Bergson: 126 books

EXTRAIT: Le rôle de la France dans l’évolution de la philosophie moderne est bien net : la France a été la grande initiatrice. Ailleurs ont surgi également, sans doute, des philosophes de génie ; mais nulle part il n’y a eu, comme en France,...

Biographie de l'auteur Henri Bergson (1859 1911) a uni au plus haut point la création des concepts (la durée) et la critique des problèmes (l'espace), les exigences de la science et celles de l'écriture. la vocation théorique et la vocation pratique de la philosophie....

EXTRAIT: Que signifie le rire ? Qu’y a-t-il au fond du risible ? Que trouverait-on de commun entre une grimace de pitre, un jeu de mots, un quiproquo de vaudeville, une scène de fine comédie ? Quelle distillation nous donnera l’essence, toujours la même,...

EXTRAIT: Nous allons feindre pour un instant que nous ne connaissions rien des théories de la matière et des théories de l’esprit, rien des discussions sur la réalité ou l’idéalité du monde extérieur. Me voici donc en présence...

Matter and Memory presents an analysis of the classical philosophical problems concerning this relation. Within that frame the analysis of memory serves the purpose of clarifying the problem. Matter and Memory was written in reaction to the book The Maladies of Memory by Théodule Ribot, which appeared...

Bergson argues for free will by showing that the arguments against it come from a confusion of different conceptions of time. As opposed to physicists' idea of measurable time, life is perceived in human experience as a continuous and immeasurable flow rather than as a succession of marked-off states of consciousness.

The events leading up to the outbreak of World War I galvanized early-twentieth-century thinkers and intellectuals, prompting many to revisit the political and philosophical causes and implications of armed conflict. The Meaning of War is derived from the text of a talk that Henri Bergson, an important French philosopher, delivered to the president and key government officials in December 1914.

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Time and Free Will essay deals with the problem of free will, which Bergson contends is merely a common confusion among philosophers caused by an illegitimate translation of the unextended into...

“Fantômes de vivants” et “recherche psychique” è il testo del discorso tenuto nel 1913 da Bergson a Londra, presso la Società per la Ricerca Psichica (SPR) a cui aderirono scrittori, scienziati e intellettuali, tra cui Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marie Curie,...

«Uno stimolo per noi a cercare di comprendere la comicità nella sua psicogenesi si trova nell’affascinante e vitale volume di Bergson, Il riso» (Freud).

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Matter and Memory presents an analysis of the classical philosophical problems concerning this relation. Within that frame the analysis of memory serves the purpose of clarifying the problem....

Bergson deutet die gesamte Wirklichkeit aus der metaphysischen Einheit des Lebens und entwirft auf dieser Grundlage eine neue intuitive Erkenntnistheorie, Psychologie, Naturphilosophie, Ethik und Religionsphilosophie. Bergsons Einfluss reicht über die Philosophie hinaus auf die Existenzphilosophie...

Does spirit have a material basis? How does perception relate to memory and time? Does consciousness reflect the physical brain? Praised by William James and reputed to have influenced Proust, this towering 1911 work stands as one of Bergson’s major works, a milestone of 20th-century philosophy in which he declares memory to be a spiritual thing, not just a location of nerves in the brain.

Henri-Louis Bergson (* 18. Oktober 1859 in Paris; † 4. Januar 1941 ebenda) war ein französischer Philosoph und Nobelpreisträger für Literatur 1927. Er gilt neben Friedrich Nietzsche und Wilhelm Dilthey als bedeutendster Vertreter der Lebensphilosophie. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)