Bergsonian
- noun
- /bərˈɡoʊniən/
- Specialized
- The seminar attracted numerous Bergsonian thinkers who shared their interpretations of Henri Bergson's views on the relationship between time and experience.
- Bergsonian classicism
Examples
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As a proud Bergsonian, she often discusses how Bergson's philosophy can help us understand the nature of time and consciousness.
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Unsurprisingly, he never catches up with any of his expectations and remains disconnected both from the Bergsonian sense of personal duration and from the historical movement of outside events.
Academic text (1993) -
In Proust's great work, we find a rejection of the plenitude of Bergsonian duration and of the positive implications of perspectivalism.
Academic text (1999) -
He overcame time by mysteriously living in an immediate, ever-expanding Bergsonian present.
Academic text (2004) -
On this note, Gleizes returns us to the Bergsonian definition of classicism forged by Barzun.
Academic text (1992) -
By taking up Barzun's Bergsonian definition of classicism, Gleizes joined his Cubism to a temporal notion of the Celtic race's "creative evolution."
Academic text (1992) -
Designed as a reply to the criticism of his peers, Gleizes's essay again departed from his co-authored text and applied the Bergsonian tenets found in Du Cubisme to an analysis of the French tradition.
Academic text (1992) -
Having rediscovered the "Celtic origins" of French art, Gleizes would have French artists "develop" these origins through Bergsonian intuition to create an "organic" art as rooted in the French tradition as the Gothic art of their Celtic forbears.
Academic text (1992) -
The commune of the Abbaye de Creteil evoked Rabelais in its Bergsonian vision of a society composed of intuitive artists, freed from the "utilitarian" concerns of industrial capitalism.
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Furthermore, Barzun aligned his classical program to the Bergsonian conception of simultaneity forged in Du Cubisme by declaring rhythm to be his means of evoking a logical state of mind.
Academic text (1992)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Bergsonian = Bergson (transparent) = Bergson + ian
The noun is a straightforward agent/partisan formation from 'Bergson' with the productive suffix '-ian' (one who follows or relates to Bergson).
Etymology
A Bergsonian comes from the name Bergson and the ending -ian, which means 'of' or 'belonging to', just like Newtonian or Victorian. So a Bergsonian is a person who follows or supports Bergson's ideas about time, the mind, and intuition.