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鈥淪ince the end of the last century,鈥� Walter Benjamin wrote, 鈥減hilosophy has made a series of attempts to lay hold of the 鈥榯rue鈥� experience as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardized, denatured life of the civilized masses. It is customary to classify these efforts under the heading of a philosophy of life. Towering above this literature is Henri Bergson鈥檚 early monumental work Matter and Memory.鈥�

Along with Husserl鈥檚 Ideas and Heidegger鈥檚 Being and Time, Bergson鈥檚 work represents one of the great twentieth-century investigations into perception and memory, movement and time, matter and mind. Arguably Bergson鈥檚 most significant book, Matter and Memory is essential to an understanding of his philosophy and its legacy.

This new edition includes an annotated bibliography prepared by Bruno Paradis.