Difference and Repetition
by Gilles Deleuze | 
A Thousand Plateaus
by Gilles Deleuze | 
Spinoza
by Gilles Deleuze | 
Plato at the Googleplex
by Rebecca Goldstein | 
The World as Will and Idea
by Arthur Schopenhauer | 
Philosophy For Dummies
by Tom Morris | 
Modes of Thought
by Alfred North Whitehead | 
Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers
by Philip Stokes | 
An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
by David Hume | 
Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings
by Ludwig Wittgenstein | 
The Last Word
by Thomas Nagel | 
Matter and Memory
by Henri Bergson | 
Spinoza
by Roger Scruton | 
The Heart of Philosophy
by Jacob Needleman | 
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy
by Roger Scruton | 
Philosophy of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
by Richard H. Popkin | 
The Little Book Of Philosophy
by Andre Comte-Sponville | 
Nietzsche and Philosophy
by Gilles Deleuze | 
The Notebooks of Simone Weil
by Simone Weil | 
Karma Yoga
by Swami Vivekananda |
In this analysis of one major philosopher by another, Gilles Deleuze identifies three pivotal concepts - duration, memory, and 'lan vital - that are found throughout Bergson's writings and shows the relevance of Bergson's work to contemporary philosophical debates. He interprets and integrates these themes into a single philosophical program, arguing that Bergson's philosophical intentions are methodological. They are more than a polemic against the limitations of science and common sense, particularly in Bergson's elaboration of the explanatory powers of the notion of duration - thinking in terms of time rather than space.