ABSTRACT
This essay shows that Bergson has an important contribution to make to the philosophy of the emotions, which is a neglected topic in the appreciation of Bergson. It poses two basic questions. First, just what is Bergson saying about the emotions? Second, in what ways is his characterisation of them important and philosophically significant? The essay responds to these questions in focusing on Bergson’s treatments of the emotions in Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness (1889), and The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932).
