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Bergson, Henri
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Bergson, Henri (1859–1941), French philosopher. Believing that the way to reality was by intuition, Bergson aimed at a radical criticism of all forms of intellectualism. He held that all intellectualist conceptions of reality rest on spatial patterns akin to the diagrams and clock-time of the physicist, which distort the truth and must be abandoned for a new view of time. Reality is evolutionary and progressive, and at the root of moral action lies a ‘life force’ (
élan vital). His ideas appealed to many religious thinkers (notably RC
Modernists) who were dissatisfied with the dominating position which traditional theology assigns to the human intellect.
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Unamuno and Bergson: notes on a shared methodology.(Miguel de Unamuno, Henri Bergson)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Both Henri Bergson and Miguel de Unamuno shared a common...reprsente clairement que le discontinu.' (HENRI BERGSON) (2) Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864-1936) and Henri Bergson (1859-1941) were more than merely...
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Liang Shuming and Henri Bergson on intuition: cultural context and the evolution of terms.
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...of the concept of intuition in Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and its Chinese...does "intuition" mean to both Bergson and Liang Shuming? Second, what...has borne the apparent imprint of Henri Bergson's Vitalism. Bergson's concept...
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Bergson, Henri Correspondances.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 3/22/2003; ; 438 words
; Henri Bergson. Paris: PUF, 2002. 1710 pp. Euro75.00. Bergson. Philippe Soulez and Frederic Worms. Reedition. Paris: PUF Quadrige, 2002. 394 pp. Euro15.00. He was the grandson of Polish Jews, he claimed he owed everything to France...
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This cosmic pawnshop we call life: Nathaniel West, Bergson, capitalism and schizophrenia. (philosopher Henri Bergson)
Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction; 6/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...attempting something much more complex. He aimed in these two texts to use a particular theory of comedy--derived from Henri Bergson--in order to make a particularly Bergsonian criticism about what passes for life in a dehumanized, mechanized...
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Bergson, Henri.(Correspondances)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 6/22/2003; ; 358 words
; Correspondances. Henri Bergson. Texts published and annotated by Andre Robinet, with the collaboration of Nelly Bruyere, Brigitte Sitbon-Peillon, Suzanne...
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HENRI BERGSON'S AN INTRODUCTION TO METAPHYSICS.(poem)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 1/1/1999; ; 448 words
; Now to conclude in terms of a bankless river and the orange flowers grown there, in terms of a few colors lying in the sun brushing sand off their calves. Our life is describable as Zeno's arrow let loose in Paris, as shadows chased through a Paris whose blue lamps flicker once, then glow. Such a
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Henri Bergson's An Introduction to Metaphysics
Magazine article from: Poetry; 1/1/1999; ; 311 words
; Now to conclude in terms of a bankless river and the orange flowers grown there, in terms of a few colors lying in the sun brushing sand off their calves. Our life is describable as Zeno's arrow let loose in Paris, as shadows chased through a Paris whose blue lamps flicker once, then glow. Such a
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Une rencontre philosophique: Bergson in Russie (1903-1917)
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...s star of the Eveninglands, Henri Bergson. From books and journals by the...philosophy. But any recall of Bergson's metaphysics must henceforth...adjunct to P.A.Y. Gunter's Henri Bergson: A Bibliography (Bowling Green...
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The New Bergson.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; The New Bergson. Ed. by JOHN MULLARKEY. (Angelaki Humanities...pounds sterling]). In the excellent biography of Henri Bergson published in 1997 (Philippe Soulez and Frederic Worms, Bergson: Biographie (Paris: Flammarion)), Soulez...
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The case of the falling man: Bergson and Chaos Theory.
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...shift. One such text is Henri Bergson's famous essay Le Rire...the world. Yet, in Bergson's own time science...while Hendrik Lorentz and Henri Poincare laid the foundations...remain unnoticed by Bergson, who himself started...
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Henri Bergson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Henri Bergson The French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941) opposed mechanism and determinism and vigorously...liberty. Bergsonian thought is often referred to as vitalism. Henri Bergson was born on Oct. 18, 1859, in Paris to a Jewish family...
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Bergson, Henri Louis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Bergson, Henri Louis ( b . Paris, France, 18 October 1859; d . Paris, 4 January 1941) philosophy . Henri Bergson was the son of a Polish musician and composer, Michael Bergson, and...
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Bergson, Henri (1859-1941)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Bergson, Henri (1859-1941) Famous French philosopher whose concepts...MacGregor Mathers, who had moved to Paris in 1891. Bergson died January 4, 1941, in Paris. Sources: Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution. New York: Modern Library...
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Bergson, Henri
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Bergson, Henri (1859–1941) French philosopher of evolution. He saw existence...intellect, whereas the life-force is perceived through intuition. Bergson received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1927. His works include Time...
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Ey, Henri (1900-1977)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...senior psychiatrist under Professor Henri Claude, met the first French psychoanalysts...atrice (Creative Evolution) by Henri Bergson, who critiqued Freud's first publications...Psychiatric Hospital (today the Henri Ey Hospital), where he remained...
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