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Index
Cover
Half title
Series Page
Title
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Contents
Introduction: The Resilience of Life
Chapter 1. On the Mechanical, Machinic, and Mechanistic
Descartes: The Animal Machine and the Human Spirit
Frühromantiks on the Mechanical State
The Natural-Selection Machine
The Multivalence of Mechanism and Comedy
Chapter 2. Contesting Vitalism
Nietzsche, Lukács, Deleuze
Life as Hidden Force
Vitalism and the Occult
Chapter 3. Bergson and the Racial Élan Vital
Bergson's Last Interventions
The Unique
Intuition and Absolute Knowledge
Immediacy and the Art of the Detour
Racial Memory
Noumenal Racism
Racial Modernism
Chapter 4. Négritude and the Poetics of Life
What Is Living and Dead in Senghor's Bergsonism?
Connecting Epistemology and Cultural Morphology
Césaire's Returns
Vital Difference
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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