Henri Bergson, noted French Jewish philosopher, was awarded the 1927 Nobel prize for literature, held over from last year. This year’s literature award went to Mme. Sigrid Undset. The value of each ...

The book has been translated into Persian by Mahasti Bahreini. In this great philosophical essay, Bergson explores why people laugh and what laughter means. Written at the turn of the twentieth ...

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 ...

Portrait of physicist Albert Einstein sitting in an armchair with a pipe, circa 1934.(Lucien Aigner/Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) When Henri met Albert the stars didn’t quite align; nor did ...

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Emily Herring’s biography is an extraordinary portrayal of a man and his ideas. It is difficult to imagine a biography of a thinker better than hers, but we will keep looking.