Life Lessons from Bergson

Life Lessons from Bergson, as told by bestselling author Michael Foley Henri Bergson was a French professor and philosopher. Born in Paris in 1859 to a Polish composer and Yorkshire woman of Irish descent, his revelatory ideas of life as process and the importance of duration, comedy and joy brought him incredible fame and media celebrity. Here you will find extracts from his greatest works. The Life Lessons series from The School of Life takes a great thinker and highlights those ideas most relevant to ordinary everyday dilemmas. These books emphasize ways in which wise voices from the past have urgently important and inspiring things to tell us. Introduced and edited by Michael Foley, bestselling author of The Age of Absurdity and Embracing the Ordinary.