Matter and Memory and recounted with dramatic flair

and recounted with dramatic flair by a born storyteller

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overcoming rebellious spirits

twelfth night

The notion that reason rules the world

Matter and Memory and recounted with dramatic flairA monumental work by an important modern philosopher, Matter and Memory (1896) represents one of the great inquiries into perception and memory, movement and time, matter and mind. Nobel Prizewinner Henri Bergson surveys these independent but related spheres, exploring the connection of mind and body to individual freedom of choice. Bergson's efforts to reconcile the facts of biology to a theory of consciousness offered a challenge to the mechanistic