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Henri Bergson

1859 - 1941

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Henri-Louis Bergson (; French: [bɛʁksɔn]; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopher who was influential in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War, but also after 1966 when Gilles Deleuze published Le Bergsonisme. Bergson is known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality. Bergson was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented". In 1930, France awarded him its highest honour, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Bergson is the 56th most popular philosopher (down from 55th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from France (down from 70th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Philosopher.

Henri Bergson was a French philosopher who wrote about the nature of time and consciousness. His most famous work is "Creative Evolution."

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Among philosophers, Henri Bergson ranks 56 out of 1,267. Before him are Anaxagoras, John Amos Comenius, Swami Vivekananda, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, and Mikhail Bakunin. After him are Plotinus, Karl Popper, Ramakrishna, Zeno of Elea, Zhuang Zhou, and Epictetus.

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Among people born in 1859, Henri Bergson ranks 4. Before him are Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Pierre Curie, and Arthur Conan Doyle. After him are L. L. Zamenhof, Knut Hamsun, Edmund Husserl, Svante Arrhenius, John Dewey, Georges Seurat, Alfred Dreyfus, and Yuan Shikai. Among people deceased in 1941, Henri Bergson ranks 4. Before him are James Joyce, Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and Rabindranath Tagore. After him are Virginia Woolf, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Walther Nernst, Emanuel Lasker, Maurice Leblanc, Maximilian Kolbe, and Paul Sabatier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Bergson ranks 82 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel Foucault (1926), Jacques Chirac (1932), Pope Urban II (1042), Edgar Degas (1834), Henry III of France (1551), and Louis IX of France (1214). After him are Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Tacitus (54), Jacques Cartier (1491), Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Irène Joliot-Curie (1897), and Pope Clement V (1264).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Henri Bergson ranks 6. Before him are René Descartes (1596), Montesquieu (1689), Auguste Comte (1798), Michel de Montaigne (1533), and Michel Foucault (1926). After him are Peter Abelard (1079), Roland Barthes (1915), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Jean Bodin (1530), Gilles Deleuze (1925), and Henri de Saint-Simon (1760).

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