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 ...

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.

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 ...

His brutal death, caught on video, shocked those who had grown accustomed to the illusion that barbarism had been relegated ...

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 ...

is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His books include Waking, Dreaming, Being (2015) and, co-authored with ...

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Researchers at Stanford University who study humour sought to give a plausible explanation as to why its so damn funny when ...