings in the development of systems theory, many of which complex systems theory overcomes, are retold; with Bergson, this book proposes, some of the rest may be overcome too. It asserts that Bergson\u2019s ideas can further our understanding of evolution, and of complex systems, and aid the work of scientists working in the field of ecological complexity.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is no ordinary introduction to Henri Bergson. What David Kreps\u2019 excellent study gives us is Bergson,\u00a0<em>complexe<\/em>: first, because there is no simple way to take (or leave) Bergson\u2019s ideas \u2013 his thought of\u00a0<em>dur\u00e9e<\/em>,\u00a0<em>\u00e9lan<\/em>, and \u2018multiplicity\u2019 demands the most subtle and nuanced reading to give them their full justice; and second, because only by intertwining his ideas with the most up-to-date research in systems thinking, complexity theory, and poststructuralism can we begin to understand their absolute contemporaneity. Kreps\u2019 work does all this and more \u2013 it gives us the Bergson we need for today.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2013 John Mullarkey, author of\u00a0<em>Bergson and Philosophy<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cKreps\u2019 book is a thoroughly researched and well-written work that shows how Bergson\u2019s philosophy of evolution and time can also reinvigorate our ideas about complexity and organization in the natural and physical sciences.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2013 Stephen Crocker, author of\u00a0<em>Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"ref\">Kreps, D (2015) <em>Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence<\/em> Palgrave Macmillan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/us\/book\/9781137412195\">DOI: 10.1057\/9781137412201<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book about evolution \u2013 from a post-Darwinian perspective. 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