What are the central tenets of Bergson's dualistic approach to mind-body problems, and what criticisms have been levied against it?

Bergson's dualistic approach to mind-body problems emphasizes the qualitative distinction and interdependence between mental and physical aspects, proposing a theory of 'durée' or 'duration' for understanding consciousness. Critics argue that this approach oversimplifies mind-body integration, lacking empirical grounding and failing to account for physiological complexities, as noted by philosophers like Merleau-Ponty .

How does Bergson's "élan vital" relate to his overall metaphysical framework and its interpretation by later philosophers?

The 'élan vital,' a pivotal concept in Bergson's metaphysics, represents the creative life force driving evolution and innovation beyond mechanistic explanations. This idea underpins his broader metaphysical framework, emphasizing fluidity and creativity in life processes. Later philosophers have used this concept to examine aspects of spontaneity and the dynamics of life, contrasting it with static metaphysical systems .

How does Bergson's theory of perception differ from traditional empiricist views, and what philosophical challenges does it raise?

Bergson's theory of perception diverges from traditional empiricism by emphasizing the role of memory and intuition in shaping perception, positing that perception is an active, creative process rather than a mere passive reception of sensory data. This raises challenges to empiricist claims of objective reality and necessitates rethinking the relationship between observer and environment in perception .

Evaluate Bergson's critique of rationalism in relation to contemporary challenges in metaphysics and scientific understanding.

Bergson's critique of rationalism, particularly his response to Einstein's relativity, challenges contemporary metaphysical and scientific perspectives by emphasizing the limitations of rationalist approaches to fully account for reality. He criticized the tendency of scientific rationalism to spatialize time, arguing that it failed to capture the qualitative aspects of time as "duration", a concept central to his philosophy that aligned more with lived experience and consciousness . Bergson's ideas resonate with modern discussions around quantum mechanics and the nature of time, which suggest that traditional, deterministic models of scientific analysis may not fully represent the complexities of the universe . His critique extends to the way science interprets phenomena, arguing for a dynamic understanding of reality that traditional rationalism cannot embrace effectively . In relation to metaphysics, Bergson challenges the static ontology of rationalism, positing instead a vitalistic and evolutionary view of reality that privileges change and becoming over fixed states . This has implications for how contemporary metaphysics might reconcile with scientific advancements, moving towards a more holistic understanding that integrates subjective and objective realities .

Discuss the implications of Bergson's philosophy for contemporary psychology as interpreted in modern psychological studies.

Bergson’s philosophy significantly influences contemporary psychology by re-establishing connections between psychological and philosophical discourses that were more integrated in the past. Bergson posited that psychological facts are tied to duration rather than measurable in space, advocating a view that experiences and consciousness are dynamic and non-reducible to static analysis . This idea challenges traditional psychological methodologies by focusing on lived experience and the qualitative flow of consciousness, which is seen as escaping rigid analysis . Bergson's critique of static models aligns with the contemporary shift in psychology towards understanding consciousness in terms of dynamic processes and subjective experiences . His concept of duration underlined the importance of qualitative temporal experiences in shaping human cognition and identity, which resonates with modern psychological theories exploring how perception and consciousness are temporally constructed . Despite criticism, notably by figures like Piaget, who challenged Bergson's philosophical approach as impractical compared to empirical sciences, Bergson’s emphasis on intuition and experience continues to influence areas like phenomenology and existential psychology . Thus, Bergson's philosophy underscores the value of considering temporal and qualitative aspects of psychological experiences, encouraging modern psychology to address complex human experiences beyond reductive models.

Discuss the metaphysical implications of Bergson's philosophy when applied to concepts of freedom and creativity.

Bergson's philosophy has significant metaphysical implications for concepts of freedom and creativity by emphasizing the role of duration and élan vital. Bergson’s concept of duration, which is an indivisible flow of time, contrasts with the fragmented and mechanical view of time, thus supporting a dynamic and continuous process that relates closely to creative evolution and spontaneity . This view of time aligns with the notion of creative freedom, as it suggests that real freedom arises from the unbridled flow of life and the internal dynamics of the self rather than from predefined paths or deterministic causality . Through duration, Bergson envisions freedom as an act of creation, where innovation and novelty are inherent to the unfolding of life . Furthermore, freedom for Bergson involves conceiving reality heterogeneously rather than homogeneously, indicating a liberated perspective not bound by rigid structures . Creativity, thus, embodies a perpetual process of renewal and transformation, hinting at a metaphysical reality where consciousness and life are in constant creation and self-renewal .

What was William James' reaction to Henri Bergson's work, "L'Evolution créatrice," and what specific aspects did he struggle to comprehend?

William James expressed enthusiasm for Henri Bergson's "L'Evolution créatrice," describing Bergson as a 'magician' and the book as a 'marvel' . However, he admitted to having difficulties understanding Bergson's full meaning, particularly his attack on the concept of 'nothing.' James appreciated Bergson's critique of the intellect and defense of spontaneity and continuity but was unconvinced by his critique of the idea of 'nothing' .

In what ways did Bergson's philosophy intersect with Japanese intellectual thought, particularly through figures like Nishida?

Bergson's philosophy intersected with Japanese intellectual thought through figures like Nishida, who used Bergson’s concepts to bridge Oriental and Western philosophies. Shūzō Kuki noted Bergson's influence on Nishida and drew parallels between Bergsonism and Zen Buddhism, highlighting the universal applicability and resonance of Bergson’s ideas across cultural boundaries .

How does Bergson's concept of time, as elaborated in his philosophical works, contrast with traditional static models of temporality?

Bergson's concept of time, or 'duration,' is dynamic and continuous, contrasting with static models that treat time as a series of discrete, separate moments or 'instants.' He rejects the 'knife-edge' present notion, proposing instead a fluid and indivisible flow, emphasizing the experiential and qualitative aspects of temporality as continuous rather than composed of segmented, measurable units .

Analyze the potential influences of Bergson's ideas on modernist literature, particularly through authors like Dorothy Richardson.

Bergson's ideas, particularly his notion of consciousness as a continuous stream, influenced modernist literature by encouraging writers like Dorothy Richardson to explore narrative techniques that reflect the fluid and subjective nature of human experience. This manifested in non-linear storytelling and introspective character exploration, aligning with modernist themes of multiplicity and perception .

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crits sur Bergson

1890
Georges Lechalas. Le Nombre et le temps dans leur rapport avec lespace, propos de Les Donnes
immdiates. Annales de Philosophie Chrtienne, N.S. 23 (1890): 516-40. Print. Eng. trans.
Number and Time in Relation to Space, as Concerns Time and Free Will.
1893
Maurice Blondel. Laction. Essai dune critique de la vie et dune science de la pratique. Paris: Alcan,
1893, 495. (Bibliographie de Philosophie Contemporaine) Eng. trans. Action. This item is
republished in 1950, Presses Universitaires de France.
1894
Jean Weber. Une tude raliste de lacte et ses consquences morales. Revue de mtaphysique et de
morale. 2.6, 1894, 331-62. Eng. trans. A Realist Study of the Act and its Moral Consequences.
1897
Gustave Belot. Un Nouveau Spiritualisme. Revue Philosophique de la France et de lEtranger, 44.8
(August 1897): 183-99. The author sees a danger of materialism in Matter and Memory. Print.
Eng. trans. A New Spiritualism.
Victor Delbos. Matire et mmoire, tude critique. Revue de Mtaphysique et de Morale, 5 (1897): 35389. Print. Eng. trans. Matter and Memory, A Critical Study.
Frdric Rauh. La Conscience du devenir. Revue de Mtaphysique et de Morale, 4 (1897): 659-81; 5
(1898): 38-60. Print. Eng. trans. The Awareness of Becoming.
L. William Stern. Die psychische Prsenzzeit. Zeitschrift fr Psychologie und Physiologie der
Sinnesorgane 13 (1897): 326-49. The author strongly criticizes the concept of the point-like
present moment. Print. Eng. trans. The Psychological Present.
1901
mile Boutroux. Letter to Xavier Lon. July 26, 1901 in Lettere a Xavier Lon e ad altri. Ed. R.
Ragghianti. Napoli: Bibliopolis (1892): 70n. Print. In this letter, a portion of which is quoted here,
Boutroux praises Bergsons talk on psychophysical parallelism delivered at the Socit franaise
de philosophie.

1902
Sergei Alekseevitch Askoldov. Filosofija i Zizn in Problemy Idealizma. Ed. P. I. Novgorodstev.
Moscow: Tri Kvadrata (1902): 196-215. Print. Eng. trans. Philosophy and Life.
Charles Pguy. Letter to Henri Bergson. July 29, 1902 in Feuillets Charles Pguy, 30: 8; Etudes
bergsoniennes 8:13; Mlanges p. 553. Print.
James Sully. Essay on Laughter. London: Longmans, Green (1902): xvi, 441. Print. The author claims
that Bergsons metaphysics prejudices his theory of laughter. Bergson sees laughter as attacking
the mechanical but fails to see it as an appreciation of life. Moreover, laughter is not only socially
corrective; it is socially indulgent.
William James. Letter to F. C. S. Schiller. November 27, 1902 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 497-98. Print. James notes
that he has read articles by two Bergson disciples, LeRoy and Wilbois. He does not find them
powerful philosophically but regards them as part of a philosophical movement which is
important. James puzzles over just what Bergson means.
William James. Letter to Henri Bergson. December 14, 1902 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 605-06. Also in The Letters of
William James. Vol. 2. Eds. William James, Jr., and Henry James. Boston: Atlantic Monthly
(1920): 178-80. Also (in French translation) in Delattre-Lebreton. Correspondance James (1924):
233-35; Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1933: 791-72; Mlanges, pp. 566-68. Print. James
responds here to his second reading of Matire et mmoire. James particularly agrees with
Bergsons demolition of the dualism of object and subject in perception. He sends Bergson a
copy of The Varieties of Religious Experience.
1903
Alberto Gmez Izquierdo. Historia de la Filosofa del siglo XIX. Zaragosa: C. Gasca (1903): xix, 600.
Print. Eng. trans. History of Twentieth Century Philosophy.
William James. Letter to Henri Bergson. February 6, 1903 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 608. Also (in French
translation) in Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1933: 795; Mlanges, p. 582. Print. James
attempts here to set up a meeting with Bergson in Europe, in late March or early April.
William James. Letter to Henri Bergson. February 25, 1903 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 605-06. Also in The Letters of
William James. Vol. 2. Eds. William James, Jr., and Henry James. Boston: Atlantic Monthly
(1920): 183-85. Also (in French translation) in Delattre-Lebreton. Correspondance James (1924):
236-38; Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1933: 795-97; Mlanges, pp. 583-84. Print. Here
James entertains the possibility of meeting Bergson in Paris in March. He raises questions
concerning the function of memory in Matire et mmoire (Matter and Memory) and of intuition
in the Introduction la mtaphysique (An Introduction to Metaphysics).

1904
Joseph Baruzi. Le rve dun sicle. Paris: Calmann-Lvy (1904): 326. Print. This study of creative ideas
in Victor Hugo and Richard Wagner is dedicated to Henri Bergson. Eng. trans. The Dream of a
Century.
1905
G.-H. Luquet. Rflexion et introspection. Contribution ltude de la mthode en psychologie. Revue
Philosophique de la France et de lEtranger, 60.11 (November 1905): 583-91. Print. Eng. trans.
Reflection and Introspection: Contribution to the Study of Method in Psychology. It is an
extract from the authors Ides gnrales de psychologie (1906).
William James. Letter to Henri Bergson. May 13, 1905 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 613. Also (in French
translation) in Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1933: 800; Mlanges, p. 655. Print. James here
attempts to set up a meeting with Bergson in Paris.
William James. Letter to Henri Bergson. May 18, 1905 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 613-14. Also (in French
translation) in Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1933: 500-01; Mlanges, pp. 655-56. Print.
James attempts again here to arrange a meeting with Bergson.
William James. Letter to Henri Bergson. July 10, 1905 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 614-15. Also (in French
translation) in Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1933: 501-02; Mlanges, p. 659. Print. James
writes here concerning the French translation of The Varieties of Religious Experience, which he
finds satisfactory.
C. A. Strong. Letter to Henri Bergson. August 23, 1905 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 403-04. Print. Strong notes
that he has written Henri Bergson concerning the panpsychism of G. Heymans (which had
influenced William James) and their similarities with those which Bergson has developed in Le
Paralogisme psycho-physiologique.
Giuseppe Tarozzi. La varieta infinita dei fatti e la libert morale. Palermo: Sandron (1905). Print. Eng.
trans. The Infinite Variety of Facts and Moral Freedom.
1907
Guillaume-Lonce Duprat. La Spatialit des faits psychiques in Revue Philosophique de la France et de
lEtranger, 63.5 (1907): 492-501. Print. Eng. trans. The Spatiality of Psychological Facts.
William James. Letter to Henri Bergson. May 15, 1907 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 618. Also (in French
translation) in Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1933: 804; Mlanges, p. 722. Print. This is a
brief, enthusiastic thanks on receiving a copy of LEvolution cratrice; he is sending Bergson a
copy of Pragmatism.

William James. Letter to Henri Bergson. June 13, 1907 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 618-21. Also in The Letters of
William James. Vol. 2. Eds. William James, Jr., and Henry James. Boston: Atlantic Monthly
(1920): 290-94. Also (in French translation) in Delattre-Lebreton. Correspondance James (1924):
293-97; Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1933: 804-08; Mlanges, pp. 724-26. Print. In this
much-quoted letter, James congratulates Bergson for his LEvolution cratrice: O my Bergson,
you are a magician, your book is a marvel . . . (p. 618). He also confesses to difficulties in
understanding Bergsons full meaning. He welcomes Bergsons attack on the intellect, and
Bergsons defense of spontaneity and continuity, but is not convinced by his attack on the concept
of nothing.
C. A. Strong. Letter to Henri Bergson. June 20, 1907 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 537. Print. Strong notes that
he is reading Bergsons extraordinary LEvolution cratrice and is inclined to accept its
panpsychism but not its vitalism.
Xavier Lon. Letter to E. Halvy. August 7, 1907 in Lettere a Xavier Lon e ad altri. Ed. R.
Ragghianti. Napoli: Bibliopolis (1992): 84-85n. Print. In this letter Lon notes that he has
received a letter from Georges Sorel. Sorel has been immersed for a month in Bergsons
LEvolution cratrice, which he finds terribly difficult.
William James. Letter to A. O. Lovejoy. September 15, 1907 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 480-82. Print. James
concludes his letter: P.S. Have you read Bergsons Evolution cratrice? I find it perfectly
glorious, though terribly obscure and unfinished.
1908
Emile Boirac. La psychologie inconnue. Introduction et contribution ltude exprimentale des sciences
psychiques. Paris: Alcan (1908): 346. Bibliothque de philosophie contemporaine. Print. On
pp. 40-41 the author uses Bergsons filter theory of perception, as developed in Matire et
mmoire (Matter and Memory), to explain the ordinary minds imperviousness to psychic
influence. Interestingly, he does not note the extensions of this notion in Bergsons essays on
dreams and on psychical research.
Friedrich von Hgel. The Mystical Element of Religion as Studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and Her
Friends. 2 vols. London: Dent; New York: Dutton (1908): 466, 422. See also Friedrich von
Hgel, 1928.
William James. Letter to Henri Bergson. May 8, 1908 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 622. Also (in French
translation) in Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1933: 809; Ecrits et paroles, 2: 260-61;
Mlanges, p. 764. Print. James notes here that he will be giving a lecture on Bergson as one of the
Hibbert Lectures. (This lecture was later published in A Pluralistic Universe [1909].) He asks
for data on Bergsons time/place of birth, etc.
William James. Letter to Henri Bergson. May 12, 1908 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 624. Also (in French
translation) in Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1933: 811-12; Mlanges, p. 767. Print. James

thanks Bergson for his account of his early intellectual crisis, and suggests a visit with Bergson in
Paris.
William James. Letter to Henri Bergson. July 19, 1908 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 625. Also (in French
translation) in Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1933: 812; Mlanges, p. 775. Print. James here
attempts once more to set up a meeting with Bergson. He encloses a copy of his recent talk on
Bergsons philosophy.
William James. Letter to Henri Bergson. July 28, 1908 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 627. Also in The Letters of
William James. Vol. 2. Eds. William James, Jr., and Henry James. Boston: Atlantic Monthly
(1920): 308-09. Also (in French translation) in Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1933: 814-15;
Mlanges, pp. 777-778. Print. James here once again concedes that he will not be able to meet
Bergson. He thanks Bergson for his kind remarks concerning his essay on Bergsons philosophy.
William James. Letter to Henri Bergson. October 4, 1908 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 628. Also in The Letters of
William James. Vol. 2. Eds. William James, Jr., and Henry James. Boston: Atlantic Monthly
(1920): 315. Also (in French translation) in Revue des Deux Mondes, Oct. 15, 1933: 815;
Mlanges, pp. 778-779. Print. In this letter James responds concerning his meeting with Bergson
in London and ponders what Bergson will have to say about Substanzbegriff.
William James. Letter to T. Flournoy. October 4, 1908 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 628. Print. James comments
here upon his three-hour meeting with Bergson that morning.
Nicolaus Losskij. Die Grunndlegung des Intuitionismus. Eine propdeutische des Intuitionismus. Trans.
J. Strauch. Halle: M. Niemeyer (1908): iv, 350. Eng. trans. The Intuitive Basis of Knowledge.
1909
F. H. Bradley. Letter to William James. May 14, 1909 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 638-40. Print. On p. 639
Bradley notes, vis vis the continuity of the given, that the previous winter he has read two of
Bergsons books, Donnes immdiates and LEvolution cratrice and was rather bored: Connu is
what I kept saying to myself.
Alphonse Chide. Autour du Problme de la connaissance in Revue Philosophique de la France et de
lEtranger, 67.12 (Dec. 1909): 581-604. Print. Eng. trans. Concerning the Problem of
Knowledge.
Clarisse Coignet. Bergson La Vie. Bericht ber den III Kongress fr Philosophie zu Heidelberg. 1.
bis 5. September 1908. Ed. Th. Elsenhaus. Heidelberg: Carl Winters Universittsbuchhandlung
(1909): 358-64. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson Life.
Leonardo Coimbra. O tempo cientifico. Ilustraao Popular, 11 (10 Jan. 1909): 15-16. Print. Eng. trans.
Concerning Scientific Time.

Shadworth H. Hodgson. Letter to William James. May 18, 1908 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought
and Character of William James. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 651-52. Print. The author
concurs with Jamess and Bergsons notion of the nature of the empirical element presupposed in
thought.
William James. A Pluralistic Universe: Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation
in Philosophy. New York: Longmans, Green (1909): v, 405. Print. See Bergson and his Critique
of Intellectualism, pp. 225-73. See also Appendix C, On the Notion of Reality as Changing,
pp. 395-400 for comparisons of Bergson and C.S. Pierce.
William James. Letter to James Ward. March 20, 1909 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 651. Print. James discusses
Bergsons epistemology here with Ward: To me it has been tremendously relieving . . .
Georges Lechalas. tude sur lespace et le temps. 2nd Ed. Paris: Alcan, 1909, ii, 307. (Bibliothque de
philosophie contemporaine)
P. Mokievskii. Filosofiia Anri Bergson. Russkoe bogatstvo, 17.6 (1909): 152-68. Print. Eng. trans.
Henri Bergsons Philosophy.
J.-H. Rosny An. Le Pluralisme. Essai sur la discontinuit et lhterognit des phnomnes. Paris:
Flix Alcan, 1909, 272. An English translation of the title of this item is: Pluralism.
Cornelius Albert Steenbergen. Henri Bergsons Intuitive Philosophie. Jena: Diederichs (1909): 109. Print.
This item is in English. It was published at the same time (1909) in a German edition.
A. Toporkov. Tvorestro i Mysl Po povudo knigi A. Bergsona Tvoreskaja Evoljucia. Zolotoe, Runo
5 (1909): 52-62. Print. Eng. trans. Creation and Thought: On the Subject of Bergsons Creative
Evolution.
James Ward. Letter to William James. April 12, 1909 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 651-52. Print. Ward concedes
that what Bergson has said about freedom in the Donnes immdiates is of interest to him.
Bergsons treatment of matter in LEvolution cratrice, however, leaves him cold: The start,
then, is with matter, and llan is not absolutely creative!
James Ward. Letter to William James. June 15, 1909 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 655. Print. Ward complains
here that Bergson, with his lan vital, strives to go beyond Kant, but is in the end mystical.
1910
Une Bergsonienne. Au-del du fminisme. Revue des Ides, 7 (Oct. 1910): 259-72. Print. Eng. trans.
Beyond Feminism.
Roger Allard. Au Salon dAutomne de Paris. LArt libre (Lyons), (Nov. 1910): 441-43. Print.
Jean-Marc Bernard. Discours sur le symbolisme. Les Gupes, (May 1910): 200-13. Print. This concerns
the Action franaise and its displeasure over Bergsons influence on art.

