For practically the first time I get a sense of why Bergson is so important and why his thinking, in some quarters at least, got so much respect.
Barry Allen is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario. He has held visiting appointments at universities in Jerusalem, Shanghai, Istanbul, and Hong Kong, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Empiricisms and Vanishing Into Things: Knowledge in Chinese Tradition.
