E211 - Henri Bergson's Restless World w/ Emily Herring

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Danny and Derek welcome Emily Herring, a writer based in Paris, to the program. They discuss her new book, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People. The conversation delves into Henri Bergson's philosophy and its enduring relevance, particularly concerning contemporary anxieties surrounding the mechanization of the world, the dehumanizing potential of algorithms and artificial intelligence, the dangers of quantification and rigid categorization, and the perceived erosion of human creativity and the more enjoyable aspects of human experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.3	to be a new soul Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome to prestige.
1:06.2	I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson.
1:10.4	And we're very excited to welcome
1:11.8	to the podcast today, someone who I've followed on Twitter for years but have never met.
1:16.4	Emily Herring, Emily's a writer based in Paris. She also received her PhD in the history and
1:20.7	philosophy of science, not silence, science from the University of Leeds. And we've invited her to
1:26.4	talk about her new book,
1:27.8	Herald of a Restless World, how Henri Bergson brought philosophy to the people, which just
1:34.1	came out with Basic in October. Emily, thank you so much for joining us. Hi, thank you so much for
1:38.6	having me. I think the history and philosophy of silence should be my next book, actually. That sounds
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