Thomas Stearnes Eliot. Draft of a Paper on Bergson. MS. 1910-1911. Eliot Collection, Houghton
Library, Harvard University. Print. For an analysis of this essay see M. A. R. Habib, 1993.
S. L. Frank. Pragmatizm, kak filosofskoe uchenie. Russkaia Misl, 31.5 (1910): 90-120. Print. Eng.
trans. Pragmatism as Philosophical Doctrine.
M. Hrubel. Lvolution cratrice. LAnne biologique, 15, 1910, 532-35.
William James. Letter to Henri Bergson. April 20, 1910 in Ralph Barton Perry. The Thought and
Character of William James. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown (1935): 633-34. Print. James here
notes that he is coming to Paris from England.
Richard Kroner. Filosofija Tvoreskoj evoljucii. Logos, 1 (1910): 86-117. Print. Eng. trans. The
Philosophy of Creative Evolution.
Agostino Lanzillo. Giorgio Sorel, con una lettere autobiografica. Roma: Libreria editrice Romana
(1910): 114. Uomini e tempi, 2. Print. Eng. trans. Georges Sorel, With a Personal Letter.
Jean Philippe. Revue (1910). Anne biologique, 15 (1910): XI-XIX. Print. On page XV the author,
noting a review of LEvolution cratrice in the 1910 Anne biologique, states: la suite dune
critique des no-darwiniens et des no-lamarkiens, lauteur propose, comme facteur universel, un
lan vital qui nest quune entit mtaphysique et ne peut mme pas tre mis sur le mme rang
que les facteurs invoqus par les naturalistes. Philippe is assistant director (directeur adjoint) of
the physiological psychology laboratory at the Sorbonne. He states that the lan vital is a mere
metaphysical entity.
Jean Philippe. Review of Les Images: Essai sur la mmoire et limagination by E. Peillaube. Anne
biologique, 15 (1910): 498-99. Print. The reviewer notes Peillaubes rejection of associationist
psychology, based on the arguments of William James and Henri Bergson: Lassociationisme est
du pur mcanisme ; si lon admet que nos tats de conscience sattirent, se fondent etc., on admet
par l mme quils sont pntrs dune activit commune qui fait de chacun deux lacte dune
personnalit (p. 498). But the author continues to treat images as weakened perceptions.
Jean Metzinger. Notes sur la peinture. Pan, (Oct.-Nov. 1910): 649-52. Print. Eng. trans. Notes on
Painting.
Pierre Rousselot. Amour intellectuel et synthse aperceptive. Revue de Philosophie, 16 (1910): 225-40.
Print. Eng. trans. Intellectual Love and Apperceptive Synthesis. The author seeks a
rapprochement between scholasticism and the philosophies of Bergson and Blondel.
Pierre Rousselot. Mtaphysique thomiste et critique de la connaissance. Revue No-Scholastique de
Philosophie, 17.68 (1910): 476-509. Print. Eng. trans. Thomistic Metaphysics and the Critique
of Knowledge. The author seeks a rapprochement between scholasticism and the philosophies of
Bergson and Blondel.
Pierre Rousselot. Ltre et lesprit. Revue de Philosophie, 16.1 (1910): 561-74. Print. Eng. trans.
Being and Mind. This item continues the authors essay in an earlier number of this journal,
1910.
Nathan Sderblom. Religionsproblemet inom Katolicism och Protestantism. Stockholm: Hugo Gebers
Verlag (1910): 518. Print. Ch. 7 of this work (pp. 136-61) is titled (in rought translation)

Philosophy of Action: Briefly Described, through Henri Bergson and Emile Boutroux. Or: a
Chapter on Voluntarist Mysticism. For a description of some main tenets of Bergsons
philosophy see pp. 154-58. For the influence of Lon Olle-Laprune on the young Bergson, see
p. 140. For comparisons of Bergsons philosophy with that of Vitalis Norstrm, see pp. 260-61,
409, 411.
Carlos Vaz Ferreyra. Lgica viva. Montevideo, Uruguay: Tip. de la Esquela N. de Artes y Officios
(1910): 217. Print. Eng. trans. Living Logic.
1911
Ren Berthelot. Un romantisme utilitaire. tude sur le mouvement pragmatiste. Vol. 1. Le pragmatisme
chez Nietzsche et chez Poincar. Paris: Alcan, 1911, 416. An English translation of the title of
this item is: A Utilitarian Romanticism. Study of the Pragmatist Movement. Vol. 1. Pragmatism
in Nietzsche and in Poincar.
Theodore Flournoy. Spiritism and Psychology. Trans. Herewad Carrington. New York: Harper and
Brothers (1911): 354. Print. The author notes, on pp. 272-73, a report of the Institute Gnral
Psychologique (Paris, 1908) signed by DArsonval, Bailet, Branley, P. Curie, Mme. Curie,
Bergson and others stating that the signatories have witnesses phenomena of levitation in the
person of Eusapia Palladino phenomena for which they are able to give no explanation.
Xavier Lon. Letter to E. Halvy. October 5, 1911 in Lettere a Xavier Lon e ad altri. Ed. R.
Ragghianti. Napoli: Bibliopolis (1992): 97n. Print. In this letter, Lon reports conversations with
Bergson. Bergson rewrote Lintuition philosophique (Philosophical Intuition) more than
twenty times and was still not satisfied with it. He writes so little because he abhors vacuous
generalizations and because he wishes to write with precision.
Jean Metzinger. Cubisme et tradition. Paris-Journal, 16 Aug. 1911. Print. Eng. trans. Cubism and
Tradition.
Ralph Barton Perry. Notes on the Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Journal of Philosophy, 8.26 (21 Dec.
1911): 713-21. Print. The author pursues a thoroughgoing criticism of Bergsons position, with
special emphasis on his irrationalism.
Gaston Rageot. Uchenye i filosophia. B. S. Bychkovskago. St. Petersburg: Izd. T-va Obschestvennaia
polza, (1911): 222. Biblioteka sovremennoi filosofii, 2. Print. Eng. trans. Teaching and
Philosophy.
Etienne Rey. M. Bergson et les Parisiennes. LOpinion, 25 Mar. 1911. Print. Eng. trans. Mr. Bergson
and Parisien Women.
Bertrand Russell. On the Relations of Universals and Particulars. Aristotelian Society Proceedings, N.S.
12 (1911-12): 1-24. Print. It was this talk that Bergson, who was at the 1911 meeting of the
Aristotelian Society, criticized Bertrand Russell for his too material treatment of Platonic
forms.

1912
Julien Benda. Une mprise sur lintuition bergsonienne. Revue du Mois, 7.5 (May 10, 1912): 575-80.
Print. Eng. trans. A Misunderstanding of Bergsonian Intuition.
B. Biegeleisen. Der Einfluss von H. Bergsons Philosofie auf die franzsische Literatur. Sphinx, MayJune, 1912. An English translation of the title of this item is: The Influence of Bergsons
Philosophy on French Literature.
Jean Bourdeau. Philosophie affective. Nouveaux courants et nouveaux problmes dans la philosophie
contemporaine. Descartes, Schopenhauer, William James, M. Bergson, Th. Ribot, Alf. Fouille,
Tolstoi et Lopardi. Paris: Alcan (1912): 180. Bibliothque de philosophie contemporaine. Print.
Eng. trans. Affective Philosophy: New Currents and New Problems in Contemporary Philosophy.
Emile Boutroux. William James. Trans. Archibald and Barbara Henderson. New York: Longmans, Green
(1912): vii, 126. Print. See pp. 83-86 for comparisons of James and Bergson.
Angelo Crespi. Lo spirit nella filosofia de Bergson: II. La metafisica bergsoniana. La Cultura
contemporenea, 6.4-5, 1912. An English translation of the title of this item is: The Spirit of
Bergsons Philosophy: II. Bergsons Metaphysics.
Lionel Dauriac. Quelques Rflexions sur la philosophie de M. H. Bergson. Anne Philosophique, 17
(1912): 55-72. Print. This is a penetrating study. The author compares Bergson with Kant and
Ried.
Adolphe Ferrire. La Science et la foi. Avec une prface de M. Thodore Flournoy et les apprciations
dun jury compos de MM. Henri Bergson, Allesandro Ciapelli (et) Giovanni Vidari.
Neuchtel: Delachaux et Niestl S.A. (1912): 67. Print. Eng. trans. Science and Faith. It contains
appreciations by, among others, Henri Bergson.
Jean Florence. Rponse J. Julien Benda. La Phalange, 20 Sept. 1912: 278-85. Print. Eng. trans. A
Reply to Julien Benda.
James J. Fox. An Attack on Bergson: A Defender of Science Assails the French Philosopher and
Waxes Contradictory in His Effort to Refute Him. New York Times, 9 June 1912: 354. Print.
Rev. of Modern Science and the Illusions of Professor Bergson by H. S. R. Elliot.
S. L. Frank. O filosofskoi intuitsii. Russkaia Misl, 33.3 (1912): 31-35. Print. Eng. trans. On
Philosophical Intuition.
Jane Ellen Harrison. Themis: A Study in the Social Origins of Greek Religion. Cambridge: The University
Press (1912): xxxii, 559. Print. See also Jane Ellen Harrison (1962) for annotation.
E. Hermann. The Relation of Bergsons Philosophy to Theological Thought. Homiletic Review, 64.5
(Nov. 1912): 344-48. Print. The author notes Bergsons agreement (in a personal letter to her)
with her treatment of his concepts of matter, spirit, and religion in Eucken and Bergson: I readily
accept, as a whole, what you say about the relation between the spiritualism of my doctrine and
religion (p. 345). Bergsons philosophy calls for a revision of our concept of God.
P. Iouchevitch. K sovremennomu vozrodeniju metafisiki: Anri Bergson i ego filosofija
antiintellektualizma in Mirovozzrenie i mirovozzrenija. St. Petersburg (1912): 25-51, 164-94.

Print. Eng. trans. Concerning the Contemporary Renaissance of Metaphysics: Bergson and His
Philosophical Anti-intellectualism.
F. B. Jevons. Motion and Change. Newcastle upon Tyne: Andrew Reid (1912): 127-52. Print. This essay
deals with the concepts of motion and the psychology of motion in Bergson. It is an excerpt from
the minutes of proceedings of the North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders,
Vol. 27, 1911-1912.
Auguste Joly. Le Futurisme et la Philosophie. II. Futurismo e la Filosofia. Print. This essay, presented
in both French and Italian, was published by the Direction du Mouvement Futuriste, Corso
Venezia, 61, Milan, Italy. It bears no date, but was taken from La Belgique artistique et littraire,
July, 1912. The author uses Bergsonian ideas to explore the nature of futurism. He cites Marinetti
as the paradigm of futurism-in-action. Eng. trans. Futurism and Philosophy.
Fiodor Koukliarskii. Osudennyj Mir: Filosofija elovekoboreskoj prirody. St.
Obshchestvennaia polza (1912): 235. Print. See Bergson i Personalism, 173-99.

Petersburg:

Henri Le Fauconnier. La sensibilit moderne et le tableau. De Kunst, 5 (Oct. 12, 1912): 22. Print. This
item was published in the catalogue of the Moderne Kunstring in Amsterdam. Eng. trans.
Modern Sensibility and the Tableau.
Melanchthon Fennessy Libby. The Continuity of Bergsons Thought. Boulder: U of Colorado (1912):
147-202. Colorado University Studies, Ser. A, Vol. 9, No. 4. Print.
Walter T. Marvin. A First Book in Metaphysics. New York: Macmillan (1912): xiv, 271. Print. The
author, a member of the school of American New Realists, proposes a temporalism of the causal
pluralist type, and cites Bergsons Time and Free Will and Creative Evolution. The author,
however, finds the source of evolution in chance and particularity, not the lan vital.
J. Middleton Murry. Bergson and the Coal Strike. T. P.s Weekly, 12 Mar. 1912: 357. Print. This is a
celebration of the contemporary coal strike in Great Britain. The author urges that this strike is
not merely an inconvenience, but marks the transition into a new era. In justifying this claim, he
points to the thought of Georges Sorel, The Apostle of Syndicalism, with its foundations in
Bergsons intuitionism. He asserts: We cannot harden the intimate life of a class, the class, of
society into a formula; we need an individual artistic expression for them, an aesthetic symbol,
and this symbol is the complete industrial war of producer against parasite, the general strike.
J. Middleton Murry. Mr. Middleton Murry Replies to Critics. T. P.s Weekly, 3 May 1912: 570. Print.
Here the author replies to criticisms of his celebration of the contemporary British coal strike in
the March 22, 1912, issue of T. P.s Weekly. Mr. Rock Publicman has seen that in his article the
author has not proposed a political viewpoint but merely described one. Mr. K. O. Samuel objects
that Bergsons is a theory of continuity, not revolution. The author replies that Bergsons is a
philosophy of discontinuity, of evolution in spasms. F. S. Kitchin accuses the author of
eulogizing Sorels views, but the author states that he has no desire to do so. Mr. Thompson
denies that Sorelian syndicalism is the logical outcome of Bergsonism; the author argues that it is.
Murry also holds that an intuitionist philosophy is absolutely untenable. Mr. de Tunzelman
argues that to saddle Bergsons philosophy with Sorels syndicalism is to reduce it to absurdity.
The author agrees. If Bergson believes in the social organism, Sorels politics follows.
Notes on the Philosophy of Bergson. National Review, 59 (Apr. 1912): 325-26. Print. This item might
be by R. B. Perry.

A. Ognev. Anri Bergson Materija i pamjat. Russkaja Mysl, 33.7 (1912): 257-59. Print. Rev. of
Russian translation of Matter and Memory.
Bertrand Russell. The Professors Guide to Laughter. Cambridgei Review, 18 Jan. 1912: 193-94. Print.
This is a review of Bergsons Laughter. Russell denies (since instances of laughter are
everywhere diverse) that a theory of laughter is possible.
Michal Sobeski. Interludia: z pograniza sztuki i filozofii. Krakow. Warszawa: G. Gebethner (1912): 219.
Print. Eng. trans. Interlude: From the Border of Art and Philosophy.
Jules Tannery. Science et philosophie. Prf. E. Borel. Paris: Alcan, 1912, xvi, 335. (Nouvelle Collection
scientifique) An English translation of the title of this item is: Science and Philosophy.
J. Arthur Thomson and Patrick Geddes. Evolution. London: Williams and Nordgate (1912): 256. Print.
See also pp. 204-07 for an appreciative discussion of Bergsons vitalism, his attempt to interrelate
philosophy and biology. See also pp. 208-09, 250.
1913
S. Davidenkof. En quoi consistent rellement les phnomnes de la ccit psychique ? LEncphale, 8.2
(1913): 428-35. Print. The author describes Bergsons mind-body theory as . . . trs plausible
pour le neurologiste, sur le rle prpondrant des phnomnes moteurs dans la comprhension
dun object et dans la reconnaissance. (. . . quite plausible for the neurologist, concerning the
preponderant role of motor phenomena in the comprehension of an object and in recognition.)
Eng. trans. What Do Phenomena of Psychical Blindness Really Consist Of?
S. L. Frank. Bergson. Vosprijatie izmencivosti; Psikho-fiziologiceskij paralogism. Russkaia Misl,
34.2 (1913): 49-52. Print. Rev. of The Perception of Change and The Psycho-Physiological
Paralogism by Henri Bergson.
S. L. Frank. Kriticheskoe obozrenie (Anri Bergson. Vospriatie izmenchivosti. Psikho-fiziologicheskii
paralogizm). Risskaia Misl, 34.2 (1913): 49-51. Print. Eng. trans. Critical Review (Henri
Bergson. The Perception of Change. The Psycho-Physical Paralogism).
Thomas John Gerrard. Bergson, Newman and Aquinas. Catholic World, 96.576 (Mar. 1913): 748-62.
Print. The author states: Here Newman sheds light which reveals to us at once the confusion of
Bergsons thought (p. 749).
John Gustavson. Henri Bergsons filosofi. Finsk tidskrift fr vitterhet, vetenskap, konst och politik, 74
(1913): 265-86. Print.
S. Herbert. The First Principles of Evolution. London: Adam and Charles Black (1913): viii, 346. Print.
In his last chapter the author, a follower of Herbert Spencer, examines Bergsons philosophy
which has given us, he states, for the first time a real philosophy of change (p. 318).
G. Dawes Hicks. The Nature of Willing. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 13, 1913, 27-65.
R.F.A. Hoernl. The Analysis of Volition: Treated as a Study of Psychological Principles and Methods.
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 13, 1913, 156-89.

John Landquist. Essayer: ny samling. Stockholm: Bonnier (1913): 420. Print. Eng. trans. Essays: New
Collection.
D. Lanna. Il problema della realit secondo un filosofia della contingenza. Rivista di Filosofia
Neoscolastica, 5 (1913): 179ff. Print. Eng. trans. The Problem of Reality According to a
Philosophy of Contingency.
N. O. Losski. Bergson. Birevye Vedomosti, 23 Dec. 1913: 5. Print.
Willy Lttge. Religion und Dogma. Ein Jahrhundert innerer Entwicklung im Franzsischen
Protestantismus. Erganzungsheft zur Zeitschrift fr Theologie und Kirche, 1913: 110-12. Print.
Eng. trans. Religion and Dogma. A Centurys Inner Development in French Protestantism.
Siegfried Marz. Die Philosophie Henri Bergsons. Nord und Sd, 145 (1913): 201-13. Print. Eng. trans.
Henri Bergsons Philosophy.
A. F. Sanborn. Sketch. Book News, 31 (Feb. 1913): 450-51. Print.
Prabhu-Datta Sstr. The Conception of Freedom in Hegel, Bergson and Indian Philosophy. Calcutta:
Albion Press (1913): 26. Print.
Roland D. Sawyer. A Note on Henri Bergson. New Review, 1.2 (11 Jan. 1913): 62. Print.
Max Scheler. Versuch einer Philosophie des Lebens. Die Weissen Bltter, 1, 1913-14, 203-33. An
English translation of the title of this item is: In Search of a Philosophy of Life. This item also
appears in Schelers Gesammelte Werke, III, 311-39.
Paul Schrecker. Die individual-psychologische Bedeutung der ersten Kindheitserinnerungen. Zbl.
Psychoanal. Psychother, 14 (1913-1914): 121-30. Print. See H. L. Ansbacher (1973) and P.
Schrecker (1973) for an English translation of this article and commentary. Eng. trans. The
Individual-Psychological Meaning of Early Childhood Memories. The author likens Bergson to
the psychoanalyst Alfred Adler.
Martin Schultze. Das Problem der Warheitserkenntnis bei William James und Henri Bergson. Erlangen:
Junge (1913): viii, 81. Print. This is the authors doctoral thesis at the U of Erlangen. Eng. trans.
The Problem of the Knowledge of Reality in William James and Henri Bergson.
Merle St. Croix Wright. Philosophical Discourses: A Selection from the Sermons Delivered at the Lenox
Avenue Unitarian Church, New York. New York: Unity Congregational Society, (1913): 25.
Print. This item concerns Bergson and R. Eucken.
Lizze Susan Stebbing. The Notion of Truth in Bergsons Theory of Knowledge. Proceedings of the
Aristotelian Society, 13, 1913, 224-56.
Evelyn Underhill. The Mystic Way: A Psychological Study in Christian Origins. London-Toronto: Dent
and Sons, 1913, 369.

1914
Emmanuel Mestres et Giralt. De philosophia bergsoniana. Barcinone: Eugenii Subirana (1914): 40. Eng.
trans. Bergsons Philosophy.
Kannanur Nryana Aiyar. Professor Bergson and the Hindu Vedanta. Adyar, Madras: Vasant Press
(1914): 35. Print. This is reprinted from The Theosophist, 35 (Apr.-June 1914).
Ren Benjamin. La Farce de lUniversit : La Prise de Berg-hop-son. Fantasio, 182 (1914): 481-82.
Print. Eng. trans. The Farce of the University: The Cost of Berg-hop-son.
Edouard Berth. Les Mfaits des Intellectuels. Lettre-Prface par Georges Sorel. Paris: Marcel Rivire
(1914): 333. Etudes sur le devenir social, XIII. Print. Hannah Arendt (1958) states that this work
is permeated with Bergsons ideas, and constitutes part of a Bergsonian school that idealizes
labor by equating it with fabrication. P. Soulez (Bergson politique [1989]: 334-36) also finds
Bergsonian ideas in Berth and other syndicalists. See also Sorel, pp. xv-xx; Berth, esp. pp. 30103n.
Umberto Boccioni. Dinamismo plastico. Il resto del Carlino, 20 Jan. 1914. Print. This essay is reprinted
in the authors Pittura scultura Futuriste (1914). Eng. trans. Plastic Dynamism.
Umberto Boccioni. Pittura scultura Futuriste: Dinamismo plastico. Milano: Edizioni futuriste di Poesia
(1914): 469. Print. This is a statement of the fundamentals of Italian futurism based on Bergsons
philosophy.
L. Brink. Rev. of The Meaning of God in Human Experience by William Ernest Hocking. The
Psychoanalytic Review, 1.4 (Oct. 1914): 472-79. Print. On p. 479 the reviewer contrasts
Bergsons concept of the unconscious mind with Hockings, holding that Bergsons is much truer
to fact: Not alone much simpler but more true to the fact is Bergsons picture of the unconscious,
an undivided whole, the vast deposit of the conscious life admitted beyond the portals of
consciousness only in so far as it is useful for our present purposes. As such a deposit, a product
of our conscious life it is a product of our character, too, but is not that character itself, which has
rather risen upon and beyond it.
Herbert Wildon Carr. The Philosophy of Change: A Study of the Fundamental Principles of the
Philosophy of Bergson. London: Macmillan (1914): 216. Print.
Daniel-Lesuer (pseud.?). M. Bergson a promis de venir. Gazette du bon ton, 3 (Mar. 1914): 30. Print.
The author notes that a fashionable couturier has produced a gown titled M. Bergson has
promised to come.
Daniel-Lesuer (pseud.?). M. Bergson et les femmes. Renaissance politique, littraire et artistique, 10
(17 Mar. 1914): 18-20. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and the Women.
Diopterophobia and so on. The Sun, 31 August 1914. Print. This is an editorial opposing Bergsons
interpretation of the causes of the First World War.
Albert Farges. La Philosophie de M. Bergson. 2d ed. Paris: Maison de la Bonne Press (1914): 490. Print.
Eng. trans. Bergsons Philosophy.

Agostino Gemelli. Henri Bergson und die italien Neuscholastik. Philosophisches Jahrbuch der GrresGesellschaft, 27 (1914): 441-60. Print. Eng. trans. Henri Bergson and the Italian
Neoscholastics.
I. Grossman. M. A. Bakounine i Bergson. Zavety, 5 (1914): 47-62. Print. Eng. trans. M.A. Bakunin
and Bergson.
John Hately. Philosophy of Bergson. M. A. Thesis, U of Toronto, 1914. Print.
Hermann Hesse. Hektor Berlioz Erinnerungen. Mrz, 8.3 (1914): 109-10. Print. Eng. trans. Hector
Berliozs Memories.
Constantin Hilpert. Die Unterscheidung der intuitiven Erkenntnis von Analyse bei Bergson. InauguralDissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwurde der Hohen Philosophischen Fakultat der FriedrichWilhelms-Universitt zu Breslau. Berlin: A. Schlicke (1914): 98. Eng. trans. Bergsons
Distinction Between Intuitive Knowledge and Analysis.
William Ernest Hocking. The Significance of Bergson. New Haven: Yale U Press (1914): 303-26. Print.
This item is reprinted from the Yale Review. The Louisiana State U Library contains a copy of
this item with marking and marginal notes by Rupert Brooke.
George Frederick Kingston. The Philosophy of Henri Bergson, Its Value. M.A. Thesis, U of Toronto
(1914).
Albert Lafontaine. La philosophie de Bergson. Alenon: Imprimerie Alenonnaise (1914): 25. Print. This
lecture was given in London before the College of Preceptors. Eng. trans. Bergsons Philosophy.
L. Liachkevitch. Rev. of Intuitivnaja Filosofija Bergsona by N. O. Losski. Zavety (Apr. 1914): 49. Print.
This item concerns N. O. Losskis Bergsons Intuitive Philosophy.
Arthur Liebert. Das Problem der Geltung. Berlin: Reuther and Reichard (1914): vi, 262. Kantstudien
Ergnzunghefte, 32. Print. Eng. trans. The Problem of Value. This work contains a section on
Bergson.
Fritz Mauthner. Die Philosophie und der Kreig. Berliner Tageblatt, 43 (1914): 2d supp., side 1-2. Print.
Eng. trans. Philosophy and the War.
Fritz Mauthner. Wer ist Henri Bergson? Berliner Tageblatt, 43 (1914). 2d supp., side 1-2. Print. Eng.
trans. Who is Henri Bergson?
Charles B. Mitchell. Bergson and Practical Idealism. New Review, 2.4 (Apr. 1914): 224-27. Print.
David Morrison. The Treatment of History by Philosophers. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society,
14, 1914, 291-321.
Edgar A. Mowrer. France To-Day: A Group of Thinkers. The Egoist, 1.1 (1 Jan. 1914): 6-8. Print. Rev.
of Le Matrialisme actuel (Paris, 1913), which contains an essay by Bergson.
Waihan Nomura. Bergson to gendai shicho. Tokyo: Daidokan, 1914: 63. Print.

