Process Theologians - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Henri Bergson, Harold Kushner, Mordecai Kaplan, Paul Fiddes, David Ray Griffin, Charles Hartshorne (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Abraham Joshua Heschel, Henri Bergson, Harold Kushner, Mordecai Kaplan, Paul Fiddes, David Ray Griffin, Charles Hartshorne, John B. Cobb, Bruce G. Epperly, Bradley Shavit Artson, William E. Kaufman, Max Kadushin, Stephen T. Franklin, Norman Pittenger, Milton Steinberg, Nancy R. Howell, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, Daniel Day Williams, Alvin J. Reines, C. Robert Mesle, Catherine Keller. Excerpt: Henri-Louis Bergson (French pronunciation: 18 October 1859 - 4 January 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality. He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented." Bergson was born in the Rue Lamartine in Paris, not far from the Palais Garnier (the old Paris opera house) in 1859 (the year in which France emerged as a victor in the Second Italian War of Independence, and in the month before the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species). His father, the musician Micha Bergson, was of a Polish Jewish family background (originally bearing the name Bereksohn). His mother, Katherine Levison, daughter of a Yorkshire doctor, was from an English and Irish Jewish background. The Bereksohns were a famous Jewish entrepreneurial family of Polish descent. Henri Bergson's great-great-grandfather, Szmul Jakubowicz Sonnenberg, called Zbytkower, was a prominent banker and a protege of Stanis aw August Poniatowski, King of Poland from 1764 to 1795. Henri Bergson's family lived in London for a few years after his birth, and he obtained an early familiarity with the English language from his mother. Before he was nine, hi...