What is Henri Bergson?
{{Infobox philosopher | region = Western Philosophy | era = [[20th-century philosophy]] | image = Bergson-Nobel-photo.jpg | image_size = 188px | caption = Bergson in 1927 | name = Henri-Louis Bergson | birth_date = {{Birth date|1859|10|18|df=y}} | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|1|4|1859|10|18|df=y}} | death_place = Paris, France | school_tradition = [[Continental philosophy]]<br>French [[Spiritualism (philosophy)|Spiritualism]] | main_interests = [[Metaphysics]], [[epistemology]], [[philosophy of language]],<br /> [[philosophy of mathematics]] | influences = [[Herbert Spencer]] | influenced = [[Karl Popper]] }} '''Henri-Louis Bergson''' (18 October 1859 - 4 January 1941), was a [[French people|French]] [[philosopher]]. Bergson convinced many thinkers that the processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract [[rationalism]] and science for understanding [[reality]]. ==Life== He was born on the [[Rue Lamartine]] in [[Paris]], [[France]]. His mother, Katherine Levison, was of English and Irish [[Jew]]ish descent. His father, the pianist Michał Bergson, was of Polish Jewish descent. His early childhood was spent mostly in [[London]] after his birth. He learned the [[English language]] from his mother. He returned to Paris when he was nine years old, and became a naturalized French citizen.<ref>[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bergson/#1 Henri Bergson Life and works] The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</ref> He attended the ''Lycée Fontanes'' in Paris from 1868 to 1878. There he was given the 1877 prize for school mathematics, for the solution of a [[mathematical]] problem. When he was nineteen, he studied at [[École Normale Supérieure]] (ENS). He read many philosophy books, especially [[Herbert Spencer]]. He was given the 1927 [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]. In 4 January 1941, Bergson died in occupied Paris from bronchitis.<ref>[http://www.egs.edu/library/henri-bergson/biography/ He