The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

AdornoLucio CollettiJean-Paul Sartre and Georges Politzer as well as Maurice Blanchot American philosophers such as Irving Babbitt Arthur Lovejoy Josiah Royce The New Realists (Ralph B. Because of his (relative) criticism of intelligence he makes a frequent use of images and metaphors in his writings in order to avoid the use of concepts which (he considers) fail to touch the whole of reality being only a sort of abstract net thrown on things. Wildon Carr prepared an English translation under the title Mind-Energy.

Henri-Louis Bergson (French: [bɛʁksɔn] 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a major French philosopher influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. In 1930 France awarded him its highest honour the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur.