A CENTURY AGO, on April 6th 1922, the world’s most famous philosopher debated against the most famous physicist and lost. Henri Bergson, a French thinker who caused Broadway’s first traffic jam when ...

Henri Bergson, noted French Jewish philosopher, was awarded the 1927 Nobel prize for literature, held over from last year. This year’s literature award went to Mme. Sigrid Undset. The value of each ...

IN taking this line from Emerson for the title of an essay on Henri Bergson, I would indicate at once the aspect of his philosophy that most appeals to me. The over-arching conception in his writings ...

On Herald of a Restless World by Emily Herring. To help answer we are guided by a fine new book, Emily Herring’s Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People. 1 There ...

Henri Bergson’s philosophy for our times. Illustration by Joe Ciardiello. Fama is a fickle deity. at the turn of the 20th century, Henri Bergson was one of the most famous people in the world, and ...

I recently read a wonderfully engaging book, The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed our Understanding of Time. It centered on a debate taking place in Paris ...