In 1901, on a summer day in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, Jacques Maritain and his future wife, Raïssa, concluded a suicide pact. The two Sorbonne students despaired at the lectures of France’s ...

Until the beginning of World War I, Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was the most famous philosopher in the world. He attracted overflowing crowds of Parisians to his lectures and was greeted with the same ...

Henri Bergson’s philosophy for our times. Why did one of the early 20th century’s most famous philosophers go out of fashion? Fama is a fickle deity. at the turn of the 20th century, Henri Bergson was ...

A CENTURY AGO, on April 6th 1922, the world’s most famous philosopher debated against the most famous physicist and lost. Henri Bergson, a French thinker who caused Broadway’s first traffic jam when ...

Henri Bergson’s philosophy for our times. Illustration by Joe Ciardiello. Fama is a fickle deity. at the turn of the 20th century, Henri Bergson was one of the most famous people in the world, and ...

MANY PEOPLE think that there must be something more to the fabric of reality than what science can explain. Four-fifths of Americans believe in the existence of “something spiritual beyond the natural ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Henri Bergson on how our experience of time as a duration differs from the scientific measurement of time, and why that matters. Show more Melvyn Bragg and ...