Henri Bergson

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French philosopher human philosopher

Henri Bergson was a French philosopher known for his influential ideas on time, intuition, and creative evolution, which significantly shaped early 20th-century thought.

Aliases (2)

Bergson ×1
Henri Bergson’s work "Creative Evolution" ×1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French philosopher → human → philosopher →
awardReceived	Nobel Prize in Literature →
burialPlace	Cimetière de Garches →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateAwarded	1927 Nobel Prize in Literature →
dateOfBirth	1859-10-18 →
dateOfDeath	1941-01-04 →
educatedAt	Lycée Condorcet → École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED →
employer	Collège de France NERFINISHED → Lycée Henri-IV →
era	19th-century philosophy → 20th-century philosophy →
ethnicGroup	Jewish →
familyName	Bergson →
fieldOfWork	metaphysics → philosophy of mind → philosophy of religion → philosophy of time →
givenName	Henri →
influenced	Alfred North Whitehead → Gilles Deleuze → Jean-Paul Sartre → Marcel Proust → Maurice Merleau-Ponty → William James →
influencedBy	Charles Darwin → Henri Bergson’s Jewish heritage → Herbert Spencer → Immanuel Kant →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
movement	Bergsonism → continental philosophy → vitalism →
notableIdea	creative evolution → critique of mechanistic time → duration (durée) → intuition as method in philosophy → élan vital (vital impetus) →
notableWork	Creative Evolution → Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic → Matter and Memory → The Two Sources of Morality and Religion → Time and Free Will →
occupation	academic → philosopher →
placeOfBirth	Paris →
placeOfDeath	Paris →
relative	Marcel Proust (cousin by marriage) →
religion	Roman Catholicism (late in life) →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Louise Neuberger →

Referenced by (14)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Georges Sorel → Georges Sorel → Gertrude Stein → Gilles Deleuze → Jacques Maritain → Maurice Merleau-Ponty → Pierre Teilhard de Chardin →	influencedBy
Bergsonianism ("Henri Bergson’s work "Creative Evolution"") →	associatedWith
Henri Bergson ("Bergson") →	familyName
Lycée Louis-le-Grand →	hasAlumnus
Collège de France →	hasNotableProfessor
Bergsonianism →	namedAfter
Henri →	notableBearer
T. E. Hulme →	philosophicalInfluence