Author: Henri Bergson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781440045592

Excerpt from Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness Henri Louis Bergson was born in Paris, October 18, 1859. He entered the École normale in 1878, and was admitted agrege de philosophie in 1881 and docteur es lettres in 1889. After holding professorships in various provincial and Parisian lycees, he became maître de conferences at the École normale superieure in 1897, and since 1900 has been professor at the Collège de France. In 1901 he became a member of the Institute on his election to the Academie des Sciences morales et politiques. A full list of Professor Bergson's works is given in the appended bibliography. In making the following translation of his Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience I have had the great advantage of his co-operation at every stage, and the aid which he has given has been most generous and untiring. The book itself was worked out and written during the years 1883 to 1887 and was originally published in 1889. The foot-notes in the French edition contain a certain number of references to French translations of English works. In the present translation I am responsible for citing these references from the original English. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.