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Henri Bergson

French philosopher of intuition and time, Nobel laureate in literature.

Henri Bergson was a French philosopher born in Paris on 18 October 1859.[1][2] Bergson's life was that of a quiet French professor, marked by the publication of three principal works.[2]

Quick Facts

Region
Western philosophy
Era
20th-century philosophy
Birth name
Henri-Louis Bergson
Born
18 October 1859
Birthplace
Paris, Second French Empire
Died
4 January 1941
Place of death
Paris, German-occupied France
Education
École Normale Supérieure, University of Paris (Ph.D., 1889)

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

Bergson's father, Michał Bergson, was a composer and pianist of Polish-Jewish background.[1] He attended the Lycée Fontanes in Paris from 1868 to 1878.[3] Bergson won a prize in 1877 for solving a mathematical problem, his first published work.[4] He entered the École Normale Supérieure at age 19 and obtained an agrégation de philosophie in 1881.[5]

He became Chair of Greek and Roman Philosophy at the Collège de France in 1900.[6] His third major work, Creative Evolution, appeared in 1907 and was widely discussed.[7] Bergson served from 1920 to 1925 as president of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation.[8]

What the cited sources add

A 1908 account notes that Bergson visited William James in London, who hailed him as an ally.[2] Bergson dedicated his first major work to Jules Lachelier, then public education minister.[2][9] In 1903, James wrote in a letter that rereading Bergson's works had excited and stimulated his thinking more than anything else he had read in years.[10][2] Bergson's own biography indicates that before turning nine, his family moved to France and he became a naturalized citizen of that country.[2]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Henri Bergson" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gelber, "Bergson", 1 January 2007; Dynner, "Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society", Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 104–105; Henri Bergson. 2014. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 13 August 2014; "Z ziemi polskiej do Nobla", Wprost, 4 January 2008; Testament starozakonnego Berka Szmula Sonnenberga z 1818 roku (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Bergson and his philosophy Chapter 1: Life of Bergson. facts only, no text reused. ibiblio.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Henri Bergson" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lawlor, Leonard and Moulard Leonard, Valentine, "Henri Bergson", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <ht (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Henri Bergson" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bergson, "Question proposée au concours général de 1877, pour la classe de mathématiques élémentaires", Nouvelles annales de mathématiques, 1878, p. 268–276 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Henri Bergson" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Anne Fagot-Largeau, 21 December 2006 course at the College of France (audio file of the course); Anne Fagot-Largeau, 21 December 2006 course at the College of France (audio file of the course) (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Henri Bergson" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Matter and memory", antilogicalism.com, July 2017 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Henri Bergson" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gunn, "Bergson and His Philosophy", Kessinger, 2005 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Henri Bergson" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Grandjean, "Les réseaux de la coopération intellectuelle. La Société des Nations comme actrice des échanges scientifiques et culturels dans l'entre-deux-guerres", Université de Lausanne, 2018 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Henri Bergson" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Louis de Broglie, (1969[1947]) The concept of contemporary physics and Bergson’s Ideas on Time and Motion, in Bergson and the evolution of physics, Pete A.Y. Gu (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Henri Bergson" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bergson and his philosophy Chapter 1: Life of Bergson (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Henri Bergson (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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