Word: bergson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being in Logic. Philosophy 9a on the Philosophy of History is a detached course which should be looked into by History concentrators. The advanced courses in the history of philosophy are generally difficult and should not be taken until Junior year, except for 18 on William James and Henri Bergson, and 12 on Plato, which is excellently given by Wild and suggested for Sophomores. Other courses which were especially recommended are 11 on St. Augustine and 15 and 15a on Kant...
Students of the philosophy of Professor Whitehead will find the work especially interesting. Similar to Professor Whitehead's view is Bergson's insistence that a discussion of aesthetic "feeling" is fundamental to metaphysics. This view finds its most extreme expression in Bergson's philosophy...
...intuition into the domain of aesthetic experience. Art in the "means of revealing directly felt presentations". "The artist 'seeks beneath' to bring the aesthetic discovery to the surface." (p. 71). Mr. Szathmary's discussion shows very clearly that this conception of aesthetic experience, closely connected as it is with Bergson's distrust of analysis, can do little more than point out that such experience exists...
...theory of art, if it is to give any conception of what the aesthetic experience is, must be analytic of that experience itself. There are suggestions in Bergson which might be employed in this direction...
...Szathmary writes with accomplished smoothness and has not only succeeded in writing about aesthetic theory but has created a work of beauty as well. "The Aesthetic Theory of Bergson" is an undergraduate masterpiece...