"Bergson's descriptions of life in terms of creativity and freedom reassured people who feared that biology reduced human existence to a cold mechanical process."
"In her lively and deft biography of Bergson, Herald of a Restless World, Emily Herring tries to explain what all the fuss was about, and why his fame vanished almost as suddenly as it had appeared."
"The fad went global when Bergson's Creative Evolution appeared in English in 1911. In that book, Bergson announced that for a conscious being, to exist is to change..."
"An awareness of the passage of time, which he dubbed duree, seemed to be something that science could not capture. Bergson knew that when he tried to explain duree..."
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