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3 days ago · It relates to Henri Bergson’s (1859–1941) philosophy, Eero Saarinen’s (1910–1961) architecture, Achille Castiglioni’s (1918–2002) design, etc. However, it was crucial for us to develop ...
2 days ago · For a discussion of creative evolution in the context of élan vital, understood as a creative impulse of human ingenuity based on instinct, intuition, and intellect, see Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (translated from French by Arthur Mitchell, New York, NY: Macmillan, 1911); and especially Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (translated from French by Donald A. Landes, London: Routledge, 2022).
3 days ago · Grosz identifies the latter interpretation, which understands habit as primarily creative, in ‘the philosophy of life that runs through the work of Félix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, and that has Darwin as its attractive centre’, over against a focus on the mechanical dimensions of habit seen in the work of Descartes, Kant and Sartre, whose view of habit downplays the role ...
1 day ago · Bergson taught the writers of early modernism that immediate experience and intuition are more important to understand reality than abstract rationalism. He lived a Kantian life of the quiet professor and published four major works: Time and Free Will (1889), Matter and Memory (1896) Creative Evolution ( 1907 ), and The Two Sources of Morality and Religion ( 1932 ).
3 days ago · And the insecurities of the French: following Napoleon’s defeat, with their beloved state of Alsace-Lorraine annexed by Germany, their proud and glorious army further rocked by the Dreyfus affair, they found themselves turning to Henri Bergson and his idea of the vital spirit, or élan, or “the offensive” as it translated to military terms.
2 days ago · Illinois Press (@illinoispress). In a new issue of Process Studies (53.1), authors explore influence of calculus on Henri Bergson's philosophy, Daniel Dombrowski's "Process Philosophy and Political...
5 days ago · Henri Fantin-Latour was a painter of a rather realistic style, as denoted by his portraits and still lifes inspired by Chardin. However, his compositions inspired by musical themes-especially by Wagner , Schumann and Berlioz -have a strong symbolist component, [70] in compositions in which he recreates fantastic worlds populated by Pre-Raphaelite-looking nymphs.