Jean Piaget. Bergson et Sabatier. Revue chrtienne, 61, srie 4, 1914, 192-200. An English translation
of the title of this item is: Bergson and Sabatier. Print. The young Piaget here finds many
similarities between Bergson and A. Sabatier.
Valentino Piccoli. Bergson e Sorel. Utopia, 2.3-4 (15-28 Feb. 19140): 101-11. Print.
Charles Rappaport. The Intuitive Philosophy of M. Bergson. New Review, 2.3 (Mar. 1914): 132-42.
Print.
Georg Simmel. Bergson und der deutsche Zyrusmus. Internationale Monatsschrift fr Wissenschaft,
Kunst und Technik, 9.9, 1914, 197-99. An English translation of the title of this item is: Bergson
and German Cynicism.
Paul Souday. Les Livres du temps (2e srie). Paris: Emile-Paul Frres (1914): 524. Print. This item, a
highly critical survey of French writers circa 1914, contains several references to Bergson and
Bergsonism. In general the author is highly critical of Bergsons antiintellectualism (esp.
pp. 263-66, 337, 398-99). The author notes the Bergsonian tendencies of the young Andr Gide
(p. 194) and relates Bergson to Abel Hermant (p. 337), Lon Blum (p. 399), and Agathon
(pp. 263-64).
J. A. Thomson. Professor Henri Bergsons Biology. Zoological Studies of the University of Aberdeen,
Ser. 8 (1914): 125-38. Print. For annotation see J. A. Thomson (1916).
Evelyn Underhill. The Mystic Way: A Psychological Study in Christian Origins. London: J. M. Dent;
New York: E. P. Dutton (1914): 395. Print. This is a study of the place of mysticism in the
emergence of Christianity. The author anticipates many of Bergsons concepts of mysticism in
The Two Sources of Morality and Religion. See esp. Chs. 1 and 2.
Willhelm Wundt. ber den wahrhaften Krieg. Rede, gehalten in der Alberthalle zu Leipzig am 10
September 1914. Leipzig: Alfred Krner Verlag, 1914, 40. An English translation of the title of
this item is: Concerning the True War. Lecture Given in Leipzigs Albert Hall, September 10,
1914.
1915
Francis Bickley. Another Bergson Book. Rev. of Henri Bergson, A. Ruhe and N. M. Paul. Bookman,
4.280 (Jan. 1915): 129. Print. This article contains a photograph of Bergson by Gerschel, Paris.
Vas Choroko. Filosofija Bergsona s toki zrnija medika. Russkaia Misl, 36 (1915): 93-118. Print.
Eng. trans. The Philosophy of Bergson from the Point of View of a Doctor.
Charles Dawbarn. Makers of New France. New York: Pott (1915): xxi, 246; London: Mills and Boon
(1915): xv, 174. Print. Bergson is included here among sixteen other figures: generals, politicians,
writers, etc.
Lynn Harold Hough. The Quest for Wonder and Other Philosophical and Theological Studies. New
York: Abingdon Press (1915): 302. Print. This item contains an essay titled Bergson, as Seen
from a Preachers Study.

Auguste Keufer. Letter to Bergson. Jan. 25, 1915 in Auguste Comte et M. Bergson. Revue positiviste
internationale, 2 (15 Feb. 1915): 92-94. Also in Mlanges, pp. 1143-44. Print. The writer asks
Bergsons opinion of Auguste Comtes philosophy and its influence on sociology.
Richard Koebner. Referat ber Max Scheler. Rev. of Abhandlungen und Aufstze by Mak Scheler
(1915). Literarische Centralblatt, 66.47 (20 Nov. 1915): 1163-66; 48 (27 Nov. 1915): 1187-90.
Print.
Dominique Parodi. La Guerre et la conception allemande en morale. Revue Pdagogique (May 1915):
354-72. Print. For annotation see Dominique Parodi (1921). Eng. trans. The War and the
German Concept of Morality.
Francesco de Sarlo. Il significato filosofico dellevoluzione in Il pensiero moderne. Palermo: Sandron
(1915): viii, 411. Print. Eng. trans. The Philosophical Significance of Evolution.
Ichiro Tokutami. Beruguson. Tokyo: Minyusha Taisho 4 (1915): 379. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson.
1916
H. Bonke. Wrtliche bereinstimungen mit Schopenhauer bei Bergson. Jahrbuch der SchopenhauerGesellschaft, 5 (1916): 37-86. Print. Eng. trans. Verbal Agreements with Schopenhauer by
Bergson.
S. I. Gessen. Novyi opyt intuitivoj filosofii. Severmie Zapinski, (Apr.-May 1916): 222-37. Print. Eng.
trans. A New Way in Intuitive Philosophy.
Lee J. Levinger. The Philosophy of Henri Bergson and Judaism: With a Discussion by Louis L. Mann
(1916): 45 pp. Print. This item appears to be found only in the Princeton Theological Seminary
Libraries, Special Collections, Luce no. 250, noncirculating.
Jean Ajalbert. Comment glorifier les morts pour la patrie ? Opinions MM. A. Bernard, R. Boylesve, H.
Bergson Paris: G. Cres (1916): xvi, 111. Print. Eng. trans. How to Glorify Those Who Have
Died for Their Country? Opinions of H. Bergson.
Manuel Garca Morente. La filosofa de Henri Bergson: Con el discurso pronunciado por M. Bergson en
la Residencia de Estudiantes el 10 de mayo de 1916. Montevideo, Uruguay: C. Garca (1917):
150. Publicaciones de la Residencia de Estudiantes. Serie 2, v. 10. Print. Eng. trans. The
Philosophy of Henri Bergson: With the Talk Given by Mr. Bergson at the Students Residence,
May 10, 1916. This talk was part of a diplomatic mission to Spain by Bergson, in an attempt to
bring Spain into World War I.
Andrs Gonzlez-Blanco. La filosofa de Bergson. Nuestra tiempo, 16.2 (1916): 289-303. Print. Eng.
trans. The Philosophy of Bergson.
Wilhelm Hager. Bergson als Neu-Romantiker: mit besonderer Berucksichtung von M. Maeterlinck.
Munchen: A. Frohlich (1916): viii, 80. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson as a Neo-Romantic: With
Various Considerations Concerning M. Maeterlinck.

P. S. Popov. Bergson i ego kritiki in Georgiju Ivanoviu Celpanovu ot uasinikov ego seminarov v
Kieve i Moskve (1891-1916): Stati po filosofii i psihologii. Moscow (1916): 101-19. Print. Eng.
trans. Bergson and His Critics.
1917
H. Wildon Carr. The Interaction of Body and Mind, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 18 (19171918): 1-37. Print. This is the authors presidential address before the Aristotelian Society. Alfred
North Whitehead notes that he took Carrs concept of solidarity, as used in this talk, which is an
exposition of Bergsons mind-body theory. See pp. 26-35, The Solidarity of the Two Natures.
Thomas Stearns Eliot. Eeldrop and Appleplex. The Little Review, 4.1 (May 1917): 7-11; 5 (Sept. 1917):
16-19. Print.
Theodore Flournoy. The Philosophy of William James. Auth. trans. Edwin B. Holt and William James, Jr.
London: Constable, 1917: 246. Print. On pages 198-206 the author compares the philosophies of
William James and Henri Bergson, seeking to establish differences between them. Bergson has
monistic metaphysical aspirations that are anathema to James. (For a similar view, see H. M.
Kallen, 1914.)
Percy Heywood. The Religious Significance and Value of the Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Thesis.
University of Manitoba, 1917: 38. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Print.
E. Lavisse . Letter to Henri Bergson. January 1917. MAE papiers dagent Bergson 207, chem. I. Print.
In this second letter to Bergson, Lavisse notes that the United States possesses a terrible weapon
that it may use against the allies: credit. (See P. Soulez, Les Philosophes et la guerre de 14, 1988:
66.)
E. Lavisse . Letter to Henri Bergson. MAE papiers dagent Bergson 207, chem. I. Philippe Soulez notes
(in Les Philsophes et la guerre de 14. Saint-Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 1988:
66) that Lavisse relates to Bergson the desire of A. Briand to confer a diplomatic mission on
Bergson and to talk to him.
A. Seth Pringle-Pattison. The Idea of God in Recent Philosophy. The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the
University of Aberdeen in the Years 1912 and 1913. New York: Oxford University Press, 1917:
425. Print. See Lecture 19, Bergsonian Time and a Growing Universe, 366-85. The author, in
the course of providing an accurate account of Bergsons protest against the spatialization of
time, argues that Bergson falls into the very trap he has sought to avoid. Denying that the past can
account for the present, he holds that the present can determine the future. Bergson thinks that the
present is fatally and externally determining the future beforehand, in such a way as to
deprive future actions, when they occur, of their proper reality (p. 375). The author also
criticizes Bergsons teleology (pp. 378-79).
Ernest Seillre. LAvenir de la philosophie bergsonienne. Paris: Flix Alcan, 1917: 52. Eng. trans. The
Future of the Bergsonian Philosophy.
G. Semeria. Natura e genesi della metafisica di Henri Bergson. Revista di filsofia neoscolastica, 9.1
(1917): 97-102. Print. The author argues that Bergson raised certain of Claude Bernards ideas
into a metaphysical schema. Eng. trans. Nature and Genesis of Bergsons Metaphysics.

1918
Dwight Goddard. Love in Creation and Redemption: A Study in the Teachings of Jesus Compared with
Modern Thought. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1918: 278. Print. This item contains a section
on Bergson and the lan vital.
Marcel LHerbier. Hermes et le silence. Le Film, 110-111 (29 Apr. 1918): 7-12. Print. This item
concerns Bergson and motion pictures. It is translated in French Film Theory and Criticism: A
History/Anthology, vol. 2. Ed. and trans. R. Abel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988:
147-55. Print.
Giovanni Papini. . . . 24 cervelli; saggion critici. Milano: Studio editoriale lombardo, 1918: vii, 378.
Print. Eng. trans. Twenty-four Brains.
Jean Piaget. Recherche. Lausanne: Edition La Concorde, 1918: 210. Print. This is a novel, written by the
founder-to-be of genetic epistemology. It describes the struggles of a young French-Swiss
intellectual to resolve the antithesis of science and religion. In Part I, Chapters 6 and 7, the
protagonist, Sebastian, debates with himself the merits of three philosophies: positivism,
pragmatism, and Bergsonism, rejecting all three in favor of the creation of a new science of types,
similar to that of Aristotle. Bergsons unresolved oppositions are unsatisfactory, while his
intuition either reduces to inexpressible mysticism or an enlargement of the intelligence (in which
case it loses its special character).
Barakat Ullah. Professor Henri Bergsons Philosophy of Change. East and West, 17 (1918): 225-36.
Print.
1919
Mary Duclaux. Twentieth Century French Writers. London: Collins, 1919: 258. Print. See pp. 253-56 for
remarks on Bergson and Marcel Proust. Rpt. 1989.
Ren Gillouin. Ides et figures daujourdhui. Paris: Grasset, 1919: 267. Print. This contains an item titled
M. Henri Bergson, historien, politique et moralist. Eng. trans. Mr. Henri Bergson: Historian,
Political Thinker and Moralist.
Poul Helms. Fra Platon til Bergson. Copenhagen: MP Madsens Boghandel, 1919: 276. Print. Eng. trans.
From Plato to Bergson.
Xavier Lon. Letter to E. Halvy. March 3, 1919 in Lettere a Xavier Lon e ad altri. Ed. R. Ragghianti.
Napoli: Bibliopolis, 1992: 114-155n. Print. Lon writes in this letter that he has just had a long
conversation with Bergson concerning: 1. a plan to allow American students to take doctorates in
France; 2. the teaching of philosophy at the Sorbonne; 3. Franco-American relations and their
difficulties; 4 his need to write an intellectual autobiography.
Antonio Aleixo SantAnna Rodriguez. A dinmica do pensamnto. Lisbon: Tipografia do Anuario
Commercial, 1919. Eng. trans. The Dynamics of Thought. This is a thesis in psychology.
Raphael Seligmann. Individual und Ethos: Kurze Betrachtung ber Bergson. Probleme d. Judentums.
Wien: Lwit, 1919: 25-38. Print. Eng. trans. Individual and Ethos: A Brief Observation
Concerning Bergson.

J. Arthur Thompson. Secrets of Animal Life. New York: Henry Holt, 1919: 325. Print. On pp. 210-21 the
author agrees with Bergson that intelligent and instinctive behavior are on different evolutionary
tacks. On p. 230, he uses Bergsons dynamic metaphor of a current to express the continuity
of the genetic material. On pp. 257-58, he both critiques Bergsons treatment of evolutionary
convergence and concedes the difficulty of dealing with this phenomenon. See pp. 289-91 for a
similar discussion.
1920
Moselle Ashford. Bergsons Concept of Consciousness. Thesis. Clark U., 1920: 43. Worcester, MA.
Print.
Jacques Boulenger. Du ct de Marcel Proust. Opinion, 4 Dec. 1920: 631-34. Print. Eng. trans. On
Marcel Prousts Way. The author sees Prousts work as the best example of a Bergsonian
aesthetic.
Armando Carlini. Il Pensiero e la Vita. Giornale critico della filosofia italiana, 1 (1920): 377-93. Print.
Eng. trans. Thought and Life.
Ernst Robert Curtuis. Die Literarischen Wegbereiter des neuen Frankreich. Potsdam: G. Kiepenheuer,
1920: 290. Print. Eng. trans. Literary Pioneers of the New France.
Louis De Raeymaeker. Expos et rapprochement du systme de Ravaisson et des thories
bergsoniennes. Diss., KU Leuven, 1920: 72. Print. Eng. trans. Exposition and Reconciliation of
the System of Ravaisson and the Theories of Bergson.
Fed. Garca Godoy. Aspectos del bergsonismo. Cuba contemporanea, 24 (1920): 20-29. Print. Eng.
trans. Aspects of Bergsonism.
John Charlton Hardwick. Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson. London: Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1920: ix, 148. Print.
Helmuth Peter Holler. Bergsons Philosophy in the Light of Theomonism: An Appreciation and a Critique
for Students of Modern Philosophy and of Theomonism. Washington, DC: Oriental University
Book Concern, 1920: 15. Oriental University Progressive Studies, No. 1. Print. This is an address
delivered at the Society for Philosophical Inquiry, Washington, DC, 13 Apr. 1920.
R. F. Alfred Hoernl. Studies in Contemporary Metaphysics. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe,
1920: 314. Print. See especially A Note on Bergson and the Origin of Life, pp. 196-202. See
also p. 292.
Mariano Ibrico y Rodrguez. Bergson in Una Filosofa Esttica. Lima, Peru: San Martn y Cia., 1920:
xxi, 178. Biblioteca del mercurio peruana. Print.
Alexandre Mercereau. Les penses choisies dAlexandre Mercereau. Pref. Carlos Larronde. Paris: Eugne
Figuire, 1920: 209. Penseurs contemporains. Eng. trans. Selections From the Thoughts of
Alexandre Mercereau. Print.

Henry Clay Sheldon. Pantheistic Dilemmas and Other Essays in Philosophy and Religion. New York and
Cincinnati: The Methodist Book Concern, 1920: 358. Print. This item contains sections titled
Prominent Features in the Philosophy of Henri Bergson and The Notion of a Changing God.
Mustafa Sekip Tun. Bergson ve kudret-i ruhiyeye dair bir ka konferansi. Istanbul: Matbaa-i Amire,
1920: 203. Print.
1921
Marcel Boll. Attards et prcurseurs, propos objectifs sur la mtaphysique et la philosophie de ce temps
et de ce pays. Paris: E. Chiron, 1921: 283. Print. The Author deals with contemporary French
philosophy, including especially Bergson and Emile Boutroux.
Leopoldo Castellani. Henri Bergson frente a Kant y Santo Toms. Tribuna Catlica, 7.2 (1921): 190204. Print. Eng. trans. Henri Bergson Confronting Kant and Saint Thomas.
George Rostrevor Hamilton. Bergson and Future Philosophy. London: Macmillan, 1921: 152. Print.
Roman Ingarden. Intuition und Intellect bei Henri Bergson. Darstellung und Versuch einer Kritik.
Freiburg, philosophy dissertation, 1921: 98. Print. The authors dissertation was completed in
1918, but not officially accepted until 1921. Eng. trans. Intuition and Intellect in Bergson.
Presentation and Attempt at a Critique. This is an important essay on Bergsons epistemology by
a prominent member of the phenomenological school.
Xavier Lon. Letter to E. Halvy. June 13, 1921 in Lettere a Xavier Lon e ad altri, R. Ragghianti, ed.
Napoli: Bibliopolis, 1992: 131n. Print. This letter concerns Bergsons high opinion of Alfred
North Whitehead and of H. W. Carr.
Dominique Parodi. Le Problme moral et la pense contemporaine. 2d ed. Rev. and aug. Paris: Flix
Alcan, 1921: 301. Print. See La Guerre et la conception allemande en morale, 247-67. On
pp. 248-52 the author describes Bergsons interpretation of the First World War. German
aggression stems not from scientist mechanism, he argues against Bergson, but from a mystical
notion of history and war. French love of clarity and distinction and German insistence on
complexity and profundity are destined to correct and complete each other. Eng. trans. The Moral
Problem and Contemporary Thought.
Jean Piaget. Essai sur quelques aspects du dveloppement de la notion de partie chez lenfant. Journal
de psychologie normale et pathologique, 18 (1921): 449-80. Print. The author states:
Tachistoscopic experiments and the analyses of M. Bergson have shown that sentences are not
read and understood in detail, but in one inspection. In this regard, the phenomena of the
limitation of the field of attention are fundamental: it is in part thanks to them that we have been
able to characterize the three stages of our classification.
Woodbridge Riley. Le Gnie amricain. Penseurs et hommes daction. Trans. E. Lenoir. Pref. Henri
Bergson. Paris: Flix Alcan, 1921: iv, 177. Bibliothque de philosophie contemporaine. Print.
Eng. trans. The American Genius: Thinkers and Men of Action.
Georges Sorel. De lutilit du pragmatisme. Paris: M. Rivire, 1921: 471. Etudes sur le devenir social.
Print. This work contains a critique of Bergsons Creative Evolution. Eng. trans. On the Utility of
Pragmatism.

Albert Thibaudet. Rflexions sur la littrature. Psychanalyse et critique. Nouvelle Revue franaise, 16.4
(Apr. 1921): 467-81. Print. Throughout the author compares Bergsons views with Freuds,
arguing that les thories de Freud sclairent singulirement la lumire de Matire et
Mmoire. p. 469. He speculates whether, if Bergson had been allowed to teach at the Sorbonne,
he would have had disciples as does Freud, and a journal for research inspired by his method.
Adriano Thilgher. Voci del tempo. Profili di letterati e filosofi contemporanei. 1st ser. Roma: Libreria di
scienze e lettere, 1921: 223. Print. This item contains a brief essay on the aesthetics of Bergson.
Eng. trans. Voices of Time: Profiles of Contemporary Literature and Philosophy.
1922
Ren Berthelot. Un romantisme utilitaire. tude sur le mouvement pragmatiste. Vol. 3. Le pragmatisme
religieux chez William James et chez les catholiques modernistes. Paris: Alcan, 1922, 428. Eng.
trans. A Utilitarian Romanticism. Study of the Pragmatist Movement. Vol. 3. Religious
Pragmatism in William James and in Catholic Modernists.
Ludwig Binswanger. Einfhrung in die Probleme der allgmeinen Psychologie. Berlin: Springer, 1922,
viii, 383. In this introduction to general psychology the author (in relation to Bergsons follower
Eugene Minkowski, a founder of phenomenological psychiatry) makes many statements
concerning Bergson and psychology/psychiatry.
Albert Einstein on Bergson. Gestern lass ich in Bergsons Buch ber Relativitt und Zeit. Merkwrdig
dass ihm nur die Zeit aber nicht auch der Raum problematisch ist. Er scheint mir mehr
sprachliches Geschick als psychologische Tiefer zu haben. Bei der Objektivierung des psychischGegebenen macht er sich wenig Skrupel. Er scheint aber die Realtivitts-Theorie sachlich zu
begreifen und setzt sich mit ihr nicht in Gegensatz. Die Philosophen tanzen bestndig um den
Gegensatz Psychisch-Real und Physikalisch-Real herum und unterscheiden sich nur durch
Wetungen in dieser Beziehung. Entweder erscheint ersteres als blosses Individualerlebnis oder
letzteres als blosse Gedankenkonstruktion. Bergson gehrt zur letzteren Gattung, objektiviert
aber unvermerkt in seiner Weise. (No. 29-131 in the Einstein Control Index.) Eng. trans.
Yesterday I immersed myself in Bergsons book on relativity and time. Amazingly, he considers
time, but not space, to be problematic. He seems to me to possess more linguistic facility than
psychological depth. He does not hesitate to objectivize the psychologically-given. But he seems
to really (sachlich) understand relativity theory and not to put himself in contradiction to it. The
philosophers deal (tanzen) constantly here with the contrast between psychologically-real and
physically-real and in this respect distinguish themselves only through what they value. Either the
first appears as mere individual experience or the second as mere thought-construction.
Bergsons views are of the latter sort, he objectivizes in his own way without realizing it. Trans.
Pete A. Y. Gunter. No. 29-131 in the Einstein Control Index (Collected papers of Albert
Einstein). 10/9/1922. Print.
Ren Gillouin. La tradition philosophique et la pense franaise. Paris: Flix Alcan, 1922: ii, 358. Print.
See Ch. 12, Bergson. Eng. trans. The Philosophical Tradition and French Philosophy.
Julius Goldstein. Aus Dem Vermachtnis des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Berlin: C. A. Schwetschke, 1922:
104. Print. The author deals with F. Schiller, W. James, and Bergson. Eng. trans. Out of the
Legacy of the Nineteenth Century.

Franois Jean Desthieux. LIncroyable Einstein : ses thories scientifiques et leurs consquences de
Leibniz Bergson, une mtaphysique nouvelle. Paris: Editions du Carnet-Critique, 1922: 52.
Print. See Ch. 4, Devant les Philosophes : de Leibniz M. Bergson, pp. 30-44. The author, who
concedes that he is neither a mathematician nor a physicist, notes the opposition of both Leibniz
and Bergson to Newton, and professes amazement that Bergson should believe that Einstein has
corroborated some of his own ideas. In general science is correct, while philosophers merely
fabricate.
Xavier Lon. Letter to E. Halvy. November 24, 1922 in Lettere a Xavier Lon e ad altri, R.
Ragghianti, ed. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 1992: 138-39n. Print. In this letter, Lon reports the
essentials of a long discussion with Bergson concerning an article in the Revue de Mtaphysique
et de Morale concerning Bergsons mind-body theory by E. Forti (1923). Fortis article contains
grave misinterpretations of Bergsons position.
Arthur Liebert. Henri Bergson. Stuttgart: Franck, 1922: 70-86. This is an extract from
Philosophiebchlein, vol. 1, 1922; Print.
Jacques Maritain. Antimoderne. Paris: Edit. de la Revue des Jeunes, 1922: 247. Print. Eng. trans.
Antimodern.
George Simmel. Zur Philosophie der Kunst, Philosophie und Kunstphilosophie. Ed. Gertrud Simmel.
Potsdam: G. Kiepenheuer, 1922: 173. Print. This item contains an essay, Bergson, first
published in 1914. Eng. trans. On the Philosophy of Art: Philosophy and the Philosophy of Art.
A. Spaier. Problmes mtaphysiques de la mmoire. Revue Philosophique de la France et de
lEtranger, 94 (July-Dec. 1922): 444-82. Print. Eng. trans. Metaphysical Problems of Memory.
Ernst Troeltsch. Der historismus und seine Probleme. Tbingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1922: 777. Print. This is
vol. 3 of the authors collected works. He refers to Bergson on pp. vii-viii, 10, 528, 559-65, 63032, 677. Bergson alone has responded to the great challenge of contemporary thought by
providing a pure analysis of movement free from all prejudices of rationalism. Eng. trans.
Historicism and its Problems.
J. Wiegand. Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung. Kln: H. Schaffstein, 1922: 180. Print. Bergson and
irrationalism are discussed here on pp. 431-32. See also p. 448. Eng. trans. History of German
Poetry.
1923
Chih-hsiu Ch`ien. Po-ko-hsun yu Ou-ken. Shanghaie: Shang wu yin shu kuan, Min kuo 12 (1923): 102.
Tung. fang wen k`u. ti 39 chung. Print. This item is a study of the views of Bergson and R.
Euken.
Cristbal de Losada y Puga. Bergson y Einstein. Mercurio peruano, 6.10 (1923): 641-50. Print. Eng.
trans. Bergson and Einstein.
Thom H. Fang. A Critical Exposition of the Bergsonian Philosophy of Life. Masters thesis,
University of Wisconsin at Madison. 1923. Print. The author was to become a leading Chinese
philosopher who used Bergsons ideas to build a bridge between Eastern and Western thought.
For an account of the factors underlying the writing of this thesis, see Thom H. Fang, 1981.

