“The essential contribution of Bergson to philosophy is his criticism of intellectualism. In my opinion he has killed intellectualism definitively and without hope of recovery. I don’t see how it can ever revive again in its ancient platonizing role of claiming to be the most authentic, intimate, and exhaustive definer of the nature of reality.”
“Intellectualism here does what I said it does — it makes experience less instead of more intelligible.”
intellectualism = (roughly,) abstract reasoning; and tending to morph, often without warrant, idealism into (something like) idealistic realism or ‘a’ positivism
hat tip to excellent article: Henri Bergson and William James on Vicious Intellectualism vis partiallyexaminedlife
