Henri Bergson
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Henri Bergson was a French-Jewish philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, whose third major work, "Creative Evolution", provided an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution. First published in French in 1907 and translated into English in 1911, the work proposes an orthogenesis or progressive theory of evolution in which Bergson argues that organisms innately evolve towards an end goal. Bergson focuses on four key steps...
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"Time and Free Will" is Henri Bergson's doctoral thesis, which was first published in French in 1889. In the work French philosopher Bergson introduces us to his theory of duration, a response to Immanuel Kant's ideas regarding free will as something only possible outside of time and space. Bergson argues that the traditional concept of free will is merely confusion among philosophers caused by an illegitimate translation of the unextended into the...
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In this great philosophical essay, Henri Bergson explores why people laugh and what laughter means. Written at the turn of the twentieth century, Laughter explores what it is in language that makes a joke funny and what it is in us that makes us laugh. One of the functions of humor, according to Bergson, is to help us retain our humanity during an age of mechanization. Like other philosophers, novelists, poets, and humorists of his era, Bergson was...
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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.
5) Dreams
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Before the dawn of history, mankind was engaged in the study of dreaming. The wise man among the ancients was preeminently the interpreter of dreams. The ability to interpret successfully or plausibly was the quickest road to royal favor, as Joseph and Daniel found it to be; failure to give satisfaction in this respect led to banishment from court or death. When a scholar laboriously translates a cuneiform tablet dug up from a Babylonian mound, where...
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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.
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Revisado en profundidad y atención, lo que hace Bergson es una cuidadosa operación de desmontaje de las tesis tradicionales que han dado una cierta fisonomía al decurso del pensamiento filosófico en vista de liberar de todo condicionamiento trascendente e incluso idealista a las soluciones de determinados problemas clásicos de esta disciplina. Es por ello que hay una inmanencia en el proceso del dormir, pues en el proceso de transformación de...
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The final published book by Nobel Prize-winning author and philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941), La pensée et le mouvant (translated here as The Creative Mind), is a masterly autobiography of his philosophical method. Through essays and lectures written between 1903 and 1923, Bergson retraces how and why he became a philosopher, and crafts a fascinating critique of philosophy itself. Until it leaves its false paths, he demonstrates, philosophy will...
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Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941) was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.
He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented." In 1930, France...
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Bergson incorporated the best of contemporary thinking in all his works. These thinkers included A. Krauss, Delage, Freud, and W. Robert. Bergson talks about how our sensory organs (eyes) are involved in dreams so that we think we perceive something but when we open our eyes it vanishes. This book is not a dictionary of dreams but a stunning example of how dreams work and function. Henri-Louis Bergson was a major French philosopher, influential in...
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This is a partial translation by Wade Baskin of the original French work Ecrits et Paroles (a 3 volume set, 665 pages) published between 1957 and 1959 by Henri Bergson. It includes the translation from Bergson's introduction to a French ed. of De rerum natura, by Lucretius published in 1884 under the title: Extraits de Lucre`ce.
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Extrait : "Le point de départ de notre travail a été l'analyse qu'on trouvera dans le troisième chapitre de ce livre. Nous montrons dans ce chapitre, sur l'exemple précis du souvenir, que le même phénomène de l'esprit intéresse en même temps une multitude de plans de conscience différents qui marquent tous les intermédiaires entre le rêve et l'action (...)"
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Extrait : "Nous nous exprimons nécessairement par des mots, et nous pensons le plus souvent dans l'espace. En d'autres termes, le langage exige que nous établissions entre nos idées les mêmes distinctions nettes et précises, la même discontinuité qu'entre les objets matériels. Cette assimilation est utile dans la vie pratique, et nécessaire dans la plupart des sciences."
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"The Meaning of the War - Life and Matter in Conflict" is a 1915 work within which Henri Bergson explores Germany's policy of 'might is right' as practised by Bismarck, the Prussian empire, and Germany in its long and bloody history of aggression against its neighbours. Contents include: "Life Of Bergson", "Introduction", "Life And Matter At War", and "The Force Which Wastes And That Which Does Not Waste".
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il y a infiniment plus, dans une conscience humaine, que dans le cerveau correspondant. Ainsi, la conscience est incontestablement accrochée à un cerveau mais il ne résulte nullement de là que le cerveau dessine tout le détail de la conscience, ni que la conscience soit une fonction du cerveau. Tout ce que l'observation, l'expérience, et par conséquent la science nous permettent d'affirmer, c'est l'existence d'une certaine relation entre le...
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The basic principles that Bergson articulates, especially his way of thinking about reality as a dynamic process and his view of human beings as creative and evolving, should be helpful to anyone who seeks to go beyond simply dealing with the practical demands of daily life and consider the nature of things. Of special importance is Bergson's claim that it is both possible and necessary to know from the inside rather than confining our attention to...
18) Laughter
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This book contains a collection of essays by Henri Bergson. Within these thee essays, Bergson explores laughter, especially that which is caused by a comedian. He goes on to discuss the categories of comedic experiences and situations, as well as defining the laws of comedy. Contents include: "The Comic In General-The Comic Element In Forms And Movements-Expansive Force Of The Comic", "The Comic Element In Situations And The Comic Element In Words",...
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