Henri Bergson
Henri Louis Bergson was a French philosopher and writer whose work profoundly shaped early 20th-century thought.
Best known for Creative Evolution (1907) and The Creative Mind (1934), he championed intuition as a superior means of attaining knowledge and introduced the concept of the élan vital present in all living things.
He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927.
Though his influence waned after World War II, it was revived notably by Gilles Deleuze in 1966, and thinkers including Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Lévinas acknowledged his lasting philosophical impact.
