With the development of new technologies and the Internet, the notion of the virtual has grown increasingly important. In this lucid collection of essays, Pearson bridges the continental-analytic divide in philosophy, bringing the virtual to centre stage and arguing its importance for re-thinking such central philosophical questions as time and life. Drawing on philosophers from Bergson, Kant and Nietzsche to Proust, Russell, Dennett and Badiou, Pearson examines the limits of continuity, explores relativity, and offers a concept of creative evolution.
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'My favourite book of the past year was Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual' - Jack Chapman, The Observer
'A marvellous display of philosophical reflection that tackles the major issues with a rarely seen level of metaphysical insight and maturity of thought. It has raised the level of debate in this field by several notches.' - John Mullarkey, University of Sunderland
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Keith Ansell Pearson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.
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qua duration, virtual multiplicity, transcendental memory, ontological memory, isolable systems, discrete multiplicity, moving continuity, spatial habits, pure past, virtual whole, initial impulsion, germinal life, teleological judgement, continuous multiplicity, pure recollection, actual multiplicity, internal finality, passive syntheses, simple virtual, virtual can, vital impetus, renewed thinking, passive synthesis, virtual action, third synthesis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Creative Evolution by Henri Louis Bergson on 13 pages
- Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze on 11 pages
- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on 9 pages
- The Logic of Sense by Gilles Deleuze on 6 pages
- World of Parmenides by Karl Popper on page 44, page 65, and Back Matter
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- Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies) by Elizabeth Grosz in Back Matter
- A Companion to Nietzsche (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) by Keith Ansell Pearson in Front Matter
- The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely by Elizabeth Grosz in Back Matter
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