Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
Bergson filled lecture halls and stopped traffic in New York, and then philosophy forgot him.
Emily Herring recovers the philosopher whose ideas about time, memory and intuition made him the most famous thinker alive in the years before the First World War, and whose reputation then collapsed almost completely. Marcel Proust was best man at his wedding. A welcome addition to the thin English-language literature on him.
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Tyler Cowen
Emily Herring, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People. It is good to see more on Bergson in English. I had not known that the best man at his wedding was Marcel Proust (they were cousins by marriage and Proust was not yet famous).
Source · December 2024
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