Not dumbed down, but not written for specialists trying to duel footnotes in a bunker.

A lucid guide to Bergson that takes his philosophy seriously without turning it into a museum piece. Guerlac focuses on time, duration, memory, intuition, movement, and creativity — the core Bergsonian insistence that lived time is not the same thing as clock time, and that thought goes wrong when it treats life as if it were made of static units. 

What makes it worthwhile is that Bergson has become newly legible to readers interested in process, perception, affect, modernism, Deleuze, and philosophies of movement. It has genuine crossover use for readers who want a structured entry point into one of the stranger and more fertile lines in twentieth-century thought.

Cornell paperback, first paperback printing, 2006.