Henri Bergson
OriginFrance
Era1859
SchoolVitalism
About Henri Bergson
Elan vital is the creative impulse driving evolution. Duree, lived time, differs utterly from clock time. Matter and Memory bridged mind and brain without reducing one to the other. Laughter explained comedy as the mechanical encrusted on the living. Crowds for his lectures blocked the streets of Paris. Won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927.