By Andreas Vrahimis Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 402 pp., $139.99 Reviewed by Christopher C. Faille In the late years of the nineteenth and the early years of the twentieth century, French philosopher Henri Bergson became an international celebrity on the strength of three books, known in English as Time and Free Will , Matter and Memory, and Creative Evolution. Bergson’s philosophy holds that time, novelty, and free will are all closely intertwined realities: The future contains surprises that cannot even in principle have been determined by calculation from the facts that exist today, and future human decisions are among those surprises. Bergson ties this case to a dichotomous view of cognition. He sees a sharp distinction between intelligence and intuition. Intelligence is very useful; it is a survival mechanism for humans, but it cannot grasp the essence of reality: the movement of time. Intelligence geometricizes, reducing time to space and eliminating free w...