Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2019
Abstract
"Aller en Bergson" was in the pre-war Paris a matter of popular, even fashionable thing. Our study asks how and to what extent in 1918-1948 Henri Bergson's thinking was reflected by Czechoslovak philosophers such as T.
Trnka, F. Pelikán, F.
Mareš and V. Hoppe.
The aim of the paper is to outline certain tendencies of philosophy of life in the thinking of these authors on the one hand, but also to relativize the notion of the uncritical influence of Bergsonism among these thinkers; on the example of the latter two authors we want to show how the reception of certain Bergson's reflections shaped the direction of a more or less independent interwar Czechoslovak philosophy.