Henri Bergson Centennial Series

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is one of the truly great philosophers of the modernist period, and there is currently a major renaissance of interest in his unduly neglected texts and ideas amongst philosophers, literary theorists, and social theorists. Bergson preoccupied himself with problems that continue to remain at the centre of philosophical inquiry, including the nature of consciousness, of time and memory, of freedom, and the significance of evolution. The publication of these three texts should serve to correct the widespread misconception of Bergson as a mystical vitalist, as well as encouraging the teaching of Bergson at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Taken together these texts demonstrate the precise nature and full extent of Bergson's commitment to a true or genuine empiricism, an empiricism that has the potential to inspire fresh philosophical thinking today.