Bergson and Modern Thought
Subtitle: Towards a Unified Science (Models of Scientific Thought, Vol 3)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 1, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9783718603800
Subjects: Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Science/Mathematics; Philosophy Of Science; Philosophy Of The 20th Century; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Sociology - General; Bergson, Henri; Social Science / Sociology / General; 1859-1941; Bergson, Henri,
First sentence: There is a general impression - by now a textbook tradition - that Bergson's theory of knowledge was both romantic and anti-intellectual: romantic in proposing poetic but unverifiable views of nature, anti-intellectual in ruthlessly criticizing scientific knowledge of all kinds.