Author: Bergson, Henri.
Title: Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience.
Description: Paris : Felix Alcan, 1889. First edition. Orig. printed wrappers. viii,181,32 pp. Small library stamp on title-page. Wrappers bit stained, tape stains and frayed. A few handwritten numbers on first pages. Rare. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - The first of his four principal works of Henri Bergson (1859-1941), first published in 1889 and translated in English as : Time and free will. It is Bergson's doctoral thesis.The essay deals with the problem of free will, which Bergson contends is merely a common confusion among philosophers caused by an illegitimate translation of the unextended into the extended, as a means of introducing his theory of duration, which would become highly influential among continental philosophers in the following century.

Keywords: PHILOSOPHY CATAWIKI, philosophy, metaphysics