Kurt Hildebrandt. Medizin und Philosophy. Monatsschrift fr Psychiatrie und Neurologie, 53.1, 1923,
39-52. An English translation of the title of this item is: Medicine and Philosophy.
Beatrice M. Hinkle. The Re-creating of the Individual: A Study in Psychological Types and their
Relations to Psychoanalysis. London: Allen and Unwin, 1923: xiii, 465. Print. The author notes
of C. G. Jung: He saw in the term libido a concept of unknown nature, somewhat similar to
Bergsons lan vital, a hypothetical energy of life, which is manifested not only in sexuality and
the reproductive function but also in various physiological and psychological processes (p. 23).
The author was a translator and associate of Jung.
Cyril Edward Mitchinson Joad. The Problem of Free Will in the Light of Recent Developments in
Philosophy. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 23, 1923, 121-40.
G. Lovtskii. Vremia Einshteinia i dlitelnost Bergsona. Sovremennye zapiski, 14 (1923): 417-23. Print.
Eng. trans. Einsteinian Time and Bergsonian Length.
Herman Platz. Geistige Kmpfe im moderner Frankreich. Mnchen: J. Kosel & F. Pustet, 1922: xix, 672.
Print. The author describes Bergson as playing an important role in these struggles. Eng. trans.
Spiritual Struggles in Modern France.
J. Y. T. Greig. The Psychology of Laughter and Comedy. London: G. Allen & Unwin; New York: Dodd,
Mead, 1923: 304. Print. The author refers to Bergson throughout and discusses Bergsons theory
of laughter in an appendix.
Enrico Leone. Anti-Bergson. Napoli: La luce del pensiero, 1923: 249. Print.
William Nathanson. Kultur un tzivilization. Chicago: Farlag Neue Gesellschaft; New York: Hoypt
Farkoyg, Maks. N. Mayzels Farlag, 1923: 46. Nay sotsyalizm. Print. This work contains
reflections on Bergson and Spinoza. Eng. trans. Culture and Civilization.
William Nathanson. Spinoza un Bergson: a paralel. Shikago: Farl Naye Gezelshaft, 1923: 46. Print. Eng.
trans. Spinoza and Bergson: A Parallel.
Gunnar Gabriel Oxensteirna. De antithesen in de philosophie van Henri Bergson. Haarlem: Kleijnberg,
1923: viii, 153. Print. Eng. trans. Antitheses in Bergsons Philosophy.
Jean de Pierrefeu. Plutarque a menti. Paris: B. Grasset, 1923: 350. Print. The author asserts that French
military leadership circa 1914 used Bergsons philosophy to protect itself from a rationalistic
critique. Eng. trans. Plutarch lied. This work appeared in English in 1924.
J. Rogues de Fursac and Eugene Minkowski. Contribution ltude de la pense et de lattitude autistes
(Le Rationalisme morbide). LEncphale, 18.4 (1923): 217-28. Print. This is a Bergsonian
analysis of a case of morbid rationalism. The patients neurosis stems, the authors contend,
from an attempt at complete personal isolation from his personal and physical milieu. This project
is based on two factors, lattitude antithtique (an enforcement of strict antitheses: yes/no,
good/evil) and lgocentrisme actif (making the self the field of ones actions). The patients
symptoms derive, the authors state, from failure to participate with his surroundings, and hence
with himself. He is abstracted from himself to the point of illness. Eng. trans. A Contribution to
the Study of Autistic Thought and Attitude (Morbid Rationalism).

1924
Henri Bergson. Qui tes-vous ? Ed. G. Ruffy. Paris: Maison Ehret, 1924: 64. Print.
Ren Lalou. Contemporary French Literature. Trans. W. A. Bradley. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924:
402. Print. For Bergsons sometimes puzzling influence on C. Pguy, see pp. 200-07. See also
Intelligence and Intuition (pp. 340-44) for Bergson and G. Sorel, J. Benda, Andr Surez. The
author discusses M. Proust without reference to Bergson.
Zygmunt Mystakowski. Intuicjonizm Bergsona, Krakow, 1924. This was the authors doctoral thesis,
Warsaw, 1924. An English translation of the title of this item is: Bergsons Intuitionism.
William Nathanson. Spinoza and Bergson. Guardian, 1 (1924): 47-48, 81-84, 117-22. Print.
Jean de Pierrefeu. Plutarch Lied. Trans. Jeffery E. Jeffery. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924: viii, 307.
Print. See Ch. III, Joffre and Co., or, the Plot of a Bergsonian General Staff and Ch. IV, Plan
No. 17 in Application, or, Bergson versus Lanrezac (pp. 31-70).
Eleonore Rapp. Die Marionette in der deutschen Dichtung vom Sturm und Drang bis zur Romantik.
Leipzig: Lehmann und Schlppel, 1924: 63. Print. Eng. trans. Marionettes in German Poetry
from Sturm und Drang to the Romantics.
Albert Edward Baker. How to Understand Philosophy, from Socrates to Bergson. London: Hodder and
Stoughton, 1925: 189. Hodder and Stoughtons Peoples Library. Print.
1925
Ernst Robert Curtuis. Franzsischer Geist im Neuen Europa. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1925:
371. Print. This study of French culture includes studies of M. Proust, P. Valry, V. Larbaud, and
of Bergson. Eng. trans. French Spirit in the New Europe.
S. Edwards. The Function of Laughter. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1926: 11 pp. Print. This
item appeared originally in Psyche, 23 (Jan. 1926).
Vladimir Janklvitch. Les thmes mystiques dans la pense russe contemporaine in Mlanges publis
en lhonneur de Paul Boyer. Paris: Institut dtudes slaves, 1925: 331-61. Print. For annotation
see the author, 1994. Eng. trans. Mystical Themes in Contemporary Russian Thought.
Ren Lalou. Histoire de la littrature franaise contemporaine (1870 nos jours). Ed. rev. and aug.
Paris: G. Crs, 1925: xi, 779. For annotation see the author, 1924. Eng. trans. History of
Contemporary French Literature (1870 to our Time).
Constantin von Monakow. The Emotions, Morality and the Brain. Trans. G. Barnes and S. E. Jelliffe.
New York: Nervous & Mental Disease Pub., 1925: 25. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph
Series, 39. Print.
Bernhard Fehr. James Joyces Ulysses. Englisched Studien, 60 (1925-1926): 180-205. Print. See
pp. 192-93. The author urges Bergsons influence on Joyces concepts of space and time.

Etienne Souriau. Pense vivante et perfection formelle. Paris: Hachette, 1925: xvi, 308. Print. This essay
marks the beginning of the reaction against Bergsonian aesthetics in France. It stresses the
formal aspects of art over and against the vital.
Johannes Thyssen. Henri Bergson und die deutsche-Philosophie der Gegenwart. Klnische Zeitung,
1925. Print. Eng. trans. Henri Bergson and Contemporary German Philosophy.
Johannes Volkelt. Phnomenologie und Metaphysik der Zeit. Munich: C. H. Beck, 1925: 200. Eng. trans.
Phenomenology and Metaphysics of Time.
1926
V. F. Asmous. Advocat filosofskoj intuicii. Pod Znamenen Marksizma, 26.3 (1926): 53-84. Print.
Republished by the author in 1984. Eng. trans. An Advocat of Philosophical Intuition.
Boniface Badrov. La Notion de vie daprs Bergson. Sarajevo: Stamparski Zavod, D.D., 1926: 85. Thesis,
University of Fribourg. Print. Eng. trans. The Notion of Life in Bergson.
Henri Bermond. La Posie pure ; avec un dbat sur la posie, par Robert de Souza. Paris: B. Grasset,
1926: 318. Print. The author cites Bergson as his authority (pp. 116-17, 296-301). Eng. trans.
Pure Poetry.
Jacques Chevalier and Henri Bouyer. De limage lhallucination. Comment se perd le sens du rel.
Journal de Psychologie Normale et Pathologique, 23 (15 Apr. 1926): 439-55. Print. Eng. trans.
From Image to Hallucination: How the Sense of the Real is Lost.
S. Edwards. The Function of Laughter. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1926: 11 pp. Reprinted
from Psyche, 23 (Jan. 1926).
Julian Huxley. Essays of a Biologist. London: Chatto & Windus, 1926: 311. Print. See American edition,
1929.
Eugne Bernard Leroy. Les Visions du demi-sommeil. Paris: Flix Alcan, 1926: xv, 131. Print. On pp. 5759 the author cites Bergsons theory of the weakening of attention to life to explain
hypnagogic visions. Eng. trans. Visions of Semi-Sleep.
Wyndham Lewis. The Art of Being Ruled. London: Chatto & Windus, 1926: 450. Print. The author
depicts Charles Pguy as the hopeless dupe of Bergson (pp. 391-93).
Alfred Loisy. Religion et humanit. Paris: E. Nourry, 1926: 206. Print. See pp. 186-88 for a criticism of
passages in Creative Evolution. Bergson notes these interesting criticisms in a letter to Loisy,
Apr. 27, 1926. Eng. trans. Religion and Humanity.
Charles Maurras and J.-P. Godme. La bagarre de Fustel. Paris: Librairie de France, 1926: 190. Print. This
celebration of the history of the right-wing Action franaise. It contains a negative assessment of
Henri Bergson. Eng. trans. The Fight of Fustel.
Jrme and Jean Tharaud. Notre cher Pguy. Genve: La Palatine; Paris: Librairie Plon, 1926: 324. Print.
This is a personal, chatty, sometimes very moving account of Charles Pguys milieu and
personal life. It includes several interesting references to Pguy and Bergson: to Bergsons

influence on Pguy, G. Sorel and J. Maritain, pp. 220-21; to Bergson, Pguy and Catholicism,
pp. 320-26; to Pguy, J. Benda and G. Sorel, pp. 270-73. Eng. trans. Our Dear Pguy.
Gladys Rosaleen Turquet-Milnes. From Pascal to Proust: Studies in the Genealogy of a Philosophy.
London: Cape Ltd., 1926: 192. Print.
Nicolas Sgur. Le gnie europen : J.-J. Rousseau, Taine, Bergson, Anatole France Paris: Bibliothque
Charpentier, 1926: 288. Print. Eng. trans. The European Genius: J. J. Rousseau, Taine, Bergson,
Anatole France
Jan Christian Smuts. Holism and Evolution. New York: Macmillan, 1926: 362. See pp. 92-102: Where
Bergson seems to me to have gone wrong is his impoverishment of the creative principle by
reducing it to the bare empty form of Duration (p. 95). See pp. 99-100 for a similar critique of
lan vital as empty of specific content: mere form.
Eugne Minkowski. La Notion de perte de contact vital avec la ralit et ses applications en
psychopathologie. Paris: Jouve, 1926: 76. Print. This work, the authors thesis, is dedicated to
Bergson and E. Bleuler. Eng. trans. The Notion of Loss of Contact with Reality and its
Applications in Psychopathology.
John S. Zybura, Ed. Present-Day Thinkers and the New Scholasticism: An International Symposium.
Intro. J. Cavanaugh. St. Louis and London: B. Herder Book, 1926: 543. Print. This anthology
contains various remarks on Bergsons philosophy (notably by W. E. Hocking, p. 10, and J.
Maritain, p. 186). Most are negative.
1927
A. Baillot. Influence de la philosophie de Schopenhauer en France (1860-1900). Paris: Librairie
philosophique Vrin, 1927, viii, 358. Eng. trans. The Influence of Schopenhauers Philosophy in
France.
Julien Benda. La Trahison des clercs. Paris: B. Grasset, 1927: 306. Cahiers Verts, 6. Print. Eng. trans.
Treasonous Clerks.
Henri Bergson. New International Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., vol. 3 (1927): 168. Print.
Andr Ceillier. Recherches sur lautomatisme psychique. LEncphale, 2.4 (1927): 272-97. Print. In
this talk, presented at the Socit de Psychiatrie de Paris, the author attacks mechanistic theories
of mental illness, arguing that even in those cases in which illness is physiologically based, the
elaboration of the illness is mental in nature. The authors position is very much like that of
Bergson in Matter and Memory: mental illness involves the enfeebling of the will and of the
capacity to focus attention effectively, with a consequent loss of personal unity, flexibility,
creativity. Personality thus descends from mental health to mental automatism. The author
refers to Bergson on pp. 274, 275, 279, 283, 286, 291, 297. The author portrays himself as, in
most respects, a follower of M. Sglas.
Adolphe Ferrire. Le Progrs spirituel. Geneva: Edition Forum, 1927: 364. Print. See Chs. 8 and 9, The
Liberation of the Spirit and The Elan Vital of God. Eng. trans. Spiritual Progress.

Katherine Gilbert. Studies in Recent Aesthetic. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1927:
178. Print. See Bergsons Penal Theory of Comedy, pp. 62-88.
Friedrich von Hgel. Selected Letters, 1896-1924. Ed. Bernard Holland. London: J. M. Dent; Newton: E.
P. Dutton, 1927: vii, 377. Print. In 1900 Hgel wrote to George Tyrrel, urging him to read
Bergsons Essai sur les donnes immdiates de la conscience (Time and Free Will): His
distinction has got bodily in my head and heart, and into my attempted presentation of St.
Catharine (p. 87). Bergson and Hgel met in April, 1907 (p. 148). See von Hgel, 1908.
Charles Mauron. Concerning Intuition. Trans. T.S. Eliot. The Criterion, 6.3 (1927) 229-35. Print.
Daniel Mornet. Histoire de la littrature et de la pense franaises contemporaines (1870-1927). Paris:
Bibliothque Larousse, 1927: 263. Print. The author cites Bergson from his critique of
intelligence (pp. 38-39), his treatment of the unconscious (p. 92), and his philosophical influence
(pp. 107-08).
Alf Hyman. Einstein-Bergson-Vaihinger: ein Abwgunsversuch. Leipzig: Meiner, 1927: 26. Print. Eng.
trans. Einstein-Bergson-Vaihinger: A Balanced Study.
Beatrice Watson. Prousts Bergsonism. Thesis. University of Chicago, 1927. Chicago. Print.
1928
Ramn Fernndez. Note sur lesthtique de Proust. La Nouvelle Revue franaise, 15.179 (Aug. 1, 1928)
272-80. Print. The author asserts that Prousts aesthetic is, in its philosophical content, directly
opposed to Bergsons. Rpt. R. Fernndez, 1989.
Lon Fredericq. Henri Bergson et lintensit des sensations. Lige, Belgium: H. Vaillant, Carmanne,
1928: 419-22. Print. This is an offprint from the Archives Internationales de Physiologie, 1928.
Eng. trans. Henri Bergson and the Intensity of Sensations.
John Landquist. Henri Bergson: en popular framstllning av hans filosofi. Stockholm: Albert Bonnier,
1928: 105. Bonniers sm handbcker i vetenskapliga aemnen. Print. Eng. trans. Henri Bergson: A
Popular Presentation of His Philsophy.
Jean Laporte. La Mtaphysique bergsonienne et lexprience mystique. Revue de France, 8.24 (Dec.
15, 1928): 725-33. Print. Eng. trans. The Bergsonian Metaphysics and Mystical Experience.
Edouard Le Roy. Bergson. Trans. Carlos Rahola. Barcelona: Labor, 1928: 204. Labor, 157, Sec. I,
Ciencias filosficas. Print.
Lon Pierre-Quint. Marcel Proust, Sa Vie, Son uvre. 2nd ed. Paris: Simon Kra, 1928: 386. Les
documentaires. Print. Contains Le Comique et le mystre chez Proust and fragments of
unpublished Proust correspondence.
Maurice Pradines. Letter to Henri Bergson. March 16, 1928 in Etudes philosophiques, 4 (Oct.-Nov.
1993): 437. Print. This letter accompanies a copy of Pradiness Problme de la sensation.
Pradines states that though this work contains criticisms of Bergsons views, he feels that he owes
half of his philosophy to him. The quarrel between Bergsonian and non-Bergsonian viewpoints
leaves a deep mark on this work.

Maurice Pradines. Notes Appended to Bergsons Letter of March 24, 1928 in Etudes philosophiques, 4
(Oct.-Dec., 1993): 438. Print. Pradines remarks here that Bergson, though he understands that
sensation is objective, believes that the human mind can enter sensation only by degrading and
materializing itself. Pradines strongly denies this thesis.
Jean Prvost. Le Bergsonisme. Europe, 18 (1928): 585-600. Eng. trans. Bergsonism. Print.
Charles Richet. Notre sixime sens. Paris: Editions Montaigne, 1928: 253. Print. This study of psi
phenomena is dedicated to Bergson. Eng. trans. Our Sixth Sense.
Charles Richet. Our Sixth Sense. Trans. Fred Rothwell. London: Rider, 1928: 227. Print. This study of
psi phenomena is dedicated to Bergson.
Georges Sorel. De lutilit du pragmatisme. 2nd ed. Paris: M. Rivire, 1928: 471. Etudes sur le devenir
social. Print. This work contains a critique of Bergsons Creative Evolution. Eng. trans. On the
Utility of Pragmatism.
William Morton Wheeler. Emergent Evolution and the Development of Societies. New York: W. W.
Norton, 1928: vii, 80. Print. See pp. 40-41 for a critique of vitalism, including Bergsons.
1929
V. F. Asmus. Estetika Bergsona. Na literaturnum, Postu, 4.2 (1929) 4-18. Print. Eng. trans. Bergsons
Aesthetics.
M. Dide. Variations psychopathiques de lintuition dure-tendue. Journal de Psychologie Normale et
pathologique, 26 (1929): 410-24. Print. This is an analysis (prefaced by a reference to Bergson)
of psychological problems involved in judging spatial extent, temporal extent and both spatial and
temporal location. The fundamental basis of all such judgments, he argues, is the patients
difficulty in combining the abstract concepts of space-time successfully with the personal
experience of duration-extensity. The author cites both psychiatric and neurophysiological
factors. Eng. trans. Psychopathological Variations of the Intuition Duration-Extensity.
Gerardo Diego. La nueva arte potica espaola. Sntesis, 20, 1929, 183-208. An English translation of
the title of this item is: The New Poetic Art of Spain.
Andr Gide. Travels in the Congo. Trans. Dorothy Bussy. New York: Knopf, 1929: 375. Print. The author
states: I have just finished a small book by Cresson: Position actuelle des problmes
philosophiques. His exposition of Bergsons philosophy convinces me that I have long been a
Bergsonian without knowing it. There are no doubt pages in my Cahiers de Andr Walter which
might even be thought directly inspired by LEvolution creatrice, if the dates allowed of it. I
greatly mistrust a system that comes so pat in response to the tastes of the period and owes a great
part of its success to flattering them (p. 33).
Amanda Labarca Hubertson. Vinos viejos. Repertorio Americana, 20 (June 1929): 270. Print. The
author draws parallels between classicism and romanticism in literature and the philosophical
schools of Bergson and Spengler, Windelband, Mach, and Vaihinger. Eng. trans. Old Wines.

Mariano Ibrico. El viaje del espritu. Humanidades, 19.1 (1929): 76-91. Print. Bergson is discussed
here on pp. 84-89. Print. Eng. trans. The Voyage of the Spirit.
douard Le Roy. Continu et discontinu dans la matire : le problme du morcelage. Cahiers de la
nouvelle journe, 20, 1929, 135-65. Eng. trans. Continuity and Discontinuity in Matter: The
Problem of Division.
Gabriel Marcel. Notes sur les limites du spiritualisme bergsonien. Vie intellectuelle, 1 (10 Nov. 1929).
Print. Eng. trans. Notes on the Spiritual Limits of Bergsonism.
P. J. de Castro-Nery. Problema sceptico a entrada da gnoseologia: Bergson. So Paul: Sp. Ed. Limitada,
1929: 487. Print. Eng. trans. A Sceptical Problem in the Foundations of Knowing Wisdom:
Bergson.
Gabriel Marcel. Notes et rflexions: Note sur les limites du spiritualisme bergsonien. Vie intellectuelle,
10 Nov. 1929: 267-70. Print. Eng. trans. Notes and Reflections: Notes on the Limits of
Bergsons Spiritualism.
Ramani Kanto-Sur. An Experimental Investigation of Memory of School Children: With Special
Reference to Bergsons Theory. Thesis. University of Leeds, 929: ii, 63, 23. Leeds, UK. Print.
Albert Thibaudet. Henri Bergson. Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th ed., vol. 3 (1929): 435. Print.
1930
E. Carton de Wiart. M. Maritain et le bergsonisme. Vie Intellectuelle, 9 (1930): 63-68. Print. Eng. trans.
Mr. Maritain and Bergsonism.
Josef Bene. O vznamu filosofie Bergsonovy. Cesk mysl, 26 (1930): 1-18, 108-20, 205-19. Print.
Eng. trans. Concerning the Significance of Bergsons Philosophy.
Androusos Chrestos. Tolstoe, Nitse, Mpergson. Athens: I.L. Aleuropoulos, 1930: 93. Print. Eng. trans.
Tolstoi, Niezsche, Bergson.
Henri Delacroix. Le Langage et la pense. Paris: Flix Alcan, 1930: 624. Print. Bergson is discussed on
p. 449. Eng. trans. Language and Thought.
George Gurvitch. Lintuitionisme motionel de Max Scheler in Les Tendances actuelles de la
philosophie allemande: E. Husserl, M. Scheler, E. Lask, N. Hartmann, Mr. Heidegger. Pref. Lon
Brunschvicg. Paris: J. Vrin, 1930: 234. Bibliothque dhistoire de la philosophie. Print. This item
was reprinted in 1949 by J. Vrin. Eng. trans. The Emotional Intuitionism of Max Scheler.
Athanasse Iliev. Le Bergsonisme. Une Philosophie prospective. Sofia: LEssor bulgare, 1930: 166. Print.
Eng. trans. Bergsonism: A Prospective Philosophy.
J. R. Kelley. The Bergsonian Intuition Critically Evaluated. Thesis. Catholic University of America,
1930. Washington, DC. Print.

