Bergson and the Art of Immanence: Painting, Photography.

In the early decades of the 20th century, the French philosopher Henri Bergson was an international celebrity. His fame had skyrocketed with the publication of his fourth book, Creative Evolution (1907). A philosophical interpretation of biological evolution, it rapidly became a worldwide bestseller.

Henri Bergson was the leading French philosopher of our age. He influenced William James and Whitehead and greatly influenced French thought. Basically, the impact of Bergson’s philosophy was conservative, it was easily consistent with the movement that culminated in Vichy. Bergson’s philosophy, unlike most systems of the past, is dualistic.

Bergson developed an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution without relying on divine design or intervention. Science has moved on and some of the experimental bases of his theory would now be considered doubtful by biologists and other scientists. Nonetheless, there has been a renewal of interest in Bergson's work amongst European.

Bergson 19s Theory of laughter surprised me in a way I wasn 19t expecting. What I mean is that it was not his theory of laughter that caught me off guard, but rather his understanding of life and art. To him, art is made for the individual, and here is the difference: the comic is, he says, always general. It 19s supposed to correct what is.

Bergson wrote in D-et-S, his notion of duration harmonized naturally with the hypothesis of a universal time. Bergson’s examination of the physical theory was to see whether it was in harmony with the time in physics. Bergson’s position on Einstein’s theory and the motivation for his hopeful.

In his book, Matter and Memory, French philosopher Henri Bergson saw images as central to solving philosophical problems of mind, matter, and memory. Images were granted a similar status in Jung’s theories of mind, as well as his prescriptions for psychological health. Jung felt that the key for handling the problem of opposites involved.

This paper is concerned with Mina Loy’s female consciousness in her poetry between the year of 1914 and 1920. The first two parts separately discuss how Futurism and Henri Bergson influence Loy. The two influences are concentrated on two different aspects of poems—form and content. Moreover, this paper also finds that the concept of intuition connects Futurism to Henri Bergson in a.

Gide even went so far as to say that future historians will over-estimate Bergson’s influence on art and philosophy just because he was the self-appointed spokesman for “the spirit of the age.” As early as the 1890s, Santayana attacked certain key concepts in Bergson’s philosophy, above all his view of the New and the indeterminate.

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At the core of his philosophy is his theory of “duration,” which he understands to be the ultimate and irreducible reality. Although Bergson understood duration to be the unified flow of time or becoming, he fought hard against all mechanistic and naturalistic interpretations of this temporal flux.

It focuses on the European tradition (Leibniz, Hume, Ravaisson, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Bergson) as well as 20th century and contemporary philosophers (Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard and Nancy), and on the major areas of contemporary philosophy such as phenomenology, post-structuralism and deconstruction.