| Management number | 238683993 | Release Date | 2026/07/11 | List Price | US$4.00 | Model Number | 238683993 | ||
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<p><b>What if reality is not made of fixed things-but of living flow?</b></p><p>What if time is not what clocks measure?</p><p>What if consciousness is not a chain of separate moments, but a continuous becoming?</p><p>What if life itself is more creative, more fluid, and more alive than mechanism has ever been able to explain?</p><p>In <b>Bergson and the Flow of Reality</b>, Clayton Louis Turnage explores the life, thought, and enduring significance of <b>Henri Bergson</b>, the philosopher who challenged the modern tendency to freeze reality into static concepts and argued instead that the deepest truth of existence is <b>duration</b>, <b>creativity</b>, and <b>living movement</b>.</p><p>Bergson was not simply a philosopher of time. He was a philosopher of <b>becoming</b>. Against mechanistic materialism, rigid abstraction, and the reduction of life to measurable states, he proposed one of the most radical ideas in modern thought: </p><p><b>Reality is not a frozen structure. It is a creative flow.</b></p><p>This book takes readers deep into Bergson's extraordinary intellectual journey-from his critique of mechanistic explanation and spatialized time, to his revolutionary account of duration, memory, consciousness, intuition, creative evolution, freedom, and the living impulse of reality itself.</p><p>Inside this book, you will discover: </p><ul><li>Bergson's early life, education, and movement into philosophy</li><li>why he rejected static and mechanistic models of reality</li><li>the meaning of <b>duration</b> as lived time rather than measurable sequence</li><li>why consciousness is not a bundle of states but a continuous becoming</li><li>Bergson's critique of <b>intellect</b>, <b>analysis</b>, and rigid abstraction</li><li>the role of <b>intuition</b> in recovering living reality</li><li>the meaning of <b>Creative Evolution</b> and Bergson's critique of mechanism</li><li>the philosophical significance of <b>élan vital</b></li><li>the tension between <b>matter</b> and <b>life</b> as two tendencies within becoming</li><li>why Bergson believed <b>freedom</b> is real because becoming is real</li><li>how his influence shaped modernism, phenomenology, process thought, and later philosophy</li><li>why Bergson matters now in consciousness studies, anti-reductionism, and post-materialist metaphysics</li><li>how his ideas resonate with <b>Conscious Computational Cosmology (CCC)</b></li></ul><p>This is not just a book about a philosopher.</p><p>It is a book about one of the deepest questions modern thought can ask: </p><p><b>What if the universe is better understood as flow than as form?</b></p><p>If you are fascinated by consciousness, metaphys</p>
| Book format | Paperback |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | Political & Social Sciences |
| Publication date | May, 2026 |
| Pages | 96 |
| Subgenre | Mind & Body |
| Series title | The Architects of the Unknown: Scientists' Hidden Mystical Beliefs Revealed |
| Number in series | 10 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 6.00 x 0.20 x 9.00 in |
| Assembled product weight | 0.31 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Philosophy |
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