John Ó Maoilearca
Biographic Data
| ID | 461843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Ó Maoilearca |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Ó |
| FAMILY NAME | Maoilearca |
| SIGNATURE | MAOILEARCA J Ó |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kingston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson
This book is a highly original examination of the writings and practices of mystic and spiritualist Mina Bergson (1865-1925), in the light of her seemingly estranged brother, Henri Bergson's (1859-1941) ultra-realist ideas in the philosophies of time and of mind (the past really survives in memory). Her proposal that "material science" was "spiritualizing itself" just as "occult science" was "materializing itself" converges with her brother's att…
The Cinematic Bergson: From Virtual Image to Actual Gesture
Deleuze’s film-philosophy makes much of the notion of virtual images in Bergson’s Matter and Memory, but in doing so he transforms a psycho-meta-physical thesis into a (very) unBergsonian ontological one. In this essay, we will offer a corrective by exploring Bergson’s own explanation of the image as an “attitude of the body”—something that projects an actual, corporeal, and postural approach, not only to cinema, but also to philosophy. Indeed, j…
Ludic Handwaving
The Animal Line: On the Possibility of a “Laruellean” Non-Human Philosophy
This essay argues that a radical, non-standard, philosophical concept of the human is one that is consistently used both towards itself and others: it is an amplified concept that applies itself non-philosophically, that is, generically. Our purpose here, consequently, is to outline how Laruelle's work can be seen (or re-visioned) as performing something other than an inflation or deflation of either side of one fixed philosophical dyad (human/no…
Spirit in the Materialist World: On the Structure of Regard
This essay interrogates recent materialist monisms, be they based on contingency, eliminativism, or objective phenomenology, on account of their metaphilosophical ramifications. It is argued that certain dualities must be retained, at least nominally, in order to have any explanatory purchase and escape velocity from philosophical circularity (what Laruelle calls the “principle of sufficient philosophy”). Dyads such as “spirit” and “matter,” “man…
Bergson and the Art of Immanence: Painting, Photography, Film
An immanent turn in art historyThis collection of 16 essays brings 20th-century French philosopher Henri Bergson's work on immanence together with the latest ideas in art theory and the practice of immanent art as found in painting, photography and film
The Cinematic Bergson: From Virtual Image to Actual Gesture
Deleuze’s film-philosophy makes much of the notion of virtual images in Bergson’s Matter and Memory, but in doing so he transforms a psycho-meta-physical thesis into a (very) unBergsonian ontological one. In this essay, we will offer a corrective by exploring Bergson’s own explanation of the image as an “attitude of the body”—something that projects an actual, corporeal, and postural approach, not only to cinema, but also to philosophy. Indeed, j…
The Animal Line: On the Possibility of a “Laruellean” Non-Human Philosophy
This essay argues that a radical, non-standard, philosophical concept of the human is one that is consistently used both towards itself and others: it is an amplified concept that applies itself non-philosophically, that is, generically. Our purpose here, consequently, is to outline how Laruelle's work can be seen (or re-visioned) as performing something other than an inflation or deflation of either side of one fixed philosophical dyad (human/no…
Bergson and the Art of Immanence: Painting, Photography, Film
An immanent turn in art historyThis collection of 16 essays brings 20th-century French philosopher Henri Bergson's work on immanence together with the latest ideas in art theory and the practice of immanent art as found in painting, photography and film
The Animal Line: On the Possibility of a “Laruellean” Non-Human Philosophy
This essay argues that a radical, non-standard, philosophical concept of the human is one that is consistently used both towards itself and others: it is an amplified concept that applies itself non-philosophically, that is, generically. Our purpose here, consequently, is to outline how Laruelle's work can be seen (or re-visioned) as performing something other than an inflation or deflation of either side of one fixed philosophical dyad (human/no…
Spirit in the Materialist World: On the Structure of Regard
This essay interrogates recent materialist monisms, be they based on contingency, eliminativism, or objective phenomenology, on account of their metaphilosophical ramifications. It is argued that certain dualities must be retained, at least nominally, in order to have any explanatory purchase and escape velocity from philosophical circularity (what Laruelle calls the “principle of sufficient philosophy”). Dyads such as “spirit” and “matter,” “man…
Ludic Handwaving
The Cinematic Bergson: From Virtual Image to Actual Gesture
Deleuze’s film-philosophy makes much of the notion of virtual images in Bergson’s Matter and Memory, but in doing so he transforms a psycho-meta-physical thesis into a (very) unBergsonian ontological one. In this essay, we will offer a corrective by exploring Bergson’s own explanation of the image as an “attitude of the body”—something that projects an actual, corporeal, and postural approach, not only to cinema, but also to philosophy. Indeed, j…
Vestiges of a Philosophy: Matter, the Meta-Spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson
This book is a highly original examination of the writings and practices of mystic and spiritualist Mina Bergson (1865-1925), in the light of her seemingly estranged brother, Henri Bergson's (1859-1941) ultra-realist ideas in the philosophies of time and of mind (the past really survives in memory). Her proposal that "material science" was "spiritualizing itself" just as "occult science" was "materializing itself" converges with her brother's att…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Materialism (2 works) · Meaning (existential (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works)