Includes bibliographical references and index.

The closed and the open in the two sources of morality and religion : a distinction that changes everything / Frédéric Worms -- Bergson, the void, and the politics of life / Suzanne Guerlac -- Equally circular : Bergson and the vague inventions of politics / John Mullarkey -- The art of the future / Claire Colebrook -- Bergson as philosopher of war and theorist of the political / Philippe Soulez -- Anarchy and analogy : the violence of language in Bergson and Sorel / Hisashi Fujita -- Asceticism and sexuality : "cheating nature" in Bergson's The two sources of morality and religion / Leonard Lawlor -- Creative freedom : Henri Bergson and democratic theory / Paulina Ochoa Espejo -- Bergson's critique of practical reason / Carl Power -- Bergson and human rights / Alexandre Lefebvre -- Bergson and Judaism / Vladimir Jankélévitch-- Bergson and Nietzsche on religion : critique, immanence, and affirmation / Keith Ansell-Pearson and Jim Urpeth -- Assurance and confidence in the two sources of morality and religion: a sociological interpretation of the distinction between static religion and dynamic religion / Frédéric Keck -- Tuning into other worlds : Henri Bergson and the radio reception theory of consciousness / G. William Barnard -- James, Bergson, and an open universe / Paola Marrati.