In 1891, Bergson married the cousin of the novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922), whose writing was strongly shaped by Bergson’s durée.Proust’s monumental In Search of Lost Time — the longest ...

Henri Bergson, a French thinker who caused Broadway’s first traffic jam when he gave a lecture in New York, had challenged the notion of time advanced by Albert Einstein, the discoverer of ...

Bergson told Einstein that the only proper way to unpack the full meaning of time, in all its lived richness, was through explicit philosophical investigations. Einstein, however, was not moved.

For many, time feels like it's passing differently lately. A philosophical theory can help us understand why the days seem to drag during the pandemic.

Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will (first published 1889; Adamant Media Corporation, 2000) Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory (first published 1896; Martino Fine Books, 2011) ...

In time, Bergson’s name would be added to that roll of honor. It was at the École Normale Supér- ieure that Bergson befriended and became amiable rivals with Jean Juarès, ...

Bergson’s ideas end up in Martin Heidegger’s concept of “clock time.” T.S. Eliot attended Bergson’s lectures in Paris in 1910 ...

In 1922 at an event headlined by Albert Einstein, Bergson was asked to share his views that challenged Einstein’s conception of time. The physicist slapped him down with a curt riposte: “The ...

Henri Bergson was born in Paris in 1859 to a Jewish family with Polish roots—the name was originally Bereksohn. His father was a composer and pianist; his mother, Katherine Levison, was an ...