Spectacles

One day by chance, journalist Michel Georges-Michel found himself at the cinema with the world’s most famous living philosopher, Henri Bergson. “It is thus one day that we found ourselves in a movie theater where he spoke to me of these spectacles which have such a large role in modern life: ‘The philosopher should be interested in everything,’ he said, ‘in everything which influences the masses as well as everything which touches the elite.’ “ Sharing what he has learned from the cinema, Bergson evoked the racecourse images of the Romantic painter Gericault, famous for incorrectly rendering horses’ legs fully extended while running. “The cinema taught me that the vision of Gericault was the exact apparent vision ... and from that you can imagine what a philosopher could deduce about the apparent exactitude and the exactitude reele.” Invited to the philosopher’s garden at Clermont, Georges- Michel takes in the afternoon sun while Bergson tends his roses.

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