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  • noun The philosophy of Henri Bergson.

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  • In Bergsonism (1966), Deleuze develops the ideas of virtuality and multiplicity that will serve as the backbone of his later work.

    Gilles Deleuze Smith, Daniel 2008

  • But it is clear that Sartre devoted much of his early philosophical attention to combating the then influential Bergsonism and that mention of Bergson's name decreases as that of Heidegger grows in Sartre's writings of the "vintage" existentialist years.

    Jean-Paul Sartre Flynn, Thomas 2004

  • Clearly most of the themes of irrationalism are pres - ent in Bergsonism in which they are compressed: vital - ism, criticism of science insofar as it consists of hy - potheses, and general distrust of the abstract intellect.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN WAHL 1968

  • Philosophy, you will say, doesn't lie flat on its belly in the middle of experience, in the very thick of its sand and gravel, as this Bergsonism does, never getting a peep at anything from above.

    A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876

  • Lipstick Traces is informed by a cryto-Bergsonism, a sense that reification consists in the encrustation and calcification of the living body.

    k-punk 2009

  • (cubism, futurism, Bergsonism, syndicalism, or the like) I go to her, certain that she will know all about it.

    Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

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