Bergson’s Creative Evolution Inspires Artists and Thinkers
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
- Categories: Philosophy, Literature, Publishing, Arts
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, French History
- Geographical Location: Paris
- Date: 1907
Article abstract: Bergson addressed the fact that, by the turn of the century, people were already speaking of evolution in a past sense and considering the modern human exempt from its working.
Summary of Event
Henri Bergson was born in Paris on October 18, 1859—the year Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species was published. Bergson was of Jewish ancestry; his father was a talented Polish musician, and his mother was a cultured Anglo-Irish woman. His education was typically Parisian French, beginning at the Lycée Fontane (subsequently...
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