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Philosopher of Change: How Henri Bergson's View of Reality Came to Be
In the late months of 1859, if you had walked down the rue Lamartine in Paris on a chilly autumn evening, you might have overheard Henri Bergson’s father, Michal Bergson, gently playing one of his …
The demands of the Commune—the abolition of child labour, the separation of church and state, and fairer working conditions for men and women—and the Communards’ capture of some of the government’s cannons were met with bloody repression and tens of thousands of casualties. In an interview he gave many years later, Bergson reflected on the significance of the changes he encountered during his childhood, focussing not on the violent events of the Commune but on the apparently trivial question of his school’s name: But back in 1859, the “City of Light” did not yet have its first electric streetlamps, and the various directions in which Henri Bergson’s life would snowball—the weekly riots at the Collège de France, the Nobel Prize, the secret meetings with President Woodrow Wilson—were still impossible to predict.
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