Emmanuel Levinas. La thorie de lintuition dans la phnomnologie de Husserl. Paris: F. Alcan, 1930:
228. Bibliothque de philosophie contemporaine. Print. Eng. trans. The Theory of Intuition in
Husserls Phenomenology.
Jacques Maritain. Jugements sur Bergson. Vie Intellectuelle, 2 (June 20, 1930): 542-88. Print. Eng.
trans. Judgments Concerning Bergson.
Henri Massis (Agathon). vocations. Souvenirs 1905-1911. Paris: Plon, 1930: 300. Print. On pp. 84-96
the author states that Bergsons lectures freed him from his early materialism. He notes the
negative relations between Bergson and the Sorbonne. Eng. trans. Evocations: Memories 19051911.
Raissa Messer. Estetika Bergsona: shkola Voronskogo. Literatura i iskusstvo, 1.1 (1930): 43-53. Print.
Eng. trans. Bergsonian Aesthetics and the School of Voronsky. This item is in Russian.
Dominique Parodi. Du Positivisme lIdalisme. Etudes critiques. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin,
1930: 253. Bibliothque dHistoire de la philosophie. Print. This collection contains an essay on
Bergsons theory of laughter (Le Rire daprs M. Bergson, pp. 144-59) first published in the
Revue de Mtaphysique et de Morale, 1901. It is a thoughtful critique of Bergsons theory of
comedy. The author holds that Bergson needs to pay more attention to the physiology of laughter,
to its relations with pleasure, and to the relativity of situations in which we laugh. He argues that
Bergsons definition of the form of the object of laughter (mechanism imposed on the living) and
laughters function (social correction) should apply equally to each instance but do not. (An
infants laughter may have something to do with the contrast mechanism/life but surely has
nothing to do with social correction.) Laughter may have come to play a social role, but surely in
its origins it expresses a natural capacity in the individual. Eng. trans. From Positivism to
Idealism: Critical Studies.
Eugenio Rignano. The Nature of Life. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1930: 224. Print. On p. 82
the author comments favorably on Bergsons critique of H. Spencer. On p. 128 he criticizes
Bergsons vitalism.
Newton Phelps Stallknecht. Bergsons Idea of Creation. Diss. Princeton University, 1930, Princeton, NJ.
Print.
Giuseppi Tarozzi. Lesistenza e lanima. Bari: Laterza, 1930: 240. Biblioteca di cultura moderna. Print.
Eng. trans. The Existence of the Soul.
Yushi no tetsuri. Tokyo: Shunjusa, 1930: 175. Sekai dai shiso zenshu, 1[036]. Print. This item deals with
both Western and Eastern thinkers. It contains a section on Bergson.
1931
F. Chaikes. Bergson and his Place in the History of Philosophy. Thesis. McMaster University, 1931:
36. Hamilton, Ontario.
Frederick C. Green. French Novelists From the Revolution to Proust. London: Dent; New York:
Appleton, 1931: xiii, 354. Print. See. F. C. Green, 1989.

Edouard Krakowski. Henri Bergson et le Renouveau de la pense contemporaine. Bordeaux: J. Bire,

1931. Print. Eng. trans. Henri Bergson and the Renewal of Contemporary Thought.
Ralph S. Lillie. Types of Physical Determination and the Activities of Living Organisms. Journal of
Philosophy, 28.21 (8 Oct. 1931): 561-73. Print.
1932
Heinrich Berl. Begegnung mit jdischen Zeitgenossen: Bergson, Husserl, Scheler, Buber, Gundolf,
Mombert, Wasserman. Menorah, 10.7-8 (Aug. 1932): 319-35. Print. Eng. trans. Interview with
Famous Jews: Bergson, Husserl, Scheler, Buber, Gundolf, Mombert, Wasserman. On pp. 319-21
the author briefly reports an interview with Bergson. He remarks that the impression Bergson
made on him was one of the best in his life (p. 320). He concludes that, though Bergson wished
to be seen as Greek, he was essentially Hebraic (Rabbinic, Talmudic) in his caste of thought. He
reports Bergson as saying that, like Spinoza, he is alone and goes his own way. His students, Berl
reports him as stating sadly, have left him for a kind of purely humanistic philosophical
anthropology. Berl states that Bergson is referring here to Max Scheler and Martin Heidegger!
The interview ends with a discussion of Husserl, idealism, and phenomenology.
Annie Cecelia (Bulmer) Bill. The Method of Creative Evolution. New York and London: A. A.
Beauchamp, 1932: 108. Print.
Leonardo Coimbra. O ltimo livro de Henri Bergson: Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion. A
guia rgo da Renascen a Portuguesa, No. 3, May-June, 1932, 113-135. Eng. trans. On
Bergsons Final Book: The Two Sources of Morality and Religion.
Andr Lalande. Philosophy in France, 1932. Philosophical Review, 43.1, 193, 1-26. This concerns
Bergsons The Two Sources of Morality and Religion.
Raoul Mourgue. Luvre et la personnalit du Professeur Constantin Von Monakow (1853-1930).
LEncphale, 26 (May 1931): 417-28. Print. Eng. trans. The Work and Personality of Professor
Constantin Von Monakow (1853-1930). On pp. 423-24 the author notes the influence of
Bergsons philosophy on his own psychological researchparticularly as regards his conception
of mind and body.
Fernand Mngoz. Le problme de la prire. Principe dune rvision de la mthode thologique. 2nd ed.
Rev. and aug. Paris: Flix Alcan, 1932: 540. Cahiers de la Revue dhistoire et de la philosophie
religieuses, no. 28. Print. Eng. trans. The Problem of Prayer. Principle of a Revision of
Theological Method. This edition contains reflections on Bergsons The Two Sources of Morality
and Religion.
Marie Salomon. Letter to Bergson. May 2, 1932 in Bergson politique by Philippe Soulez. Pris: Presses
Universitaires de France, 1989: 298-99. Print. Eng. trans. The Political Bergson. The writer asks
whether Bergson believes that humanity has to pass through Communism in order to become
fully Christian. Yet Communism would perhaps destroy faith. Only one segment of this letter is
presented by Prof. Soulez.
George Conrad Seek. Theory of Knowledge in the Philosophies of Henri Bergson and S. Alexander.
Thesis. Boston University, 1932: 60. Boston. Print.

1933
Michel Argentine. Le fakir voleur dme. Paris: Edition de la Nouvelle Revue Critique, 1933: 194. Print.
This item contains literary evocations of many writers, including Bergson. Eng. trans. The
Imposter, Thief of Soul.
Cleto Carbonara. Morale e religione nella filosofia di H. Bergson. Napoli-Citt di Castello: F. Perrella,
1933: 69. Biblioteca di filosofia. Print. Eng. trans. Morality and Religion in H. Bergsons
Philosophy.
Ernst Cassirer. Henri Bergsons Ethik und Religionsphilosophie. Der Morgen, Jahrg, 9, 1933, 20-29,
138-51. Eng. trans. Henri Bergsons Ethical and Relgious Philosophy.
Les Deux Sources. Discussion lUnion pour la vrit. Bulletin de lUnion pour la vrit, 4.7-8 (1933).
Print. Participants in this discussion include R. Le Senne, E. Brehier, D Parodi, J. Maritain, R.-E.
Lacombe, G. Gurvitch. The discussion concludes with a letter from Henri Bergson. Eng. trans.
The Two Sources: Discussion at the Union for Truth. Source: Hjalmar Sundn. La Thorie
bergsonienne de la religion. Paris, 1947: 4n.
E. Dhorme. Prtres, devins et mages dans lancienne religion des hbreux. Revue de lhistoire des
religions, 108 (1933): 113-43. Print. In this article the author cites, on pp. 132-34, Bergsons
treatment of the instinct of magic as developed in The Two Sources of Morality and Religion.
The author interprets a text from the Old Testament involving Elisha as an example of magic.
Eng. trans. Priests, Soothsayers and Wise Men in the Older Religion of the Hebrews.
Emric Fiser. LEsthtique de Marcel Proust. Pref. Valry Larbaud. Paris: Alexis Redier, 1933: 222.
Print. The author argues that Prousts work, if not directly influenced by Bergson, was at least
inspired by him. Eng. trans. Marcel Prousts Aesthetic.
Maurice Hauriou. Aux sources du droit. Le Pouvoir, lordre et la libert. Supplment : Paul Archambault,
Ren Aigrain, Marc Scherer. Les ides et les livres. Paris: Bloud et Gay, 1933: 210. Cahiers de la
Nouvelle Journe, 23. Print. This work contains a discussion of Bergsons concept of religion by
P. Archambault, Ren Aigrain, and Marc Scherer. Eng. trans. Sources of Law. Power, Order and
Liberty. Supplement: Paul Archambault, Ren Aigrain, Marc Scherer: Ideas and Books.
Sverre Holm. Henri Bergson and Zeno of Elea. Overbibliotekar Wilhelm Munthe. Oslo: Grondahl,
1933: 375-76. Print. Eng. trans. Henri Bergson and Zeno of Elea.
Georges Lotard. En marge de Bergson. Woluwe-Bruxelles: Les Editions L.H., 1933: 192. Print. Eng.
trans. In the Margin of Bergson.
Victor Monod. Dieu dans lunivers ; essai sur laction exerce sur la pense chrtienne par les grands
systmes cosmologiques depuis Aristote jusqu nos jours. Paris: Fishbacher, 1933: 358. Print.
The author often distinguishes between God sought in space and God sought in time. He
makes many references to Bergsons philosophy. Eng. trans. God in the Universe.
Francesco Olgiati. La simplex apprehensio e lintuition artistica. Rivista di Filosofia Neoscolastica,
25 (1933): 516-29. Print. Eng. trans. Simple Apprehension and Artistic Intuition.

Paul Petit. Le social est-il une source ? Paris: Descle de Brouwer, 1933: 23. Print. This item is taken
from Nouvelle Equipe, Jan.-Mar. 1932. The author, a writer on sociology, is critical of the social
as a source of religion. Eng. trans. The Social: Is It a Source?
Franois Picard. Les Phnomnes sociaux chez les animaux. Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1933: 201.
Collection Armand Colin, Section de Biologie. Print. In his introduction the author takes issue
with Bergsons contention that nature is more preoccupied with the society than with the
individual. The social animals are not always good at architecture, he argues, while some
solitary animals do very well at it. The author scorns Bergsons reflections concerning the
problem of the unity of the organism versus its plurality, and the similar problem of
superorganisms: Is the bee really distinct from the hive or is the hive a single organism?
Solitariness and sociability are simply two biological possibilities, states the author. There is
Providence or there is nothing. Eng. trans. Social Phenomena in Animals.
mile Rideau. Le dieu de Bergson, essai de critique religieuse. Ph.D. Dissertation, Clermont-Ferrand,
1933. An English translation of the title of this item is: Bergsons God: An Essay in Religious
Critique.
mile Rideau. Les Rapports de la matire et de lesprit dans le bergsonisme. Ph.D. Dissertation,
Clermont-Ferrant, 1933. An English translation of the title of this item is: The Relations
Between Matter and Spirit in Bergson.
Henri Call Sprinkle. Concerning the Philosophical Defensibility of a Limited Indeterminism: An Enquiry
Based upon the Indeterministic Theories of James, Renouvier, Boutroux, Eddington, Bergson and
Whitehead. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1933: 63. Yale Studies in Religion, 5. Print.
T. Troward. The Law and the Word. New York: Robert M. McBride, 1933: xi, 208. Print. The publisher
describes his book as a simplified Bergsonian approach to Biblical ethics, morality and
religion.
1934
Jean Baruzi. Sur quelques rapports de la pense mystique et de la pense mtaphysique. Etudes
philosophiques, 8.4 (Dec. 1934): 301-16. Print. Eng. trans. On Several Connections between
Mystical Thought and of Metaphysical Thought.
Leonardo Coimbra. A filosofia de Henri Bergson. Porto (Portugal) 1934. An English translation of the
title of this item is: The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. A new edition of this work has been
published in 1994 (Lisbon).
J. J. Farrell. The Bergsonian Doctrine of Soul. Thesis. Catholic University of America, 1934.
Washington, DC. Print.
rpd Kiss. Irodalmi Bergsonizmus (tanulmny). Irta: Kiss rpd. Balassagyarmat Felels (Kiad: Kiss
.), 1934: 85. Bibliography 79-84. Print. This Hungarian language work deals with Bergson and
French literature.
Rolf Lagerborg. Om sanningen i religionen och fromhetalivet: en uppgorelse. Stockholm: Bokforlaget
natur och Kultur, 1934: 274. Print. For an essay on Bergsons philosophy of religion, see pp. 13151.

Wilfred Monod. Le Problme du bien. Essai de thodice et journal dun pasteur. Vol. 1. Paris: Librairie
Flix Alcan, 1934: 1140. Print. See 29 juin 1911. Entretien avec le philosophe Bergson,
pp. 225-28. This recounts a brief discussion between Monod and Bergson. Bergson is impressed
by the position taken by Monod in his book Aux croyants et aux athes, in which he denies that
God is omnipotent. This position, Bergson states, makes possible a kind of rapprochement
between believers and nonbelievers. Bergson notes that in the previous year he has studied Mme
Guyon, and that he had already studied the great mystics. He and Monod agree concerning the
personalities of the mystics: They are free spirits, not slaves; they work with God. Bergson argues
here for the souls survival after death but not for the eternity of the soul. He speculates that the
earth does not possess sufficient carbon for life to fully express itself and that on other planets
things may have gone differently. (See. H. Sundn, 1947: 12). Eng. trans. The Problem of the
Good.
Antnio Sergio. Cartas despretensiosa a un anti-intelectualisa bergsoniano. Seara Nova, 13, No. 375,
1934, 227-229; No. 376, 243-245; No. 377, 259-261; No. 378, 275-278; No. 380, 310-313; No.
381, 328-333; No. 382, 348-351. Eng. trans. Unpretentious Letters to a Bergsonian AntiIntellectual. The author is unremittingly critical.
Maurillo Texeira-Leite Penido. Dieu dans le bergsonisme. Paris: Descle, de Brouwer, 1934: 261. Print.
Questions disputes, sous la direction de Charles Journet et Jacques Maritain. Eng. trans. God in
Bergsonism.
1935
Samuel Bach. La conception bergsonienne de Dieu ou lexprience de Dieu. LArcher, 6th year, n. 1,
1935. Eng. trans. Bergsons Concept of God or the Experience of God.
Jean Baruzi. Problmes dhistoire des religions. Paris: Flix Alcan, 1935: 151. Nouvelle encyclopdie
philosophique. Print. This study consists of three chapters: Remarques sur ltat prsent de
lhistoire des religions (First given as a lecture at the Collge de France, 6 Feb. 1934); Le
Problme de la forme et lexgse contemporaine. A propos de la Formgeschichte; and Sur
une hypothse dAsin Palacios. The author states in his introduction that he is concerned with
methodology: une introduction mthodologique des recherches concernant lHistoire des
Religions. He refers to Bergsons discussion of method in La Pense et le mouvant (1934). The
problem, Bergson states, is not to proceed deductively, from prior ideas, in pursuing an
investigation; we must learn first how to pose a question before we can find an answer to it. See
especially pp. 50-52. Here the author, referring to Bergson, urges historians of religion to study
des nuances obscures et caches qui ont constitu et constituent en ces religions mmes ce
quelles contiennent de vivant. We should look behind appearances, for what is living and vital
in religion. Eng. trans. Problems of the History of Religions.
Hugo Bergmann. Hoge ha-dor. Tel-Aviv: Mizpah, 1935: 243. Print. An essay on Bergson appears here on
pp. 166-78.
Maurice Duval. Religion, superstition et criminalit. Essai philosophique sur la criminalit superstitieuse.
Paris: Flix Alcan, 1935: 380. Bibliographie de philosophie contemporaine. Print. Eng. trans.
Religion, Superstition and Criminality: Philosophical Essay on Superstitious Criminality.

L. I. German. Anri Bergson kak filosof fashistskoi reaktsii. Front nauki i tekhniki, 1 (1935): 116-28.
Print. Eng. trans. Henri Bergson as a Reactionary Fascist Philosopher.
L. I. German. Intuitiva Filosofia Bergsona. Literaturnyi kritik, 5 (1935): 3-26. Print. This is an orthodox
Marxist exposition and critique, first, of Bergsons theory of knowledge, then of his aesthetic
theory. The author describes Bergsons philosophy as an apologia for a dying capitalist society
and his theory of knowledge as an incoherent juxtaposition of merely subjective intuition and
science-oriented pragmatism. Bergsons aesthetic theory, as developed in An Introduction to
Metaphysics and Laughter is entirely misguided. In particular, Bergson fails to see that the
function of art is to produce good conduct, while the basis of true art is knowledge of
socioeconomic conditions. Eng. trans. Bergsons Intuitive Philosophy.
William James. Syllabus of Philosophy 3 in Ralph Barton Perry, The Thought and Character of
William James, 1935: 744-65. Vol. 2. Print. See p. 734: You cant confine content. This is the
Bergson-Dewey claim. It changes into content witnessed or experience of content.
John Landquist. Sjlens enhet. Tre frlsningar. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1935: 150. Print. Eng.
trans. The Unity of Spirit: Three Preliminary Readings.
Men of Turmoil: Biographies by Leading Authorities of the Dominating Personalities of Today. New
York: Minton, Balch, 1935: iii, 367. Print. This item contains a brief biography of Bergson by
Esm Wingfield-Stratford.
Rgis Michaud. Modern Thought and Literature in France. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1935: 339.
Print. The author stresses the influence of Bergson on twentieth-century French literature.
Giuseppi Molina. Scienza e filosofia nel pensiero H. Bergson in Annuario scolastico (del) Liceoginnasio Giovanni Plana in Allessandria. Cronaca quinquennale 1929-1934, a cura di Carlo
Contessa, con dissertazioni e note di professori e di alunni. Alessandria: G. Colombani, 1935:
316. Print. Eng. trans. Science and Philosophy in the Thought of Bergson.
Richard Mller-Freienfels. The Evolution of Modern Psychology. Tranas. W. Bran Wolf. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1935: 513. Print. On pp. 89-92, the author cites Bergson as one of the
three great critics of the mosaic theory. The other two are William James and Wilhelm Wundt.
On p. 263 the author cites Bergson as the most original theorist of French psychomotor
psychology and instinct psychology. Bergson made important contributions to psychology in
its psychomotor aspect (p. 266). Bergson may be described as a psychologist because of his
influence on psychology. Among the psychologists influenced by Bergson are G. Dwelshauvers,
D. Roustan, C. Blondel and G. Finnbogason.
Leonardo Patan. Lindividuo biologico in rapporto alla filosofia bergsoniana. Logos, 18 (Apr. 1935):
413-30. Print. Eng. trans. The Biological Individual with Respect to Bergsons Philosophy.
Len Pierre-Quint. Marcel Proust. Nouvelle dition augmente de plusieurs tudes: Le comique et le
mystre chez Proust ; une nouvelle lecture dix ans plus tard ; Proust et la jeunesse daujourdhui.
Paris: Editions du sagittaire, 1935: 452. Les documentaires. Print. Eng. trans. Marcel Proust. New
Augmented Edition of Several Studies: The Comic and the Mysterious in Proust.
Antnio Srgio. Em torno da teoria bergsoniana sobre o instinto e sobre as suas relaes com
inteligncia. Seara Nova, 14, No. 434, 1935, 19-24; No. 437, 70-75. Eng. trans. Concerning
Bergsons Theory of Instinct and Its Relations to Intelligence.

Hjalmar Sundn. Wilfred Monod om det godas problem. Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift, 11 (1935): 37889. Print. Eng. trans. Wilfred Monod and the Problem of God.
1936
A. Baillot. Schopenhauer et la pense franaise contemporaine. Jahrbuch der Schopenhauergesellschaft, 23 (1936): 183-203. Print. Eng. trans. Schopenhauer and Contemporary French
Philosophy.
E. Brhier. LIntuition : Henri Bergson in Grand Memento encyclopdique Larousse publi sous la
direction de Claude Aug, 1936: 505-07. Vol. I. Print. Eng. trans. Intuition: Henri Bergson.
Charles Eugene Conover. The Source of Moral Obligation: An Essay Based Upon the Moral
Philosophies of Aristotle and Henri Bergson. Thesis, Univ. of Cincinnati, 1936: 67. Cincinnati.
Print.
Matthieu-Maxime Gorce. Comment complter le ralisme bergsonien. Rivista di filosofia
neoscolastica, 28 (July 1936): 341-49. Print. Eng. trans. How to Complete Bergsonian Realism.
N. Imbert. Henri Bergson in Dictionnaire national des Contemporains. Paris: Les Editions Lajeunesse,
1936: 66. Print.
Pierre Janet. La psychologie de la croyance et le mysticisme. Revue de mtaphysique et de morale,
43.3, 1936, 327-58; 48.4, 1936, 507-32, 44.2, 1937, 367-410. Eng. trans. The Psychology of
Belief and Mysticism.
Cornelia Le Boutillier. Religious Values in the Philosophy of Emergent Evolution. Diss., Columbia
University, 1936: 104. New York. Print.
Philipp Lersch. Grundstliches zur Lebensphilosophie. Bltter fr deutsche Philosophie, 10.1, 1936,
22-55. An English translation of the title of the item is: Foundations of The Philosophy of Life.
C. J. McFadden. Problem of Religion in The Two Sources of Morality and Religion by Henri
Bergson. Thesis, Catholic University of America, 1936. Washington, DC. Print.
Jean Nogu. Essai sur lactivit primitive du moi. Paris: Flix Alcan, 1936: 232. Print. The author
dedicates this work to Louis Lavelle. In general his concepts of duration, action, abstraction,
space, memory and expression, as well as personal freedom, are closely similar to Bergsons. One
is reminded throughout of Bergsons defense of individual freedom in Time and Free Will and
Matter and Memory. The author refers to our basic grasp of duration as analytical, however,
and finds less distance between language and fundamental reality than Bergson does. Eng. trans.
Essay on the Primitive Activity of the Self.
Benjamin Rand. Modern Classical Philosophers: Selections Illustrating Modern Philosophy from Bruno
to Bergson. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936: xiv, 893. Print.
Lee Strickler Riley. Intuition in the Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Thesis, Oberlin College, 1936: 104.
Oberlin. Print.

