![]() ![]() According to Bergson it is impossible, without an adequate conception of time, to properly pose questions of free will or evolution, and in books such as Time and free Will (1889), Matter and Memory (1896) and Creative Evolution (1907) he reinterprets a vast range of empirical research in such a way as to take into account the role of time in psychological and biological processes. ![]() Bergson identifies in the history of Western thought the demotion of time to the status of a measurement, a demotion that renders the effects of its real activity in consciousness and in life inexplicable (even non-existent). ![]() This allowed him to conceive of creativity as the source of both psychological freedom and of life as an open system. Henri Bergson was the philosopher who, in an intellectual career stretching from the 1880s to the 1930s, provided a rigorous account of the real efficacy of time (which he called duration). ![]()
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