A major new translation of one of the an important philosophical work of the twentieth century, presenting Bergson’s masterwork to a new generation of readers

This new translation improves enormously on the quality of the previous translation, the only one available since 1911

Includes a host of additional new features, many translated for the first time including a comprehensive table of contents; a translation glossary; letters and reviews by William James, Georges Canguilhelm and Gilles Deleuze; full scholarly notes to each chapter

Responses by Bergson to many of these, and many of which have been translated for the first time.

Translated by Donald Landes, whose translation of Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge 2011, 2013) has already achieved classic status.