Guy Coburn Robson and O. W. Richards. The Variation of Animals in Nature. London: Longmans Green,
1936: 425. Print. On pp. 343-47 the authors refer to Bergsons biology as a nonscientific
alternative to Darwinism. The authors liken Bergsons evolutionary theory to orthogenesis and
compare his writings to the similar views of J. C. Smuts and E. S. Russell.
Giuseppi Tarozzi. La liberta umane e la critica del determinismo. Bologna: Zanichelli, 1936: 420. Print.
Eng. trans. Human Liberty and the Critique of Determinism.
Angel Vassallo. Bergson y el problema de la metafsica in Nuevos prolegmenos a la metafsica.
Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1936: 216. Biblioteca filosfica. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and
the Problem of Metaphysics. A second edition of this work was published in 1945.
Olive Annie Wheeler. Creative Education and the Future. London: University of London Press, 1936:
365. Print. This is a successor to the authors Bergson and Education (1922). See pp. 24-25, 6467, 82-85, 247-48 for discussions of Bergson.
1937
Enrique Butty. La duracin de Bergson y el tiempo de Einstein. Buenos Aires: Talleres grficos Radio
Revista, 1937: 162. Print. This item consists of lectures given in the Colegio Libre de Estudios
Superiores in July and August, 1935. Eng. trans. Bergsons Duration and Einsteins Time.
Charles Sumner Crow. Creative Education: Some Relations of Education and Civilization. New York:
Prentice-Hall, 1937: 456. Print. On pp. 28-29 the author cites Bergsons description of the way in
which the invention impacts its inventor, increasing his potential freedom; on pp. 38-39 he cites
Bergsons account of the way in which freedom can congeal into automatism; on pp. 105-06 he
cites Bergsons treatment of the marshalling of the past toward a purpose; on pp. 184-85 he
applies Bergsons concept of memory to problems of learning; on pp. 279-80 he notes Bergsons
definition of man as Homo faber. This work is more the expression of a climate of opinion than
of the influence of any one thinker.
Lus M. Ravagnan. La impresin de ya visto; Ensayo psicolgico de H. Bergson. Estudios, 27.315
(1937): 27-76. Print. This is a translation of Bergsons Le Souvenir du prsent (1908) with
commentary. Eng. trans. The Impression of Dj vu: A Psychological Essay of H. Bergson.
Moszek Rubin. La sympathie de Bergson dans la psychanalyse. Bordeaux: E. Drouillard, 1938: 60. Print.
This is the authors medical thesis at the University of Bordeaux, 1937. Eng. trans. Bergsonian
Sympathy in Psychoanalysis.
George Santayana. The Philosophy of M. Henri Bergson. Winds of Doctrine. Vol. VII. The Works of
George Santayana. Triston edition. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1937: 49-90. Print.
A. D. Sertillanges.. Psychologick svoboda u sv. Tome e u Henri Bergsona. Filosofick revue, 9
(1937): 125-29. Print. Eng. trans. Psychological Freedom in St. Thomas and Henri Bergson.
1938
Georges Canguilhem. Activit technique et cration. Communication et discussions, 2nd series, 1938,
p. 86. (This is a publication of the Socit toulousaine de philosophie.) An English translation of

the title of this item is: Technical Activity and Creation. Here the author states that technology
(and science generally) depends on an elan of vital creativity. This view is similar to Bergsons,
which has, he states, been poorly understood. (Canguilhem had been previously antibergsonian.
Cf. Giuseppi Bianco, 2007.)
Jacques-Emile Blanche. Portraits of a Lifetime. Trans. W. Clement. Intro. Harley Granville-Barker. New
York: Coward-McCann; London: J. M. Dent, 1938: xx, 316. Print. On pp. 244-45 the author
describes painting a portrait of Bergson. He notes relations between Bergson and contemporary
cubists and art theoreticians.
Harry Campbell Eatough. A Comparison of the Philosophies of Bergson and Whitehead. Thesis. Brown
U, 1938: iii, 57. Providence, RI: privately published, 1938. Print.
Henri Bergson. Index liborum prohibitorum. In Civitate Vaticana: Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1938:
46. Print. This is the Roman Catholic index of prohibited books. It includes many of Bergsons
works.
Euryalo Cannabrava. Descartes e Bergson. So Paulo: Amigos o Livro, 1938: 208. Print. Eng. trans.
Descartes and Bergson.
James K. Feibleman. The Meaning of Comedy. Journal of Philosophy, 35.16 (1938): 421-32. Print.
Vladimir Janklvitch. LAlternative. Paris: Flix Alcan, 1938: 219. Print. This is a Bergsonian response
to the unhappy dilemmas posed by existentialism. We are confronted, the author argues, with too
much or too little possibility, too much or too little time; we develop one talent at the expense of
others, our means are never sufficient for the realization of our ends. Comme nous restons
loigns, en somme, de lidal bergsonien : agir en hommes de pense, penser en hommes
daction ! (p. 12). Instead, we choose between speculative impotence and the brutality of fiat.
This work consists of three chapters: LAlternative, LEconomie, and Mtaphysique de
lennui. Throughout, the author traces human failure to the inability to comprehend, and to live,
duration.
Jacques-M. Lacan. Le Complexe ddipe. Encyclopdie Franaise. Vol. 8. 1938: 840, 11-16. Print.
The author refers to Bergson on p. 15 in a discussion of patriarchal cultures. Eng. trans. The
dipus Complex.
Jacques Lacan. La famille. Encyclopdie franaise, 8, 1938, 40-55. An English translation of the title of
this item is: The Family.
Jacques Maritain. Lexprience mystique naturelle et le vide. Etudes carmlitaines, 23.2 (1938): 11639. Print. This essay is concerned primarily with certain forms of Oriental religious experience
involving emptiness. Maritain, in passing, uses an example taken from Bergsons lectures at the
Collge de France to describe the nature of human love. A sleeping mother will respond to the
slightest sound from her infant while, Bergson notes, sleeping through the discharge of a nearby
cannon.
H. Massis. La declinacin del bergsonismo y el renacimiento filosfico. Criterio (Buenos Aires), 1.15
(1938). Eng. trans. The Decline of Bergson and the Philosophical Renaissance.
Rudolf Metz. A Hundred Years of British Philosophy. Trans. J. W. Harvey, T. E. Jessop, and Henry Sturt.
Ed. J. H. Muirhead. London: Allen & Unwin, 1938: 656-57. Print. The author describes the

philosophies of Samuel Alexander and C. Lloyd Morgan as New, important, and specifically
British variations of Bergsons Creative Evolution. (However, see D. Blitz, 1992.)
Bertrand Russell. Power: A New Social Analysis. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1938: 328. Print. In
Chapter 12, Power Philosophies, the author states: Bergsons Creative Evolution is a powerphilosophy, which has been developed fantastically in the last Act of Bernard Shaws Back to
Methuselah. Bergson holds that the intellect is to be condemned as unduly passive and merely
contemplative, and that we only see truly during vigorous action such as a cavalry charge. He
believes that animals acquired eyes because it would be pleasant to see; their intellects would not
have been able to think about seeing, since they were blind, but intuition was able to perform this
miracle. All evolution, according to him, is due to desire, and there is no limit to what can be
achieved if desire is sufficiently passionate. The groping attempts of biochemists to understand
the mechanisms of life are futile, since life is not mechanical, and its development is always such
as the intellect is inherently incapable of imagining in advance; it is only in action that life is
understood. It follows that men should be passionate and irrational; fortunately for Bergsons
happiness, they are (pp. 268-69). Surely Russell knew better. (Ed.)
Ivan Saralieff. Pragmatizima. Sofia: Pridvorna pechatnika, 1938. Print. This work contains a comparison
of Bergson and C. S. Peirce. Eng. trans. Pragmatism.
A. D. Sertillanges. Bh a svt. Filosofick revue, 10 (1938): 4-8. Print. Eng. trans. God and the
World.
D. Casares Toms. Bergson. Criterio, 1.39 (1938). Print.
ngel Vasallo. Bergson y el problema de la metafsica in Nuevos prolegmenos a la metafsica. Buenos
Aires: Editorial Losada, 1938: 216. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and the Problem of Metaphysics.
1939
Mili apek. Henri Bergson. Prague: Nakladatelske drustvo Maje, 1939: 183. Print.
Mili apek. Henri Bergson. Svtov knihovna. Mje II-27. Prague, 1939. Laureti Nobelovy ceny 27.
Print.
N. de Munnynck. Notes on Intuition. Thomist, 1.2 (July 1939): 143-68. Print. The author examines the
concept of intuition, making brief reference to Bergsonian and phenomenological concepts of
intuition.
Will Durant. Van Socrates tot Bergson: hoofdfiguren uit de geschiedenis van het denken. Trans. H. C. and
H. J. Pos. Den haag: Boucher, 1939: 5. Eng. trans. The Story of Philosophy.
Mary C. Henley. Bergsonism in Jean-Christophe. Thesis. Duke U, 1939: 109. Chapel Hill, NC:
privately published, 1939. Print. This thesis explores Bergsons influence on Jean-Christophe
(Romain Rolland).
Giannes Imvriotes. He philosophia tou Bergson. Thessalonike: Typ. Tryantaphylliou, 1939: Print. Eng.
trans. The Philosophy of Bergson.

Gabriel Marcel. Quest-ce que le bergsonisme ? Temps prsent, 30 June 1939: 5. Eng. trans. What is
Bergsonism?
Maurice Pradines. Luvre de Henri Delacroix. Revue de Mtaphysique et de Morale, 46.1 (1939):
109-45. Print. The author notes that Delacroixs approach to the problem of mysticism was in
certain respects carried on and enlarged by Bergson. On this point, which is certainly correct, see
H. Gouhier, 1961. Eng. trans. The Work of Henri Delacroix.
Sister Mary Consilia OBrien. The Antecedents of Being; An Analysis of the Concept de nihilo in the
Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, A Study in Thomistic Metaphysics. Thesis. Catholic U of
America, 1939: 199. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, Philosophical
Studies, Vol. 46, 1939. Print.
Arnold J. Toynbee. A Study History. Vol. 5. New York: Oxford University Press, 1939, 633. Cf. J.
Thornhill, Thomist, 25.2, 1962. Toynbee here accepts the distinction between a closed, barbaric
society and an open, humane society.
1940
Marc Chapiro. LIllusion comique. Paris: Flix Alcan, 1940: 160. Bibliothque de philosophie
contemporaine. Print. On pp. 61 et seq. the author reflects on whether Freuds study of laughter
might have been influenced by Bergsons insights into the similarity of laughter and dreaming.
Eng. trans. The Comic Illusion.
Rushton Coulborn. The Individual and the Growth of Civilizations, an Answer to Arnold Toynbee and
Henri Bergson. New York (?): Phylon, 1940, 58. The author complains that Toynbee was too
blinded by Bergson to see the true reasons for the decline of civilization.
Alejandro O. Deustua. Los Sistemas de Morale. Vol. 2. Callao (Peru): Empresa Editorial de El Callao,
1940, 505. Eng. trans. The Systems of Morality.
Ennio Franci. Appunti sul Pensiero di Bergson. LOsservatori Romano, 1-2 Dec. 1940: 4. Print. Eng.
trans. Notes on the Thought of Bergson.
Ren Gillouin. Bergson. So Paulo: Cultura Moderna, 1940: 151. Print.
Henrick Josephus Pos and Helena C. Pos. Bergson. Baarn: Hollandia drukkerij, 1940: 192. Print.
Henrick Houwens Post. Bergson, de philosophie der intuitie. Den Haag: Leopold, 1940: 95. Bibliotheek
voor weten en denken, 5. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson, the Philosophy of Intuition.
ngel Vasallo. La essencia de lo moral segn H. Bergson. Universidad de la Habana publicacin
bimestral, 5 (1940): 7-22. Print. Eng. trans. The Essence of the Moral According to H. Bergson.
ngel Vasallo. Metafsica de la libertad. Universidad Catlica Bolivariano, Apr.-May 1940: 49-59.
Print. Eng. trans. Metaphysics of Liberty.

1941
Mario Valdez Alzamora. La filosofa de Bergson. Medelln, Columbia: Universidad Pontifcia
Bolivariana, 1941. Print. Eng. trans. The Philosophy of Bergson.
Jacques Chevalier. La Vie morale et lau-del. Paris: E. Flammarion, 1941: x, 130. Bibliothque de
philosophie contemporaine. Print. Eng. trans. The Moral Life and the Beyond.
Jean de la Harpe. Gense et mesure du temps. Essai danalyse gntique du temps mtrique. Notes by
Andr Lalande and Lon Brunschvicg. Neuchtel: Secretariat de lUniversit, 1940: 180.
Universit de Neuchtel. Facult des Lettres. Recueil de travaux, 20, fasc. Print. On pp. 10ff the
author argues that the analysis of duration must be based on Bergsonian ideas and on
phenomenology. He also argues, as is noted by Jean Piaget (Gense de la notion de temps), that
the problem of the development of the notion of time in children must be ignored in principle.
Eng. trans. The Genesis and the Measure of Time: Genetic Analytical Essay on Metric Time.
Georges Davy. Henri Bergson (1859-1941). Paris: A. Colin, 1941: 31. Print. This item is reprinted from
Revue Universitaire, 1941: 4-5.
C. Donne and M. Sumner. Concerning Henri Bergson. Commonweal, 33.24 (4 Apr. 1941): 601. Print.
This item concerns Bergson and his relations to Catholicism.
Emric Fiser. La thorie du symbole littraire et Marcel Proust. Paris: J. Corti, 1941: 223. Print. On
pp. 155-170, the author identifies Prousts monde intrieur with Bergsons dure profonde.
Eng. trans. Theory of the Literary Symbol and Marcel Proust.
Karl Klimes. Zur Frage des Lautwerdens der Gedanken. European Archives of Psychiatry and
Clinical Neuroscience, 114.2, 1941, 358-365. Eng. trans. On the Question of The Becoming
Known of Thought. The author states: der Eigenleistung zu erkennen ist 3. In dem
Lautwerden ist besonders der Bergsonische motorische Anteil des Wahrnemungsaktes betreffen,
wodurch das Fehlen des Gefhls Eng. trans. The individual work of recognition 3. is in the
becoming-known of thought found especially in the Bergsonian motor component of perception,
in which the lack of feeling
Diamantino Martins. De la intuici filosfica a la intuicin mstica en Bergson. Manresa, 13 (1941):
70-76. Print. Eng. trans. From Philosophical Intuition to Mystical Intuition in Bergson.
Francisco Romero. Temporalismo in Filosofa Contemporanea. Buenos Aires: Losada, 1941: 211.
Biblioteca Filosfica. Print. Eng. trans. Temporalism.
Flora Reheta Schreiber. Bergson and Charlie Chaplin. French Forum, 7.2 (1941): 19-20. Print.
Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges. Le Christianisme et les philosophes. Vol. 2 Lge moderne. Paris: Augier,
1941: 591. Print. A second edition of this item was published in 1946 by Aubier. See Le
Ralisme dHenri Bergson, 375-402. Eng. trans. Christianity and the Philosophers.
Hjalmar Sundn. Ett samtal med Henri Bergson. Var lsen, 32 (1941): 139-47. Print. Eng. trans. A
Conversation with Henri Bergson.

1942
Ruth Nanda Anshen, ed. Freedom, Its Meaning. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1942. Science of Culture
Series, 1. Print. This item contains a passage from The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
titled Freedom and Obligation.
Arthur C. Berndtson. The Problem of Free Will in Recent Philosophy. Diss. U of Chicago, 1942.
Chicago: privately published, 1942. Print. This dissertation discusses, along with other topics,
Bergsons concepts of causation, space, time, and freedom. It was supervised by Charles
Hartshorne.
Georges Legrand. Introduction au Bergsonisme ou lunivers de monsieur Bergson. Lige: Phollien, 1942,
88. Eng. trans. Introduction to Bergsonism or Bergsons Universe.
Ren Le Senne. Trait de morale gnrale. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1942: vii, 757. Logos;
introduction aux tudes philosophiques. Print. See Bergson: Conformisme et spiritualit, p. 294
et seq. Eng. trans.Bergson: Conformism and Spirituality.
Carlo Mazzantini. Filosofia perenne e personalit filosofiche. Padova: Cedam, 1942: 334. Print.
Bergsons philosophy of religion is discussed here on pp. 189-206. This essay was published
originally in Convivium in 1932. Eng. trans. Perennial Philosophy and Philosophical Personality.
Alois Naber. Introduction la mtaphysique par Henri Bergson. Rome: Universitas Gregoriana, 1942:
63. Print. Eng. trans. Henri Bergsons Introdution to Metaphysics.
E. Noulet. Bergson et Valry. Lettres franaise (Buenos Aires), 3 (1942): 31-50. Print.
Iyer V. Subrahmanya. The Last Interview With Bergson. Philosophy, 17.68 (1942): 382-83. Print.
1943
Sante Castellato. Spinoza e Bergson: il continuo della coscienza e il continuo della realt in Saggi di
Metafisica e di morale. Padua: CEDAM, Casa editrice dott. A. Milani, 1943: 67-81. Quaderni di
sophia, 3. Print. Eng. trans. Spinoza and Bergson: The Continuity of Consciousness and the
Continuity of Reality.
Diamantino Martins. Bergson: la intuicin como mtodo en la metafsica. Trans. Jos Hermida Lpez.
Madrid: Instituto de Filosofa Louis Vives, 1943: 320. Ser. B. Instituto de Filosofa Louis
Vives, 3. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson: Intuition as Method in Philosophy.
P. S. Naidu. Biological and Philosophical Theories of Evolution. Philosophical Quarterly (India) 19.2
(Apr. 1943): 24-33. Print.
Yvon Novy. Ce que nous dit Jean-Paul Sartre de sa premire pice. Comoedia, 24 Apr. 1943: 740.
Print. In the course of discussion his play Flies (Les Mouches), Sartre depicts Bergson as holding
that freedom is only internal, and can never be expressed in outward acts. Eng. trans. What
Sartre Tells Us About His First Piece.
Dr. Charles Odier. Les deux sources consciente et inconsciente de la vie morale. Neuchatel: Editions de la
Baconniere, 1943. Second edition 1946, 276 pp. (tre et penser : quatrime et cinquime cahiers)

An English translation of the title of this item is: The Two Sources, Conscious and Unconscious,
of the Moral Life.
Louis Alberto Snchez. Proyecciones de la intuicin: Nuevos estudios sobre la filosofa bergsoniana por
Enrique Molina. Atenea, 24.376 (1943):60. Print. Rev. of Proyecciones de la intuicin by
Enrique Molina. Eng. trans. Projections of Intuition: New Studies of Bergsons Philosophy by
Enrique Molina.
1944
Jean Gaulmier. Pguy et nous. Beyrouth: Imprimerie de la St. dimpression et ddition, 1944: 61. Print.
This item contains a letter from Bergson concerning Charles Pguy. Eng. trans. Pguy and Us.
Kenneth Henderson. Thoughts for Today: The Leading Thoughts of Jowett of Ballid, Henri Bergson,
Friedrick von Hugel. Sydney: Clarendon, 1944, 106.
J. Hroux. Libert humaine dans Bergson. Canada franais, 31 (Feb. 1944): 430-43. Print. Eng. trans.
Human Liberty in Bergson.
Alfonso Junco. Egregios. Mexico City: Editorial Jus, 1944: 314. Print. This item contains an essay on
Bergson as a Roman Catholic convert (Bergson convertito). Eng. trans. Illustrious.
1945
Jean-Jacques Baumgartner. Le tmoignage de Bergson. Moissons, Lhebdomadaire catholique
lyonnais, January 14, 1945. An English translation of the title of this item is: The Bergsonian
Evidence.
Peter A. Bertocci. A Reinterpretation of Moral Obligation. Philosophy and Phenomenological
Research, 6.2, 1945, 270-83.
Angel Iliev Bunkov. Bergsonizmut v Bulgariia. Sofia, Bulgaria [s.n.] 1945: 225. Print. Eng. trans.
Bergsonism in Bulgaria.
Armando Carlini. Avviamento allo studio della filosofia. Catania: Battiato, 1945: 115. Print. This item
contains a section on Bergson. Eng. trans. Introduction to the Study of Philosophy.
Lon Cotnareanu, ed. Suites franaises par Henri Bergson et al. 2 vols. New York: Brentanos, 1945.
Print. This item consists of various articles published in Figaro, 1939-1940.
Pierre Dive. Les Interprtations physiques de la thorie dEinstein. 2nd ed. rev. and aug. with facsimile of
an autograph of Henri Bergson. Pref. Ernest Esclangon. Paris: Dunod, 1945: 79. Print. The author
argues in favor of Bergsons interpretation of relativity physics. Eng. trans. Physical
Interpretations of Einsteins Theory.
Risieri Frondizi. El Punto de Partida del Filosofar. Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1945: 164. Biblioteca
Filosfica. Print. The author states: Tarea complicada y ociosa sera sealar la diversidad de
filsofos en quienes se apoya este trabajo. Cabe tan slo destacar la resonancia que dejaron en
espritu del autor las reiterados lecturas de Bergson, Husserl y Whitehead, acaso los nicos
pensadores contemporneos que logran abrir nuevas sendas a la filosofa (p. 9). [It would be a

complicated and pointless task to indicate the diversity of philosophies on which this work rests.
It is important only to point out the resonance that the repeated reading of Bergson, Husserl and
Whitehead has left on the spirit of the author, as they are the only contemporary thinkers that
opened new paths of philosophy.] Eng. trans. The Starting-point for Philosophizing.
Juan R. Gironella. Ensayo de filosofa religiosa. Revista de Filosofa, 4.1 (Jan.-Mar. 1945): 197-203.
Print. Eng. trans. Essay on Religious Philosophy.
Ren Le Senne. Trait de caractrologie. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1945: 648. Logos;
introduction aux tudes philosophiques. Print. The authors characterology contains a section
describing Bergsons character (pp. 523ff).
Lvy-Bruhl. Histoire et bergsonisme. Revue de Synthse, 19, nouv. sr. (1945): 141-49. Print. eng.
trans. History and Bergsonism.
Marcel Marcotte. Le problme des origines dans la philosophie de Bergson. Diss. U of Montral, 1945:
260. Montral, Quebec: privately published, 1945. Print. Eng. trans. The Problem of Origins in
Bergsons Philosophy.
Enrique Molina. Ciencia y intuicin en el dovenir social; discurso de incorporacin como miembre
honorario de la Facultad de Ciencias Jurdicas y Sociales de la Universidad de Concepcin.
Santiago, Chile: Ed. Nascimiento, 1945: 66. Print. Eng. trans. Science and Intuition in the Social
Process.
Swami Prabhavananda. Vedanta for the Western World. Hollywood: Marcel Rodd, 1945. Print. This item
contains an essay by the author titled Buddha and Bergson, pp. 288-93.
Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges. LIde de cration et ses retentissements en philosophie. Paris: Aubier,
Editions Montaigne, 1945: 229. Print. Eng. trans. The Idea of Creation and Its Resonances in
Philosophy.
Leopoldo Zea. El torno a una filosoa americana. Mexico City: El Colegio de Mxico, Centro de
Estudios Sociales, 1945: 78. Jornadas, 52. Print. Eng. trans. The Turn Toward an American
Philosophy.
1946
Otokar Balcar. Zakldy Bergsonovy filosofick soustavy. Filosofick revue, 14 (1946): 74-78, 112-18.
Print. Eng. trans. Foundations of Bergsons Metaphysical System.
Charles Du Bos. Pages de journal (22 fvrier 1922 et 30 janvier 1923). Revue de Paris, 53.10 (Oct.
1946): 48-57. Print. On pp. 48-52, the author describes a conversation with Bergson on Feb. 21,
1922. Bergson stated opinions on the necessity of ordinary ethical rules, on his early development
(including his gradual rejection of the views of Herbert Spencer), the composition of Time and
Free Will (the original version was much more fully developed), Rousseau, duration.
Jos Ferrater Mora. Introduccin a Bergson. Los dos fuentes de la moral y de la religin, by Henri
Bergson. Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 1946: 392. Print.

