Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Henri Bergson, Noted French Jewish Philosopher, Awarded Nobel Prize
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Henri Bergson
Henri-Louis Bergson was a French philosopher who was influential in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War, but also after 1966 when Gilles Deleuze published Le Bergsonisme.
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culture · French philosopher (1859–1941) · philosopher · professor · sociologist · writer · university teacher · also Henri Bergson, Berxon, Henri Louis Bergson, H. Bergson, Henry Bergson, Bergson
Born 18 October 1859 · Died 4 January 1941 · Q42156
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2025· 5 entries
The Nation: Henri Bergson’s Restless World
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The Nation: Henri Bergson’s States of Change
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The Economist: Henri Bergson was once the world’s most famous philosopher
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New York Sun: Henri Bergson, the Popular Philosopher of Change Who Stood Plato on His Head
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2024· 2 entries
Wall Street Journal: ‘Herald of a Restless World’ Review: Henri Bergson’s Intuition
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JSTOR Daily: Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson
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1941· 20 entries
Died 1941-01-04.
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“Być inteligentnym to bardzo męczące.”
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“Opis: zapewne pierwsze historyczne użycie zwrotu Homo Faber (człowiek – wytwórca) jako określenia gatunku ludzkiego.”
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“I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.”
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“Trwanie jest to ciągły postęp przeszłości, która wgryza się w przyszłość i nabrzmiewa, idąc naprzód.”
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“A idéia do futuro, prenhe de uma infinidade de possíveis, é pois mais fecunda do que o próprio futuro, e é por isso que há mais encanto na esperança do que na posse, no sonho do que na realidade.”
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“Wszystkie drogi dobra i prawdy prowadzą do Ewangelii.”
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“U istoty świadomej nie ma nigdy dwóch chwil identycznych.”
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“É preciso agir como homem de pensamento e pensar como homem de ação.”
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“Il faut agir en homme de pensée et penser en homme d'action. (fr.)”
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“Religia umacnia i utrzymuje w dyscyplinie.”
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“Punkt spotkania woli człowieka i woli Boga jest właśnie tym, co nazywamy materią.”
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“Od wieków pojawiają się ludzie, których zadanie polega na tym, aby widzieć i ukazywać nam to, czego nie dostrzegamy w sposób naturalny. Ludźmi tymi są artyści.”
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“Materia – to język, którym Bóg do nas mówi.”
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“Istnieje co najmniej jedna rzeczywistość, którą ujmujemy wszyscy od wewnątrz, za pomocą intuicji, a nie zwykłej analizy.”
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“Istnieją zmiany, ale nie ma pod zmianą rzeczy, które się zmieniają; zmiana nie potrzebuje substratu. Istnieją ruchy, ale nie ma przedmiotu bezwładnego, niezmiennego, który by się poruszał: ruch nie implikuje czegoś, co się porusza.”
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“Pensar consiste, ordinariamente, em ir dos conceitos às coisas, e não das coisas aos conceitos.”
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“Dusza ludzka jest częściowo zjednoczona z Bogiem, a częściowo niezależna.”
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“Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.”
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“...o que é duração pura exclui toda idéia de justaposição, de exterioridade recíproca e de extensão”
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1940· 1 entry
Jews in occupied France were required to register at police stations
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1932· 1 entry
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion)
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1931· 1 entry
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Gilles Deleuze who wrote Le bergsonisme in 1966
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1930· 1 entry
France awarded him its highest honour, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur
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1929· 1 entry
– a book that introduced Bergson's work to the Greek audience and a translation into Greek of Bergson's book L'Énergie spirituelle (1919) – the second part of her Introduction to Philosophy I & II (1965) included his phi
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1927· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1927).
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1924· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1924).
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1922· 2 entries
Bergson's book Durée et simultanéité, à propos de la théorie d'Einstein (Duration and Simultaneity: Bergson and the Einsteinian Universe) was published
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Career landmark: president (1922–1925).
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1918· 1 entry
The Académie française received Bergson officially when he took his seat among "The Select Forty" as successor to Emile Ollivier (the author of the historical work L'Empire libéral)
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1915· 1 entry
Was succeeded in the office of President of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques by Alexandre Ribot, and then delivered a discourse on "The Evolution of German Imperialism"
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1914· 4 entries
Career landmark: seat 7 of the Académie française (1914–1941).
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“Wearing and Nonwearing Forces”
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The Scottish universities arranged for Bergson to give the famous Gifford Lectures, planning one course for the spring and another for the autumn
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Bergson's countrymen honoured him by his election as a member of the Académie française
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1913· 1 entry
Bergson visited the United States of America at the invitation of Columbia University and lectured in several American cities, where very large audiences welcomed him
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1911· 2 entries
“s book Pragmatism. In it, he expressed sympathetic appreciation of James”
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Zone Books 1990: ISBN 0-942299-05-1, Dover Publications 2004: ISBN 0-486-43415-X
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1910· 2 entries
Bergson was the most cited philosopher in English academic journals, cited more than Aristotle, Kant, or Hegel
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Dover Publications 2001: ISBN 0-486-41767-0 – Bergson's doctoral dissertation
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1909· 1 entry
Impelled many English and American readers to investigate Bergson's philosophy, but no English translations of Bergson's major work had yet appeared
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1908· 1 entry
And met there with William James, the Harvard University philosopher who was Bergson's senior by 17 years, and who was instrumental in calling Bergson's work to the attention of the Anglo-American public
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1907· 1 entry
Creative Evolution (L'Évolution créatrice)
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1904· 2 entries
Bergson succeeded him as Chair of Modern Philosophy
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The Psycho-Physiological Paralogism (Le paralogisme psycho-physiologique), which now appears as Le cerveau et la pensée: une illusion philosophique
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1903· 1 entry
Contributed to the Revue de métaphysique et de morale an essay, Introduction to Metaphysics (Introduction à la metaphysique), which is useful as a preface to the study of his three large books
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1901· 1 entry
The Académie des sciences morales et politiques elected Bergson as a member
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1900· 2 entries
Felix Alcan published a work that had previously appeared in the Revue de Paris, Laughter (Le rire), one of the most important of Bergson's minor works
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The Collège de France appointed Bergson Chair of Greek and Roman Philosophy, which he remained until 1904
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1898· 1 entry
Bergson became maître de conférences at his alma mater, École Normale Supérieure, and later that year was promoted to a professorship
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1896· 1 entry
Bergson published his second major work, Matter and Memory
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1889· 1 entry
Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience)
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1888· 1 entry
And after teaching for some months at the municipal college, known as the College Rollin, he received an appointment at the Lycée Henri-Quatre, where he remained for eight years
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1877· 1 entry
When he was 18, for the solution of a mathematical problem
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1859· 1 entry
Born 1859-10-18.
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