The racial discourses of life philosophy: negritude, vitalism, and modernity

In the early twentieth century, the life philosophy of Henri Bergson summoned the lan vital, or vital force, as the source of creative evolution.

Bergson also appealed to intuition, which focused on experience rather than discursive thought and scientific cognition.

Particularly influential for the literary and political Ngritude movement of the 1930s, which opposed French colonialism, Bergson's life philosophy formed an appealing alternative to Western modernity, decried as