Pierre Francastel. Bergson et Picasso. Mlanges 1945, vol. 4. Etudes philosophiques. Paris: Les Belles
Lettres, 1946: 200-03. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and Picasso.
R. Garrigou-Lagrange. God: His Existence and His Nature: A Thomistic Solution of Certain Agnostic
Antinomies. 5th ed., vol. 1. Trans. Dom Bede Roso. St. Louis, MO, and London: B. Herder Book,
1946: 392. Print. On pp. 99-100 the author criticizes E. LeRoys Bergsonian type of sensualism
or nominalism which stands in the way of his understanding the proofs of Gods existence. On
pp. 163-72 the author notes that Bergsons evolutionism has been refuted in advance via
Aristotles criticisms of Heraclitus. On pp. 37-39 the author shows that Bergsons philosophy
leads to pantheism. In general the author provides typical Thomistic conceptions of Bergsons
philosophy. See pp. 177, 180. Brief critical remarks on Bergson can also be found in vol. 2 of this
work (1946, same publisher).
Andr George. Le Temps, la vie, et la mort. Vie Intellectuelle, 43.1 (1946): 121-46. Print. The author
contends that Bergsons notion of biological time is corroborated by research into physiological
time by Pierre Lecomte du Noy. Eng. trans. Time, Life, and Death.
Mr Hsnuddin. Falsafah-yi Bargasn. Haidarbd: Maktabah-yi Ibrhmiyah, 1946: iv, 96. Print. Eng.
trans. The Philosophy of Bergson.
Frantiek Kopen. O Bergsonovi. Jazykmylenkyskutenost. Filosofick revue, 14 (1946): 14952. Print. Eng. trans. Concerning Bergson. Language. Thought. Reality.
Louis Lavelle. LExistence. Ed. Jean Grenier. Paris: Gallimard, 1946. See Le pass ou lavenir spirituel
(pp. 103-25.). Print. Eng. trans. The Past or the Spiritual Future.
Emilio Oribe. Lucrecio in Encyclopedia de educacin. Montevideo, Uruguay (Jan. 1946): 3-93. Print.
Sebastiain Tauzan. Bergson y So Tomas. Conflicto entre a intuio e a intelligencia. Pref. Trirao de
Athayde. Rio de Janiero: Descle de Brouwer, 1946. Print. See Sapientia, Jan.-Mar 1937.
Jean Wahl. Essai sur le nant dun problme (Sur les pages 37-84 de Ltre et le Nant de J. P. Sartre).
Deucalion, 1 (1946): 41-72. Print. This is a careful, thorough critique of Sartres treatment of
negation: a treatment which, the author insists, unsatisfactorily negates several important
problems. The author argues at several points (pp. 43, 48, 50, 54, 61, 68-69, 71) Sartres
dependence on Bergson, the unfairness of some of his criticisms. The views of Bergson, Hegel,
and Heidegger are presented throughout as counterpoint to Sartres concept of negation. Eng.
trans. An Essay on the Negation of a Problem (On Pages 37-84 of Being and Nothingness).
George Werner. Bergsons Interpretation of Intuition Applied to the Conduct of Religious Living.
Thesis. U of Chicago School of Divinity, 1946: 93. Print.
1947
Jacques Chevalier. Bergson. Trans. Emiliano Zazo. Brescia: Morcelliana, 1947: 144. Print.
Guido de Ruggiero. Filosofa del Siglo XX. Buenos Aires: 1947: 289. Print. Eng. trans. Twentieth Century
Philosophy.

Juan David Garca Bacca. Nueve Grandes Filsofos Contemporneos y Sus Temas. Vol. 1. Bergson,
Husserl, Unamuno. Caracas: Imprenta Nacional, 1947. Print. Eng. trans. Nine Great
Contemporary Philosophers and Their Theories.
Jean Sangeleer. Du ct de chez Bergson : le bergsonisme et lesthtique de Marcel Proust. Diss., Lic.
Rom. filol. K. U. Leuven, facult de philosophie et lettres, 1947-1948. Print. Eng. trans.
Bergsons Way: Bergsonism and Marcel Prousts Aesthetic.
________. Interview with J.-P. Sartre Concerning the Jewish Question. La Revue juive (Geneva), 10
Anne, Nos. 6-7, juin-juillet 1947, 212-213. This interview took place in summer, 1939, but was
not published until after the war. Sartre states: My personal experience is that Jewish
contributions to philosophy are contradictory. Perhaps the argument were always hearing about
the restless, critical, and uncreative Jew may apply to Brunschvicg, but not to Bergson or
Spinoza. Quoted in Michel Contat and Michel Rybalka. The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre. Vol.
I. A Bibliographical Life. Trans. R.C. McCleary. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press,
1974, 174-176.
Hjalmar Sundn. La Thorie bergsonienne de la religion. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1947:
319. Bibliothque de philosophie contemporaine; histoire de la philosophie et philosophie
gnrale. Print. The author pursues a critical but essentially affirmative study of Bergsons
religious thought, with numerous helpful references to literature in anthropology, archeology, and
the history of religion. He examines Bergsons influence on N. Sderblum and F. von Hgel, and
the influence on Bergson by Plotinus, M. Scheler, A. Comte, E. Boutroux, C. Bernard, and D.
Essertier. Interesting comparisons of Bergson with S. Freud and with C. G. Jung are also
developed. Eng. trans. Bergsons Theory of Religion.
Fernando Vela. Abreviature de La evolucin creadora de Henri Bergson. Buenos Aires: Revista de
Occidente Argentina, 1947. Print. Eng. trans. Abridgement of Bergsons Creative Evolution.
Ian Campbell Wees. Le comique chez Molire tudi daprs les thories de Bergson. Thesis
(Department of French), U of Manitoba, 1947: 105. Print. Eng. trans. Comedy in Molire
Studied via the Theories of Bergson.
Ramn Xirau. Duracin y existencia: tesis que presenta para obtenir el grado de doctor en filosofa.
Mxico, D. F.: Universidad Autonoma de Mxico, 1947: 115. Print. Eng. trans. Duration and
Existence: Thesis Presented to Obtain the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Leopoldo Zea. El torno a una filosofa americana. Buenos Aires: Lib. El Ateneo, 1947: 80. Print. Eng.
trans. The Turn Toward an American Philosophy.
1948
Otakor Balcar. Prameni nboenstv v pojeti Henri Bergsona a ve svtle ethnologie: Kriticka studie.
Kromeriz: K. Kryl, 1948: 283. Print. Eng. trans. The Sources of Religion in Bergsons Thought
and in the Light of Ethnology: Critical Studies.
Raymond Bayer. De la nature de lhumour. Revue dEsthtique, 1.4 (1948): 329-48. Print. The author
uses Bergsons distinction between laughter and comedy as a starting point, and employs
Bergsons theory of the comic to analyze disguised morality. Eng. trans. On the Nature of
Humor.

Herbert Wildon Carr. Byonhwa chulhag. Trans. Clarence C. Hahn. Kyoungsung (Seoul), Korea:
Chosunmoonhwayeongoosa, 1948: 130. Print. Eng. trans. The Philosophy of Change.
Max Eastman. Enjoyment of Laughter. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1948: xv, 608. Print. The author
produces an original theory of laughter. He discusses Bergsons view of laughters hostility and
intellectual appeal, plus presumed contradictions in Bergsons theory.
Etienne Gilson. Discours lAcadmie franaise, 29 mars 1947. Etudes Bergsoniennes, 1 (1948): 18083. Print. This speech, given on the occasion of the authors reception into the Acadmie
franaise, praises three figures: L. Lvy-Bruhl, J. Bdier, and Henri Bergson. The author recounts
Bergsons impact on his own thought. This item also contains passages from the authors La
Gloire de Bergson, Tribune de Genve, 29 May 1947. Print. Eng. trans. Discourse at the French
Academy March 29, 1947.
Henri Gouhier. Philosophie et religion dans la pense de Bergson. Cours publique la Sorbonne 19461947. Les Etudes Bergsoniennes, 1, 1948: 186-87. Print. This course, consisting of eleven
lectures, follows the development of Bergsons thought. The author explains how mystical
experience can have philosophical value even though it is not part of the philosophers
experience. Bergson is a philosopher of religion, not (like Kierkegaard and Pascal) a religious
philosopher. Eng. trans. Philosophy and Religion in Bergsons Thought. Public Course at the
Sorbonne, 1946-1947.
Adolphe Lazareff. Vie et connaissance. Trans. from Russian B. de Schloezer. Paris: Vrin, 1948: 135.
Print. This item contains a chapter on Bergson. Eng. trans. Life and Consciousness.
Jacques Maritain. La philosophie bergsonienne. tudes critiques. 4th ed. Paris: P. Tequi, 1948: lxix, 383.
Print. Eng. trans. Bergsons Philosophy; Critical Studies.
Enrique Molina. Dos filsofos contemporneos: Guyau-Bergson. 2nd ed. Rev. y aumentada. Santiago:
Nascimiento, 1948: 323. Print. Eng. trans. Two Contemporary Philosophers: Guyau-Bergson.
Franois Meyer. La Pense de Bergson. Paris: Bordas, 1948: 124. Pour connatre. Print. Eng. trans.
Bergsons Thought.
V. S. Narvane. The Aesthetic Philosophy of Rabandranath and Bergson. Philosophical Quartery
(India), 21.4 (Oct. 1948): 141-54. Print.
Walter Pagel. J. B. van Helmont De tempore and Biological Time. Osiris, 8 (1948): 246-417. Print.
The author, on pp. 414-15, sketches similarities between van Helmonts philosophy of time,
duration, and biology, and that of Bergson. The similarities are striking. (Ed.)
Louis Weber-Silvain. Begriff Intuition bei Descartes, Pascal und Bergson. Lucerne, Switzerland:
Bchdruckerei Schpfheim, 1948: 67. Beilage zum Jahresbericht der kant. hhern Lehranstalten
1947/1948. Print. Eng. trans. The Concept of Intuition in Descartes, Pascal and Bergson.
Andre Tetry. Les Outils chez les tres vivants. Prf. Lucien Cunot. Paris: Gallimard, 1948, 312. Eng.
trans. Tools in Living Things.

1949
G. R. Grozev. Bergsonizm i dialekticheski materializm, Godishnik na Sofiskiia Universitet
(istorkofilos. Fakult. Kn. 1), 46 (1949-1950): 83-232. Print. Bergsons psychology is viewed here
as a form of bourgeois subjective-idealist psychology, and his views of heredity and
development are seen as idealist and antiscientific. The psychology of Pavlov is in decisive
opposition to the Bergsonian introspectional, subjective conception of consciousness and the
psyche, and understands as conscious activity highest nervous activity; that which is conditioned
by the [influencing] action of the external world. Summary in Russian and French. I. D. London.
Psychological Abstracts, 27.1.10 (Jan. 1953): 2. Eng. trans. Bergsonianism and Dialectical
Materialism.
Jean Hyppolite. Du bergsonisme lexistentialisme. Mercure de France, 1031 (July 1949): 403-16.
Print. The author states that the passage from Bergsonism to existentialism in French thought
does much to explain the historical situation circa 1949. Existentialism emerges through a
criticism (sometimes unjust) of the presumed weaknesses of Bergsons philosophy. The author
proposes to: 1. discern the existential elements in Bergson, and 2. show how Bergson fails to
meet certain contemporary exigencies. Eng. trans. From Bergsonism to Existentialism.
Henri Clouard. Histoire de la Littrature franaise du symbolisme nos jours. Vol. 2. 1915-1940. Paris:
A. Michel, 1949: 699. Print. The author refers to Bergson and his (in a broad sense) literary
influence at many points. See his comparisons of Bergson and P. Valry (pp. 32, 46), his
references to Bergson and George Simenon (pp. 360-61). See also LAnti-bergsonien Benda,
pp. 134-40, and Epigones bergsoniennes, pp. 485-88. Eng. trans. History of French Literature
from Symbolism to Our Time.
E. Duprel. Le Problme sociologique du rire in Essais pluralistes. Paris: Presses Universitaires de
France, 1949: 27-69. Print. This is a classic criticism of Bergsons theory of laughter. Eng. trans.
The Sociological Problem of Laughter.
Juan David Garca Bacca. Sobre la msica: lo que dijo Leibniz y lo que contradijo Bergson. Cultura
Universitaria (Venezuela?), 11-12 (Jan.-Apr. 1949): 57-71. Print. Eng. trans. Concerning Music:
Leibniz Statement and Bergsons Contradiction of It.
Jean Guitton. LExistence temporelle. Paris: Descle de Brouwer, 1949: 190. Print. For annotation see the
author, 1989. Eng. trans. Temporal Existence.
Kamal El Hage. Introduction et commentaire en arabe de LEssai sur les donnes immdiates de la
conscience. Thesis. Paris, dactyl. 1949. Print. Eng. trans. Introduction and Commentary in
Arabic on Time and Free Will.
Charles S. Milligan. The Relevance of Bergsons Philosophy. Illif Review, 6.1 (1949: 9-20. Print.
Robert Mosse-Bastide, trans. LIde de lieu chez Aristote. Etudes Bergsoniennes, 2 (1949): 29-104.
Print. French translation of Bergsons Latin thesis, Quid Aristoteles de Loco Senserit (Aristotles
Concept of Place).
R.-M. Moss-Bastide. Introduction to the Translation by Robert Moss-Bastide of Quid Aristoteles de
loco senserit by Henri Bergson. Les Etudes Bergsoniennes, 2, 1949: 9-25. Print. The author
examines the three principal themes explored in Bergsons Latin thesis: 1. A discussion of
spatial realism in the light of Zenos paradoxes. 2. A partial agreement with Kants

transcendental idealism. 3. A meditation on Aristotelian dynamism. The author also explores the
sources of Bergsons thought in Aristotle and his commentators and provides an outline of
Bergsons basic contentions in his thesis.
Richard Walter Peltz. On the Relationship Between Metaphysics and Aesthetics in the Philosophy of
Bergson. Thesis. U of Chicago, 1949: 69. Print.
Marcel Proust. Letters to a Friend. Trans. Alexander and Elizabeth Henderson. Pref. Georges de Lauris.
London: Falcon Press, 1949: 196. Print. See Prousts letter to Georges de Lauris, 1909: I am
glad you read some Bergson and liked it. It is as if we had been together on a mountaintop. I
dont know LEvolution Cratrice (and because of the great store I set on your opinion I will read
it at once). But I have read a fair amount of Bergson, and the parabola of his thought being
sufficiently describable after a single generation no matter what Creative Evolution may follow, I
can not fail to understand what you mean when you speak of Bergson. I suppose I have told you
in what high esteem I hold him and also something less interesting, although it does reveal a
moral aspect that he has always been very good to me (pp. 150-51). Georges de Lauris notes in
the preface (p. 12) that the principal works that Marcel Proust read were those of Saint-Simon,
Chateaubriand, Sainte-Beuve, Bergson, and Mle.
Agnes Antonio Regan. Philosophical Ideas Common to the Writings of Henri Bergson, T.E. Hulme, and
T.S. Eliot. Thesis. Montana State U, 1949: 123. Print.
Betty Jean Mallett Smith. The Philosophy of Herbert Wildon Carr. Thesis, Brown U, 1949. Print.
Jules Vuillemin. Ltre et le travail : les conditions dialectiques de la psychologie et de la sociologie.
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1949: 181. Bibliothque de philosophie contemporaine.
Psychologie et sociologie. Print. Hannah Arendt (1958, 350n) states that, though the authors
logic here is Hegelian, his terminology is Bergsonian. She describes Vuillemin as one of a school
of thinkers (including E. Berth, A Tilger, and G. Sorel) who use Bergsons ideas to deal with the
nature of work. Eng. trans. Being and Work.
Fritz Strich. Deutsche Klassik und Romantik: Oder Vollendung und Unendlichkeit. Bern: A. Franche,
1949: 374. Print. See pp. 321-22 for Bergsons ideas on comedy and tragedy. Eng. trans. German
Classic and Romantic: Or, Fullness and Endlessness.
Simone Weil. Lenracinement. Paris: Gallimard, 1949, 381. Eng. trans. Taking Root. The author presents
a radical critique of Bergson in the third part of this work.
1950
E. Aubouin. Humour et transfert. Revue dEsthtique, 3.3-4 (July-Dec. 1950): 369-87. Print. This
article develops an incongruity theory of laughter. The author criticizes Bergson for confusing
comedy with ridicule. Eng. trans. Humor and Transfer.
S. Baumgarten. Une Figure soi-disant comique : le snob. Revue dEsthtique, 3.3-4 (July-Dec. 1950):
343-48. Print. The author examines the snob via several theories of the comic, including
Bergsons. Eng. trans. A So-called Comic Figure: The Snob.

Raymond Bayer. La farce et la pense judicatoire. Revue dEsthtique, 3.3-4 (July-Dec. 1950): 274300. Print. The author argues that laughter is directed more at the social milieu than (Bergsons
view) at the mechanical. Eng. trans. Farce and Judicial Thought.
Alexis Carrel. Rflexions sur la conduite de la vie. Paris: Plon, 1950: xix, 241. Print. For annotation see
the author, 1952. Eng. trans. Reflections on the Conduct of Life.
J. Chaix-Ruy. LEssence du rire. Revue dEsthtique, 3.3-4 (July-Dec. 1950): 219-64. Print. The author
uses Baudelaire, Vico, and Schopenhauer to show the limits of Bergsons theory of laughter. Eng.
trans. The Essence of Laughter.
P. Ginastier. LHumour, expression sociologique. Revue dEsthtique, 3.3-4 (July-Dec. 1950): 349-68.
Print. The author argues that Bergsons viewpoint cannot account for a social theory of humor.
Eng. trans. Humor, Sociological Expression.
H. Gouhier. Condition du comique. Revue dEsthtique, 3.3-4 (July-Dec. 1950): 301-09. Print. The
author argues against Bergson that the comic type is not a generalized but an intensified
abstraction. Eng. trans. Condition of the Comic.
Ch. Lalo. Le Comique et le spirituel. Revue dEsthtique, 3.3-4 (July-Dec. 1950): 310-27. Print. The
author argues that Bergson fails to distinguish wit from the comic. Eng. trans. The Comic and
the Spiritual.
Jean Leclercq. Vers la socit base sur le travail. Revue de Travail, 51.3 (Mar. 1950). Print. The author
states that only Bergson introduced the concept of Homo faber into the circulation of ideas. (See
H. Arendt, 1958: 136n.)
Andr Maurois. Scrittori del nostro tempo. Milano: Mondadori, 1950: 216. Biblioteca moderna
Mondadori, 99. Print. This is an Italian translation of the authors Etudes littraires, vol. 1. Eng.
trans. Writers of Our Time.
James C. ONeill. Philosophy and Criticism: Bergson and Thibaudet. Modern Language Quarterly,
11.4 (Dec. 1950): 492-97. Print. The author argues that Albert Thibaudet was a Bergsonian, Prof.
L. Spitzers opinions notwithstanding.
Jacob Paludan. Sogende sander: redegoreiser og debatter. Copenhagen: S. Hasselbalch, 1950: 174. Print.
The author reflects on Bergsons philosophy in several of his essays. See especially Bergson og
parapsykolgien (Eng. trans. Bergson and Parapsychology).
Michele Federico Sciacca. Le problme de Dieu et de la religion dans la philosophie contemporaine.
Trans. J. Chaix-Ruy. Paris: Aubier, 1950: 287. Philosophie de lEsprit. Print. This item contains
an essay on Bergsons philosophy of religion. Eng. trans. The Problem of God and of Religion in
Contemporary Philosophy.
Eudoro do Sousa. O pensamiento eloquente e romantico de Leonardo Coimbra. in Leonardo Coimbra.
Porto: Livraria Tavaris Martins, 1950, 117-126. Eng. trans. On the Eloquent and Romantic
Thought of Leonardo Coimbra.
David Victoroff. Le Rire et le rve. Revue dEsthtique, 3.2 (1950): 265-73. Print. The author suggests
that Freuds Wit and Its Relations to the Unconscious may have been inspired in part by

Bergsons earlier reflections on the relations between laughter and dreams. See pp. 265-66n. Eng.
trans. Laughter and [the] Dream.
Alexander P. Wilson. The Concept of Human Freedom in Bergson and James. Diss. U of Washington
at Seattle, 1950. Print.
1951
John Achamma. An Interpretation of Ghandis Religious Philosophy in the Light of Bergsons Two
Sources of Morality and Religion. Thesis. Indiana U, 1951: 491. Print.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Matisse: His Art and His Public. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951: 591. Print.
See The Portraits of Yvonne Landsberg, 1914, pp. 184-85. The author speculates: Bergsons
Creative Evolution . . . may well have provided a metaphysical background or atmosphere not
only for Futurists and cubists but for Matisse, too, in this particular painting . . . (p. 185).
Werner Barzel. Henry Bergson und die katholische Kirche. Stimmen der Zeit, 1951-1952: 143-48. Print.
Eng. trans. Henry Bergson and the Catholic Church.
I. M. Bochenski. La filosofa actual. 2nd ed. Trans. Eugenio Imar. Mxico: Fondo de Cultur Econmica,
1951: 137. Print. Eng. trans. Contemporary Philosophy.
John Bowditch. The Concept of lan vital: A Rationalization of Weakness in E. M. Earle, ed. Modern
France: Problem of the Third and Fourth Republics. Princeton: Princeton U Press, 1951: 32-43.
Print. The author argues, speaking of the years 1910-1914, that when . . . French labor leaders of
those years, for instance, boasted of the lan rvolutionnaire of their fellow workers or French
military writers gloried in the furia franesa exhibited by their countrymen on hypothetical
battlefields, they were, in effect, fabricating myths as a means of escape from the unpleasant task
of coming to grips with the hard realities of their twentieth-century world (p. 33). The author
deals specifically with revolutionary syndicalism, which he describes as the official ideology of
the French General Confederation of Labor (CGT) through the outbreak of World War I, and with
that part of the French military establishment that gloried in the doctrine of loffensive
outrance (pp. 34-35). The weaknesses of the French labor movement and the French military
could not be made up for by a retreat into myth.
Guido de Ruggiero. LUltimo Bergson in La filosofia contemporanea. Bari: Laterza, 1951: 203-14.
Print. Eng. trans. The Final Bergson.
James K. Feibleman. Ontology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1951: xix, 507. Print. The author refers
briefly to Bergsons metaphysics and theory of morality.
James Edward Griffiss. Proust and Bergson, An Approach to the Problem of Poetry and Philosophy.
Thesis. Johns Hopkins U, 1951: 98. Print.
Rowland Collinge Marshall. The Possible and the Actual in the Philosophy of Bergson. Thesis. U of
Western Ontario, 1951: 227. Print.
Rose-Marie Moss-Bastide. Pour faciliter aux lves la lecture de Matire et mmorie. Revue de
lEnseignement philosophique, 1.4 (Oct.-Dec. 1951). Print.

