The Wisdom of Henri Bergson

Duration, Intuition, and the Flow of Living

von Sapientia Mundi Press

168 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What if the most important truth about reality is that it never stops moving?The Wisdom of Henri Bergson: Duration, Intuition, and the Flow of Living traces the life and philosophy of one of the most original thinkers of the modern era. Henri Bergson challenged the foundations of Western thought by arguing that lived time - what he called durée - is fundamentally different from the measured time of clocks and physics. His insight that consciousness flows as a continuous, qualitative stream rather than ticking forward in discrete units reshaped philosophy, influenced literature and the arts, and anticipated developments in cognitive science that would not arrive for another century.From his formative years at the École Normale Supérieure to his final act of moral courage under the Vichy regime, Bergson pursued a single philosophical vision with extraordinary consistency and grace. He showed that the free will debate rests on a misunderstanding of consciousness, that memory is not stored in the brain, that evolution is driven by a creative impulse that neither mechanism nor teleology can explain, and that the deepest truths about morality and religion arise from rare individuals whose inner transformation overflows into world-changing action.The Wisdom of Henri Bergson: Duration, Intuition, and the Flow of Living presents these ideas not as museum pieces but as living responses to questions that remain urgent in an age of algorithms and acceleration.- Explore Bergson's revolutionary concept of duration and why it still challenges our understanding of time- Discover his groundbreaking theory of memory and its implications for the mind-body problem- Understand the élan vital and what creative evolution reveals about the nature of life- Learn how his philosophy of intuition offers an alternative to purely analytical thinking- Follow his dramatic encounters with Einstein, William James, and the intellectual currents of his eraWritten in a contemplative, historically grounded style for educated general readers, this volume brings Bergson's thought to life for a new generation. Whether you are encountering his ideas for the first time or returning to them with fresh eyes, The Wisdom of Henri Bergson: Duration, Intuition, and the Flow of Living offers a path into one of the richest philosophical minds of the past two centuries - and a reminder that reality, at its deepest level, is not a thing but a process, not a diagram but a melody.