An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.

The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. ' But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. Read as part of my 2015 Modernists project. This revolutionary multiplicity despite its difficulty opens the way to a re-conception of community, or so many today think. This concept attempts to unify heterogeneity and continuity, contradictory features, in a consistent way. Deleuze recognized his concept of multiplicity as his most enduring contribution to thinking. Whereas such thinkers as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean Paul Sartre, and Lévinas explicitly acknowledged his influence on their thought, Bergsonism of Gilles Deleuze in 1966 marked the reawakening of interest. Popular and accessible works of French philosopher and writer Henri Louis Bergson include Creative Evolution (1907) and The Creative Mind (1934) and largely concern the importance of intuition as a means of attaining knowledge and the élan vital present in all living things he won the Nobel Prize of 1927 for literature.Īlthough international fame and influence of this late 19th century-early 20th century man reached heights like cult during his lifetime, after the Second World War, his influence decreased notably.

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