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Bergson
About this book
Henri Bergson was a French professor and philosopher. Born in Paris in 1859 to a Polish composer and Yorkshire woman of Irish descent, his revelatory ideas of life as ceaseless transformation and the importance of attention, learning, humor and joy brought him incredible fame and media celebrity.Here you will find insights from his greatest works.The Life Lessons series from The School of Life takes a great thinker and highlights those ideas most relevant to ordinary everyday dilemmas. These books emphasize ways in which wise voices from the past have urgently important and inspiring things to tell us.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Learning to Swing Along with the Process
- 2. Learning to Tune in to the Melody of Duration
- 3. Learning to Heed the Whispers of Intuition
- 4. Learning to Laugh through Department Meetings
- 5. Learning to Know what we Know but do not See that we Know and to See what we See but do not Know that we See
- 6. Learning to Enhance Perception, Memory and Attention
- 7. Learning to Be, and Belong to, an Organism
- 8. Learning to Experience Mystical Raptures without Becoming St Teresa
- Conclusion: Bergson’s Cash Value
- Homework
- Acknowledgements
- Also by Michael Foley
- Copyright