Bergson memory6/28/2023 ![]() And yet, Deleuze is a notoriously difficult and dense thinker, and the difficulty and density are in evidence in his text on Bergson published in 1966. The renaissance of interest in Bergson taking place today is in no small measure due to the interest shown in Deleuze's philosophy, which relies heavily for its conceptual innovations on Bergson's texts and essays. Today a major renaissance of interest is taking place in Bergson's texts and ideas and it is baffling that a thinker of such profundity and originality has been absent from the conversations of philosophy for as long as he has. Deleuze always defended his interest in Bergson and was right to do so. Even when he did become well known Deleuze's interest in Bergson was treated by many in France and elsewhere with suspicion and even derision. ![]() Himself unknown in the immediate post-Second World War period, Deleuze was writing innovative essays in the 1950s on a deeply unfashionable philosopher. Deleuze first began to write on Bergson in the 1950s, a time when Bergson's intellectual ascendancy in Europe and even America had well and truly fallen into decline. A notable feature of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy is the way in which it extensively draws on the ideas of Bergson. ![]()
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