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Bergsonism
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Berg·son·ism  (brgs-nzm)
n.
The philosophy of Henri Bergson, which asserts that the flow of time personally experienced is free and unrestricted rather than measured on a clock and contends that all living forms arise from a persisting natural force, the élan vital.
Berg·soni·an (-sn-n) adj. & n.
Bergsonism
the philosophy of Henri Bergson, emphasizing time or duration as the central f act of experience and asserting the existence of the élan vital as an original life force governing all organic processes in a way that can be explained only by intuition, not by scientific analysis. — Bergsonian, n., adj.
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Here the novel temporarily employs unforgiving Bergsonian satirical mode.
Flyover Country by Sayers, Valerie / Commonweal
The anti-evolutionary, anti-mechanistic creative vitalism Bontemps writes into his text seems Bergsonian in character and articulates, however abstractly, a basic tenet of fascist ideology, namely, the need for vital, creative masculine health to combat the effects of western degeneration.
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Joseph's Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde sets the artist's early work within a dense context of Bergsonian philosophy, poststructuralist thought, and recent art-historical debate.
Two on one: Richard Meyer on Robert Rauschenberg by Meyer, Richard / Artforum International
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