Henri Bergson

She did not take advantage of her opportunity to study theology while at the Anglican foundation of King's, but became interested in religion through reading philsophy and poetry from her father's library. Plotinus , St Augustine

BM 's mother, Sara (Bergson) Spiro , a Swede of Polish descent, was related to the influential French philosopher Henri Bergson . She had been a teacher in Sweden.

She and Dodge shared many interests, including Henri Bergson , whose work they read together.

Graham Greene offered the same accolade as for her previous novel, recognizing its disappointing reception with: What fools the reviewers have been.A. S. Byatt admired the mocking and sinister games played by the...

DM judged The Ego and His Ownthe most powerful book that has ever emerged from a single mind. She adopted Stirner's emphasis on individualism and anti-intellectualism, and began writing against political movements...

DR 's work was also informed by other less-recognized sources, particularly Henry James 's The Ambassadors, 1903. After reading this, she called James's narrative approach the first completely satisfying way of writing a novel...

Regarding the influence on each other of Imagism and Marsden's egoism, Andrew Thacker notes their shared emphases (from Bergson ) on the weaknesses of abstract rhetoric in art and politics, and their valuing of intuition...

DM contributed essays to the re-named journal, often on egoist and linguistic philosophies, until it folded in late 1919. In these she engaged variously with Stirner , Nietzsche , Bergson , and Berkeley , among...

The text addresses a number of issues affecting women, including suffrage, inadequate incomes, divorce legislation, and attitudes toward motherhood. Farr's immersion in mysticism and the occult is often evident, as when she advises her women...

Indeed, the book can be seen as an attempt to draw the outline for mysticism as a discipline, with its own history, goals, and methods. It is presented as being related to yet distinct from...

JEH had been considering Themis since about 1907, when she felt that recent archaeological, sociological, and other developments rendered her Prolegomena somewhat outdated. Her re-thought principles are heavily influenced by various writings by Nietzsche

One of her main subjects here is William James (recently deceased), whose theory of and experiments in pragmatism—particularly his emphasis on the will to believe—Lee disputes in favour of those explored by Charles Sanders Peirce

MS published A Defence of Idealism, in which she regretted having to refute those whose work she greatly admired: Samuel Butler , Henri Bergson , William James , Bertrand Russell , and others.

In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot

MP was tormented by illness throughout his life, forcing him to write at night in bed in notebooks that were then transcribed by typists. Proustian writing is characterized by extended psychological reportage, episodes of involuntary...