H. Bergson’s Intuitive Method: to a Problem of Methodology of the Humanitarian Disciplines

This publication represents the methodology of Henri Bergson in a context of the problematics of mo­dern humanitarian knowledge. In the first part of the article criteria of Bergson’s differentiation of two ways of knowledge (rational and intuitive) and two forms of representation of its results (conceptual and figurative) are analyzed. On the basis of images Bergson develops special qualitative images-concepts (including well-known la durée and élan vital). Art as the area of human spirit extremely close, on Bergson, intuitive philosophy is considered in the second part. Also the author gives some examples of applying the qualitative concepts-images for research of art of 19^th and 20^th centuries boundary.