Bergson reader of Lucretius: the existential implications of determinism

We take as object of analysis Bergson's early work, Extraits de Lucrèce, trying to show that by privileging the negative existential implications of determinism, he prefigures and justifies his having dedicated a great deal of his later philosophical thought to a criticism of determinism and a defense of liberty.

Bergson; Lucretius; determinism; existential