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  • Before January is forgotten, Arts Lust wants to place a memory kiss on the high slender forehead of Henri Bergson who died last month at the age of 81.

    Allan M. Jalon: ARTS LUST: Remembering Henri Bergson Allan M. Jalon 2011

  • The only son of middle-class Bretons, Jarry had received an excellent education, first in Rennes in Brittany, then at the prestigious Lycée Henri IV in Paris, where one of his teachers was the philosopher Henri Bergson.

    That Ubu That He Did So Well Gabriel Josipovici 2012

  • Before January is forgotten, Arts Lust wants to place a memory kiss on the high slender forehead of Henri Bergson.

    Allan M. Jalon: ARTS LUST: Remembering Henri Bergson Allan M. Jalon 2011

  • Henri Bergson talked of "the illusions of retrospective determinism."

    1989! Ash, Timothy Garton 2009

  • Indeed, creativity is central to the evolutionary process, as Henri Bergson pointed out a century ago7 and psychiatrist Charles Johnson has explored more recently in The Creative Imperative.8

    The Making of a New Biophilia: Evolutionary Governance and the Modern Creation Myth By Walter Truett Anderson William Harryman 2009

  • In Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic 1911, philosopher Henri Bergson explains that in order to produce the whole of its effect, the comic demands something like a momentary anesthesia of the heart.

    The F in FWART « Gender Across Borders 2009

  • † The term was coined in 1907 by the French philosopher Henri Bergson.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • For example, along with the criticism of Dilthey in “Materialism and Metaphysics” and the criticism of Scheler in “Remarks on Philosophical Anthropology,” there are (among others) critiques of this type that attack Kant in “Materialism and Morality,” and Henri Bergson in “On Bergson's Metaphysics of Time.”

    Max Horkheimer Berendzen, J.C. 2009

  • † The term was coined in 1907 by the French philosopher Henri Bergson.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Among the moderns, the greatest advocate of the intuition has been, not a psychologist, but a philosopher, Henri Bergson.

    C. G. Jung and Psychosynthesis, by Roberto Assagioli William Harryman 2009

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