Matter And Memory

NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 1927

French philosopher born on October 18, 1859, in Paris, and died on January 3, 1941, in the same city. Between 1877 and 1881 he studied at the École Normale Supérieure and obtained his doctorate in 1889, becoming a professor at the Collège de France. His doctoral thesis was written in Latin and was entitled Quid Aristoteles de loco senserit. In the same year, he published his first work: Essai sur les Données Immédiates de Conscience. After the publication of his second work, Matière et Mémoire, and Le Rire: Essai sur la Significance du Comique, both in 1900, he obtained the rank of full professor at the establishment where he was already teaching. In 1914 he became a member of the French Academy and in 1927 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
He was the first to elaborate what would come to be called the "philosophical process", which rejects static values in favor of the values of movement, change and evolution. He believed that time changes and that development was the essence of reality. He was a master of literary style, for the way he used metaphor, image and analogy in his expositions on life.
He was the author of other important works, such as Introdution à la Métaphysique (1903), L'Evolution Créatrice (1907), L'Énergie Spirituelle (1919), Durée et Simultanéité à Proposed de la Théorie D'Einstein (1921), among others.

Henri Bergson. In Infopédia [Online]. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003-2011.