Word: bergsonism
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...Abram Bergson...
Among the guests were J. Peterson Elder, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Abram Bergson, director of the Russian Research Center; Wassily W. Leontief, professor of Fine Arts, and Paul G. Dety, professor of Chemistry. Two M.I.T. faculty members also attended. The group discussed education in the two countries...
...proponents of the view that man is perfectible, he extends small comfort. Whatever man is today, Lévi-Strauss insists, man already was. Among the more remarkable parallels he notes is the homology between the ideas of the French philosopher Henri Bergson, and those of an unnamed Dakota Indian sage. "Everything as it moves," Lévi-Strauss quotes the Indian, "now and then, here and there, makes stops. So the god has stopped. The sun, the moon, the stars, the winds, the trees are all where he has stopped." And from Bergson: "A great current of creative energy...
Perhaps the American humorist may yet lead himself out of the dark by re-examining his own craft. "The one specific remedy for vanity is laughter," wrote Philosopher Henri Bergson, "and the one failing that is essentially laughable is vanity." Is it only society that is laughable today? Or is it the humorists themselves, too proud or fearful or full of disdain to fulfill their function? That function is to be society's mocking bird, not its vulture. What the U.S. can always use is something that everyone has in him but only a true humorist can bring...
...scholar, he converted the classics of seven languages into Greek. As a philosopher, he absorbed Bergson, Nietzsche, Buddha and Lenin, and formed a derivative, somewhat nihilistic creed that seemed to sentence man to hopelessness and Western civilization to death. As a poet, he added 33,333 poetic lines to Homer's Odyssey-three times the master's output-and then dared to call it a modern sequel to that epic from the dawn of Western thought...