id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1562 Henri Bergson - Wikipedia .html text/html 12854 1457 67 Henri-Louis Bergson (French: [bɛʁksɔn]; 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a French philosopher of Jewish descent[6][7][8][9][10] who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War.[11] Bergson is known for his arguments on processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality. portrayed the realism of Karl Marx and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon as hostile to all forms of intellectualism, and argued, therefore, that supporters of Marxist socialism should welcome a philosophy such as that of Bergson.[citation needed] Other writers, in their eagerness, claimed that the thought of the holder of the Chair of Philosophy at the Collège de France, and the aims of the Confédération Générale du Travail and the Industrial Workers of the World were in essential agreement. Works by Henri Bergson in French at "La Philosophie" ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1562.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1562.txt