'Canales identifies a contentious set of debates between Bergson, his fellow Nobel laureate Albert Einstein, and their respective followers as the immediate cause of the decline in influence of the former. In so doing, her work opens up Bergson's philosophy to historians of science, medicine and technology. Along with that of Bruno Latour (2005) and Robert Brain, (2015, esp. 32-36) it is concerned with it not in relation to the articulation of a normative conception of existence, but rather insofar as it participated in broader intellectual and cultural developments. [note: 'For prior historical consideration of Bergson see e.g. Grogin 1988; Antliff 1993; Gilles 1996.']'