Building upon recent interest in Henri Bergson's social and political philosophy, this volume offers a series of fresh and novel perspectives on Bergson's writings through the lenses of critical philosophy of race and decolonial theory. Contributors place Bergson's work in conversation with theorists from Africa, the African Diaspora, and Latin America to examine Bergson's influence on literature, science studies, aesthetics, metaphysics, and social and political philosophy within these geopolitical contexts. The volume pays particular attention to both theoretical and practical forms of critical resistance work, including historical analyses of anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist movements that have engaged with Bergson's writings-for example, the Négritude movement, the Indigenismo movement, and the Peruvian Socialist Party. These historical and theoretical intersections provide a timely and innovative contribution to the existing scholarship on Bergson, and demonstrate the importance of his thought for contemporary social and political issues.

Foreword: The Hope for this Volume: Sympathy Leonard Lawlor Acknowledgments Introduction: Creative Extensions Andrea J. Pitts and Mark William Westmoreland Part I. Bergson on Colonialism, Social Groups, and the State 1. Decolonizing Bergson: The Temporal Schema of the Open and the Closed Alia Al-Saji 2. The Language of Closure: Homogeneity, Exclusion, and the State Martin Shuster 3. The Politics of Sympathy in Bergson's The Two Sources of Morality and Religion Melanie White Part II. Bergsonian Themes in the Négritude Movement 4. Bergson, Senghor, and the Philosophical Foundations of Negritude: Intellect, Intuition, and Knowledge Clevis Headley 5. The Spectacle of Belonging: Henri Bergson's Comic Negro and the (Im)possibility of Place in the Colonial Metropolis Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel Part III. Race, Revolution, and Bergsonism in Latin America 6. Racial Becomings: Evolution, Materialism, and Bergson in Spanish America Adriana Novoa 7. Bergsonism in Postrevolutionary Mexico: Antonio Caso's Theory of Aesthetic Intuition Andrea J. Pitts 8. Antagonism and Myth: Jose Carlos Mariategui's Revolutionary Bergsonism Jaime Hanneken Bibliography List of Contributors Index