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French philosopher Henri Bergson was born in Paris in 1859
and died in January 1941 after waiting hours
in the cold to register as Jewish in Nazi occupied France.
The Englishman Bertrand Russell was no fan of Bergson,
but the two thinkers nevertheless did have one thing in common.
They both won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Although his impact is barely felt today,
as his biographer Emily Hering explains, Bergson was hugely famous during his lifetime.
Emily Hering, welcome to Philosophy Bites.
Hi, thank you so much for having me.
The topic we're going to talk about today is Henri Bergson.
Who was he?
So Henri Bergson was a French philosopher.
You may not be familiar with his name, but about 100 years ago he was kind of unavoidable.
He was a philosopher, but he was also a celebrity.