Premium Collection: Laughter, Time and Free Will, Creative Evolution, Dreams & Meaning of the War & Dreams

by Henri Bergson, Frank Lubecki Pogson (Translator), Cloudesley Shovell Henry Brereton (Translator)

From the Renowned Nobel Prize Winning Author & Philosopher:
Henri Bergson was a French philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until World War II. Bergson is known for his influential arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality. He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented". In 1930 France awarded him its highest honour, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur.
This meticulously edited Henri Bergson collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
Creative Evolution
Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict
Dreams

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction

755 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 18, 2015

About the author

Popular and accessible works of French philosopher and writer Henri Louis Bergson include Creative Evolution (1907) and The Creative Mind (1934) and largely concern the importance of intuition as a means of attaining knowledge and the élan vital present in all living things; he won the Nobel Prize of 1927 for literature.

Although international fame and influence of this late 19th century-early 20th century man reached heights like cult during his lifetime, after the Second World War, his influence decreased notably. Whereas such thinkers as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean Paul Sartre, and Lévinas explicitly acknowledged his influence on their thought, Bergsonism of Gilles Deleuze in 1966 marked the reawakening of interest. Deleuze recognized his concept of multiplicity as his most enduring contribution to thinking. This concept attempts to unify heterogeneity and continuity, contradictory features, in a consistent way. This revolutionary multiplicity despite its difficulty opens the way to a re-conception of community, or so many today think.