Henri Bergson (1859–1941) was a towering figure in the intellectual world of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Paris in 1859, Bergson became one of the most celebrated philosophers of ...

Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that ...

While Henri Bergson did not point his intellectual abilities toward politics, lesser men who were unscrupulous commandeered his ideas to promote their own collectivist ideologies.

Human development is not determined by the mechanics of Darwinian evolution, wrote the French philosopher Henri Bergson, but by our own creative impulses. The advent of farming, industrial ...

At that time, Kook lived for a period in Switzerland and later in England. In both places, the ideas of Bergson and other philosophers of life were well known and extremely popular, and it is ...

The term implied that the women who attended Bergson’s lectures could only be mondaines—society women—who wanted to be seen in the presence of a fashionable philosopher. Bergson, for his part, did not ...

Macallan, Brian Claude 2021. Freedom as a Centralizing Motif in the Work of Henri Bergson. Process Studies, Vol. 50, Issue. 1, p. 67. Rein Retana, Paula 2023. La ...