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Henri Bergson


Born
in Paris, France
October 18, 1859

Died
January 04, 1941

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Genre
Philosophy, Psychology, Science

Influences
Immanuel Kant, William James, Charles Darwin, Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, ...more


Popular and accessible works of French philosopher and writer Henri Louis Bergson include Creative Evolution (1907) and The Creative Mind (1934) and largely concern the importance of intuition as a means of attaining knowledge and the élan vital present in all living things; he won the Nobel Prize of 1927 for literature.

Although international fame and influence of this late 19th century-early 20th century man reached heights like cult during his lifetime, after the Second World War, his influence decreased notably. Whereas such thinkers as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean Paul Sartre, and Lévinas explicitly acknowledged his influence on their thought, Bergsonism of Gilles Deleuze in 1966 marked the reawakening of interest. Deleuze recog ...more

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Matter and Memory
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Laughter: An Essay on the M...
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Creative Evolution
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Time and Free Will
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An Introduction to Metaphysics
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The Creative Mind
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The Two Sources of Morality...
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Mind-Energy (Henri Bergson ...
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Dreams
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Duration and Simultaneity: ...
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“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
― Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory
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“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
― Henri Bergson
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“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
― Henri Bergson
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