Andr Ombredane. LAphasie et llaboration de la pense explicite. Paris: Presses Universitaires de

France, 1951: 440. Bibliothque de philosophie contemporaine, psychologie et sociologie. Print.
See especially Ch. 8, Les Iconoclastes : Bergson et Pierre Marie, pp. 138-60. See pp. 203-08 for
similarities between the Wurzburg School and Bergsons schma dynamique; p. 246 for
Bergsons influence on R. Mourgue and W. Van Woerkom; pp. 330-36 for a discussion of
schma dynamique and the disintegration of voluntary apprehension of verbal statements. The
author uses Bergsons notion of language comprehension to explain the behavior of aphasics.
Eng. trans. Aphasia and the Elaboration of Implicit Thought.
Jeanne Parain-Vial. Aperus sur les consquences mtaphysiques dune phnomnologie de lattente.
Etudes philosophiques, 6.1 (Apr.-Sept. 1951): 182-92. Print. The author discusses the views of E.
Minkowski. Eng. trans. Insights into the Metaphysical Consequences of Waiting.
Alfred Schutz. Choosing Among Projects of Action. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 12
(1951); 161-84. Print. This essay is found in Schutz Collected Papers, vol. 1, 67-96.
G. N. M. Tyrrel. Homo Faber: A Study in Mans Mental Evolution. London: Methuen, 1951: 205. Print.
This is a reflection on, and development of, Bergsons contention that man is best understood as
Homo faber (man the maker, fabricator), not as Homo sapiens (man the knower) (see pp. 5159). Mans intelligence is adapted, via his evolutionary history, to geometry (see pp. 83-118) and
to mechanical concepts. In order to understand the world and ourselves in depth, the, we must
transcend our adaptedness: we must cease carrying over into philosophical speculation the
concepts and attitudes developed in species-specific, pragmatic behavior. In place of Bergsons
lan vital the author urges a theory of emergent evolution.
1952
Henri Brocher. Les tapes de la pense humaine. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1952: 147. 1st ed. F. Alcan,
1934. Print. The author finds the first origins of human thought in the spontaneous activity of the
human spirit, and argues that we must look to the modern era for the most satisfactory attempts
to interpret that activity. He insists that Bergsons theory of the genesis of the intelligence
furnishes us with a complete and clear account of this genesis (p. 11). On pp. 83-99 he analyzes
Bergsons account of the development of mechanism. Bergsons critique has great value when
applied to modern scientific thought. But Bergson failed to satisfactorily consider the primitive
mentality.
John Robert Bross. The Role of Creativity in Metaphysics and Religion. Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia
University, 1951, 205. Dissertation Abstracts, 12.1, 1952, 75-76.
Alexis Carrel. Reflections on Life. Trans. Antonia White. Intro. Anne Carrel. New York: Hawthorn
Books, 1952: 205. Print. This book, the authors last, finds the author in agreement with Bergson
on any number of points: instinct and intelligence (pp. 49-51), education and intellect (p. 55),
basic tendencies of life (p. 68), the place of mind in evolution (pp. 73-77), the nature of
personality (p. 82), and others. One also finds in the author a strange admixture of physiologism
and social Darwinism which are, if anything, antibergsonian. This is a translation of Carrels
Reflections on the Conduct of Life (195).
Jeanne Delhomme. Note sur Bergson et la musique. Revue Musicale, 26.210 (Jan. 1952): 89-91. Print.
Eng. trans. Note on Bergson and Music.

Gilbert Maire. Un Ami dHenri Bergson : Joseph Desaymard. Etudes bergsoniennes, 3 (1952): 158-59.
Print. This is a resum of Maires talk followed by a discussion. Eng. trans. A Friend of Henri
Bergson: Joseph Desaymard.
Gabriel Marcel. Metaphysical Journal. Trans. Bernard Wall. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1952: xiii, 344.
Gateway Edition, 6116. Print. For brief annotation see the author, 1927.
Carlo Mazzantini. Il tempo como slancio vitale nellintuitionismo di Bergson in Il tempo. Como:
Cavalleri, 1952: 43-54. Print. Eng. trans. Time as Vital Impetus in the Intuitionism of Bergson.
Michele Federico Sciacca. El problema de Dios y de la religin en la filosofa actual. Trans. A. Pacious,
rev. by A. Matons. Barcelona: Miracle, 1952: 301. Print. Eng. trans. The Problem of God and of
Religion in Contemporary Philosophy.
Sanislas Sice. Hommage Bergson. Allocution du 6 mai 1949. Les Etudes Bergsoniennes, 3 (1952):
200-03. Print. This is a speech given during the dedication of a memorial plaque at Bergsons
former home on the Boulevard Beausjour, Paris. The speaker characterizes Bergsons thought as
spiritual throughout.
1953
Lucien Collin. Bergson. Un Homme de chrtient. Amrique Franaise, 11.3 (May-June 1953): 35-37.
Print. Eng. trans. Bergson: A Man of Christianity.
Pierre Daninos. Le tour du monde du rire. Paris: Hachette, 1953: 288. Print. Eng. trans. A World Tour of
Laughter.
Kosaku Matsuura. Beruguson. Tokyo: Kawadeshobo, 1953: 330. Sekai dai shiso zenshu, 1[16]. Print.
Eng. trans. Bergson.
Kathleen Nott. Mr. Hulmes Sloppy Dregs in The Emperors Clothes. Bloomington: Indiana U Press,
1953: 56-104. Print.
Anbal Snchez-Reulet. A Philosophy and Its Consequence. Amricas, 5.7 (July 1953): 36-37. Print.
Ellis Sndoz. Myth and Society: A Comparative and Critical Study of the Writings of Edward Burnett
Taylor, Henri Bergson, and Henri and Henrietta Antonia Frankfort, Proposing to Demonstrate the
Irrational Nature of the Bases of Political Order. Thesis. Louisiana State U, Department of
Political Science, 1953: v, 141. Print.
David Victoroff. Le rire et le risible. Introduction la psycho-sociologie du rire. Paris: Presses
Universitaires de France, 1953: 193. Print. The author criticizes Bergsons theory of laughter at
length, arguing that laughter is charged with emotion, that it not only punishes rigidity it
reprimands people for their lack of spontaneity. Eng. trans. Laughter and the Laughable:
Introduction to the Psychosociology of Laughter.

1954
Jeanne Ancelet-Hustache. Un baptis de dsir : Henri Bergson (1859-1941). Brussels: Foyer NotreDame, 1954: 15. Eng. trans. Baptised by Desire: Henri Bergson (1859-1941).
Jeanne Ancelot-Hustache. Deux mes cherchaient la vrit : Jacques et Rasa Maritain in F. Lelotte,
S.J., Convertis du XXe sicle. Vol. 1. Paris and Tournai: Casterman; Bruxelles: Foyer NotreDame, 1954: 151-66. Print. See Les Cours dHenri Bergson, pp. 157-59. Eng. trans. Two
Souls Seeking the Truth: Jacques and Rasa Maritain.
William Wallace Cayard. The Concept of Freedom in Bergson, Hocking, and Berdyaev. Thesis.
Oberlin College, 1954: vi, 118. Print.
Errol Harris. Nature, Mind and Modern Science. London: Allen & Unwin, 1954: xvi, 455. Print. See
especially 393-99, Philosophies of Evolution. The author argues that in attempting to resolve
the Renaissance dualism Bergson merely annihilates one of its terms. How are we to
conceive, for instance, of a life-force which is at once a force and yet not material, and which
presses on againstnothing? Also: if matter as we manipulate it (i.e., as bodies with sharp
outlines) is unreal, how can we act on it? But if matter is the relaxed life force then the material
world must in reality be much as we conceive it in science and intellect need not be impugned as
a source of illusion (the author urges similar criticisms in his The Reality of Time, SUNY, 1988,
pp. 47-48).
Alfredo Roldn. El movimiento, el tiempo, la duracin. Quito, Ecuador. Universidad Centrla Anales,
82.337 (1954): 213-35. Print. Eng. trans. Movement, Time, Duration.
Antonio Snchez Barbudo. El pensamiento de Abel Marin y Juan de Mairena y su relacin con la
poesa de Antonio Machado. Hispanic Review, 22 (1954): 32-74, 109-65. Print. The author deals
with the influence of Bergson on Machado. Eng. trans. The Thought of Abel Martin and Juan
de Mairena and Its Relation to the Poetry of Antonio Machado.
David Victoroff. Rire avec Gide. Revue dEsthtique, 71. (1954): 85-93. Print. The author argues that
Bergsons theory of laughter is limited through Bergsons too heavy reliance on Molire and
Labiche. Eng. trans. Laughter with Gide.
Clifford A. Winter. Exposition and Critical Analysis of Emergent Evolution. Thesis. Butler U, 1954: iii,
67. Print. The author deals with biological evolution in terms of Bergson, C. L. Morgan, and S.
Alexander.
1955
Etienne Borne. Sur les Philosophies de la vie et de laction (Bergson et Blondel). Recherches et Dbats,
10 (1955): 133-65. Print. On the Philosophies of Life and Action (Bergson and Blondel).
Hilary Ray Brown. Bergsons Account of the Development of a Moral Obligation in a Closed Society: A
Critical Appraisal. Thesis. U of Arizona, 1955: 74. Print.
Omadaka Hisayuki. Kagaku hyumon: Beruguson no tachiba tatte. Tokyo: Kadokawashoten, 1955: 154.
Kadokawa shinso. Print. Later republished in 1975, Tokyo: Tokyodaigakushuppankai. Eng. trans.
Bergsons Theory of Science.

Fernand Lelotte. Henri Bergson, Clara Sheridan, Gabriel Marcel, Sigrid Undset Tournai: Casterman,
1955: 246. Convertis du XXe sicle, 3. Print.
Raphael Seligmann. Masot pilosofiyot. Tel Aviv: Hotsaat agudat ha-sofrim ha-lvrim le-yad Devir, 1955:
235. Sifre nefesh. Print. This item contains an essay concerning Bergson on pp. 87-129.
Jerome Stolnitz. Notes on Comedy and Tragedy. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 16.1
(1955): 45-60. Print. The author argues against Bergson that comedy contains emotion, but an
emotion more limited and less exalted than the emotion of tragedy.
1956
Andr Gide. Voyage au Congo. 85th ed. Paris: Gallimard, 1956: 249. Print. See pp. 43-44 for Gides
attitude toward Bergson. For annotation see the 1929 Eng. trans., Voyage to the Congo.
Martial Guroult. Berkeley. Quatre tudes sur la perception et sur Dieu. Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1956.
An English translation of the title of this item is: Berkeley. Four Studies Concerning Perception
and Concerning God. Cf. esp. 108-16.
Jean Guitton. La existencia temporal. Buenos Aires: Ed. Sudamericana, 1956: 242. Bibliografia de
Filosofa. Print. Eng. trans. Temporal Existence.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty. LExistence et la dialectique in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, ed., Les Philosophes
clbres. Paris: Editions dart Lucien Mazenod, 1956: 288-91. Print. The author relates the
thought of Bergson and Husserl to the concept of intuition. Intuition and dialectic are not
incompatible. (In The Visible and the Invisible (1968), however, he conflates Bergsons and
Husserls views as the philosophy of intuition.) Eng. trans. Existence and the Dialectique.
Franois Meyer. Pour connatre la pense de Bergson. 3rd ed. Paris: Bordas, 1956: 116. Pour connatre.
Print. Eng. trans. Toward Understanding Bergsons Philosophy.
Raymond L. Miller. Some Implications for Religion of an Ontology of Emergence. Thesis. Butler U,
1956: iii, 98. Print. The author deals with Bergson, A. N. Whitehead, S. Alexander, C. L. Morgan.
Micheline Sauvage. Temps proustien et temps populaire. Esprit, 24.235 (Feb. 1956): 230-38. Print.
This is a highly critical review of Bergson and Proust by Floris Delattre. Eng. trans. Proustian
Time and Popular Time.
Michele Federico Sciacca. La filosofa hoy. 2nd ed. Trans. C. M. Rossi and J. J. R. Cuevas. Barcelona:
Miracle, 1956: xii, 542. Print. Eng. trans. Contemporary Philosophy.
Hjalmar Sundn. Ett samtal med Henri Bergson in Sjuttiotredje psalmen och andra esser. Stockholm:
Svenska Kyrkans Diakonistyrelsos Bokfrlag, 1956: 41-62. Print. Eng. trans. A Conversation
with Henri Bergson.
Claude Tresmontant. Essai sur la pense hbraque. 2nd ed. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1956: 169. Print.
Eng. trans. An Essay on Jewish Thought.

1957
Martin Buber. Pointing the Way: Collected Essays. Trans. Maurice Friedman. New York: Harper &
Brothers, 1957: 239. Print. See Bergsons Concept of Intuition, pp. 81-86. This is the
concluding section of an essay published in 1943 as an introduction to the Hebrew translation of
Bergson. The author holds that Bergsons intuition abolishes the distinction between knower and
known and alters the characteristics of the known rather than recognizing them. Bergson also fails
to understand art, the artist, instinct, and life.
Henri Bergson. Mmoire et vie. Textes choisis par Gilles Deleuze. 2nd ed. Paris: Presses Universitaires de
France, 1957: 151. Les grands textes; bibliothque classique de philosophie. Print. Eng. trans.
Memory and Life: Texts Chosen by Gilles Deleuze.
Armando Carlini. Breve storia della filosofia. Firenze: Sansoni, 1957: 214. Print. Eng. trans. Brief History
of Philosophy.
Ernst Cassirer. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Vol. 3. The Phenomenology of Knowledge. Trans.
Ralph Mannheim. Intro. Charles W. Hendel. New Haven: Yale U Press, 1957: 501. Print. On
pp. 36-41 and 184-90, the author subjects Bergsons philosophy to a careful analysis and
criticism. He asserts that it is the lasting achievement of the Bergsonian metaphysic that it
reversed the ontological relation assumed between being and time (p. 184). However, he
concludes that Bergsons metaphysics and epistemology, good at releasing the mind from
spatiality and fragmentation, is impotent at dealing with the active embodiment and persisting
fulfillment of intuition. Once achieved, Bergsonian intuition lapses into a strange romantic
quietism (p. 187). The true self for Bergson is not the self that reaches and acts outward
(p. 185). (Long passages in The Two Sources and elsewhere provide a very different conclusion.
[Ed.].)
Israel Knox. Comedy and the Category of Exaggeration. Journal of Philosophy, 54.25 (1957): 801-12.
Print. Bergsons theory of laughter does not explain either the full range of laughable incongruity
or the liberation from tension that accompanies laughter.
Gabriela Mistral. Epistolaria. Cartas a Eugenio Labarca, 1915-1916. Ed. and Intro. Ral Silva Castro.
Santiago: Ediciones de los Anales de la Universidad de Chile, 1957: 58. Print. This collection of
letters contains an appendix on Bergson.
Oddino Montiani. Bergson e il suo umanismo integrale. Padova: Cedam, 1957: 307. Print. Eng. trans.
Bergson and His Integral Humanism.
Maria Dolce Nogueira Garcez. Do significato da contribuicao de Bergson para a psicologiae educaao
contemporanea; subsides historia da psicologia educacional. So Paulo, Faculdade de filosofia,
ciencias e letras, 1957: 242. Boletins da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras, Psicologia
educacional, no. 4. Print. Eng. trans. On the Significance of Bergson for Contemporary
Psychology and Education.
A. Pasquali. Renouvier et Bergson. Le problme de la libert. Ph.D. Dissertation, Paris, 1957.
John Passmore. A Hundred Years of Philosophy. New York: Macmillan, 1957: 523. Print. Interesting
similarities between Bergson and William James (pp. 105-08); Bergson, Pragmatism and G.
Sorel, (p. 121); Perry took over from James this emphasis on the human organism, and united
with it a theory of perception which Bergson had sketched in Matter and Memory. A minds

content, Bergson had argued, consists of that part of its environment to which its attention is
momentarily directed. Mind, Perry concluded, is an interested response by an organism. Our
consciousness of a table, for example, consists simply in the fact that our nervous system is
interested in the table. No entity, consciousness, is here involved, not even in the form of a
mental act (pp. 263-64). The author relates Bergson and C. Lloyd Morgan (pp. 271-72),
Bergson and S. Alexander (p. 273).
Cash Powell. The Use of the Comic by William Faulkner: Analyzed with Some Reference to Henri
Bergson. Thesis. Miami U, 1957: 141. Print.
Aim Ricour. Morale et nature dans la philosophie morale de Bergson. Archives de philosophie, 17.1,
1957. Eng. trans. Morality and Nature in Bergsons Moral Philosophy.
M. D. Tsbsenko. Kritika intuitivisma Anri Bergson in iz Istorii filosofii. Moscow: Akademiia
obshchestvannykh nauk, 1957. Print. Eng. trans. Criticism of the Intuitionism of Bergson.
Geoffrey Wagner. Wyndham Lewis: A Portrait of the Artist as the Enemy. New Haven: Yale U Press,
1957: xvi, 363. Print. On pp. 215-16 and 222-25 the author describes how Lewiss theory of satire
derives directly from Bergsons Laughter.
Jean Wahl. Tableau de la philosophie franaise. Paris: Vrin, 1957, 231. An English translation of the title
of this item is: Tableau of French Philosophy. Published originally Paris: Fontaine, 1946. The
three authors most discussed here are Bergson, Comte, and Descartes.
1958
Alain. Correspondance avec Elie Halvy. Preface and notes by Jeanne Michel-Alexandre. Paris:
Gallimard, 1958: 407. Print. See also pp. 406-07 for the authors respect for Bergson, contempt
for his French Catholic followers. See p. 407 for an appreciation of the profound impact of
Bergsons Le Paralogisme psychophysiologique on the Second International Congress at
Geneva, 1904: mmoire qui fit scandale.
Hannah Arendt. The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958: 333. Print. This is a
study of labor, work, and action as fundamental forms of the human condition. The author views
Bergsons definition of man as homo faber man the fabricator as important to thinking on the
subject of labor: The school of Bergson, like its master, idealizes labor by equating it with work
and fabrication (p. 117n). Included in this school are George Sorel, Adriano Tilgher, and
Edouard Berth. Jules Vuillemins Ltre et le travail (1949) still owes to Bergson its
terminology, though its logic is Hegelian (p. 3035n).
S. Subhash Chandra. The Reign of Time in Contemporary Thought. Philosophical Quarterly (India),
35.1 (1958): 49-56. Print. The author refers briefly to time and duration in Bergson on pp. 49-50.
J. C. Davies. Thibaudet and Bergson. A.U.M.L.A. Journal of the Australasian Universities Language
and Literature Association, 9 (Nov. 1958): 48-59. Print. The author explores the influence of
Bergson on the literary critic A. Thibaudet, from his days as Bergsons student through his
mature work. Bergsons influence was decisive.

1959
Gaston Berger. Table-ronde. Nouvelles Littraires, 1677 (Oct. 22, 1959): 1, 5-6. Print.
Claude Bernard. Claude Bernard, extraits de son uvre par E. Dhurot ; avec un expos de sa philosophie
emprunt luvre de Henri Bergson. 4th ed. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1959: 136.
(Philosophes.) Print. This item consists of passages from the work of the French scientist Claude
Bernard along with Bergsons essay on Bernards work.
Jean Brun. Table-rounde. Nouvelles Littraires, 1677 (Oct. 22, 1959): 1, 5-6. Print.
Manuel Gonzalo Casas. Bergson y el sentido de su influencia en Amrica. Humanitas (Tucumn), 8.12
(1959): 95-108. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and the Meaning of His Influence on Latin America.
M.-L. Deshayes. Homo faber. Les Humanits. Classes de lettres, 1 (July 1959): 22-25. Print. Eng. trans.
Man, the Fabricator.
Henri Gouhier. Table-rounde. Nouvelles Littraires, 1677 (Oct. 22, 1959): 1, 5-6. Print.
Jules Isaac. Expriences de ma vie. Vol. 1. Pguy. Paris: Calmann-Lvy, 1959: 378. Print. The author
vividly describes Bergsons lectures and the personal impression he left on his students on pp. 9193. On pp. 363-65, he quotes a passage by Charles Pguy concerning Bergson, Christianity, and
Judaism. (This passage, which stresses the bond between Judaism and Christianity, was later
published in the Revue de la pense juive, April 1910.)
Domique Janicaud. Table-rounde. Nouvelles Littraires, 1677 (Oct. 22, 1959): 1, 5-6. Print.
Vladimir Janklvitch. Quelle est la valeur de la pense bergsonienne ? Arts-Spectacles, 27 May 1959.
Print. This is the text of an interview with Janklvitcch by F. Reiss. It was republished by the
author, Premires et dernires pages, 1994. Eng. trans. What is the Value of Bergsonian
Thought?
K. M.. Kamil. Nietzsche and Bergson in the Domain of Evolutionary and Moral Philosophies. Rajshahi:
International Print. Firm, 1959: xxii, 173. Print.
Gabriel Marcel. Table-rounde. Nouvelles Littraires, 1677 (Oct. 22, 1959): 1, 5-6. Print.
Henri Massis. Bergson et nous. Revue des Deux Mondes, 13 (July 1, 1959): 46-66. Print. This is a
discussion of Bergsons philosophy of religion, on the occasion of a discussion at the Sorbonne of
Bergsons philosophy.
William Nathanson. Kulture kvain, filosofish literarishe esseyen. Buenos Aires: Farlag Yidbu, 1959: 348.
Print. An essay on Bergson appears here on pp. 19-38. Eng. trans. Culture: Philosophical and
Literary Essays.
Georges Poulet. Studies in Human Time. Trans. Elliott Coleman. New York: Harper, 1959: 363. Print.
Donovan Hilton Rawcliffe. Occult and Supernatural Phenomena. New York: Dover, 1959: 551. Print. On
pp. 85-86 the author deals with Bergsons simulation inconsciente.

Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas. Living Biographies of Great Philosophers. Garden City, NY:
Garden City Books, 1959: 335. Print.
Shlomo Zemach. A Theory of Laughter. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 17.3 (Mar. 1959):
311-29. Print. The author uses Bergson to criticize Freud on pp. 320-21. See also pp. 312, 324.
1960
Hugo Dyserinck. Die Briefe Henri Bergsons an Graf Hermann Keyserling. Deutsche Vierteljarsschrift
fr Literaturwissenschaft und Geisesgeschichte, 34.2 (1960): 169-88. Print. These letters by
Bergson to a German philosopher, Keyserling, are presented in the section of this bibliography
devoted to writings by Bergson. A brief English-language annotation is provided for each.
Ch Thiep L. Trit-hoc Bergson. Saigon: Khai-Tr, 1960: 103. Print. This Vietnamese-language item is
an historical and critical account of Bergsons philosophy.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Signes. Paris: Gallimard, 1960: 436. Print. See Bergson se faisant, pp. 229-41
(Eng. trans. Bergson in the Making.); Einstein et la crise de la raison, pp. 242-49 (Eng. trans.
Einstein and the Crisis of Reason.). For annotation see this bibliography, 1964.
K. J. Popma. Henri Bergson, Tijdmysteik. Bezinning, 1960: 61-66. Eng. trans. Henri Bergson, Time
Mystic.
Zeferino Rocha. O misticismo na filosofia de Bergson. Symposium, 1.2-3, 1960, 105-20. Concerning
Mysticism in Bergsons Philosophy.
Carla Schultz-Hoffman. Columi Orizzontali von Umberto Boccioni; zum Begriff der Bewegung im
Futurismus. Pantheon, 38.2 (Apr.-June 1960): 173-86. Print. Eng. trans. Horizontal Volumes
by Umberto Boccioni; on the Concept of Movement in Futurism.
Arsenii Nikolaevich Tchanychev. Filosofija Anri Bergsona. Moscow: Izd-Moskovskogo Universiteta,
1960: 54 pp. Print. Pamphlet. Eng. trans. The Philosophy of Henri Bergson.
Claude Tresmontant. A Study of Hebrew Thought. Trans. Michael Frances Bigson. New York: Desdee,
1960: 178. Print. This item appeared originally in French in 1956.
1961
Mili apek. The Elusive Nature of the Past in Experience, Existence and the Good: Essays in Honor
of Paul Weiss. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1961: 126-42. Print. Republished
in Mili apek, The New Aspects of Time. Boston: Kluwer, 1991: 27-42. Print. The author denies
that any real process is composed of instants, or exists at an instant. He critiques
representationalist and associationist theories of memory, arguing that memory like history if
it is to be valid knowledge, presupposes that the past is indestructible. The immortality of the
past, however, must not be confused with static immutability.
Alberto Castillo Arrez. El espiritualismo bergoniano: ensayo. Caracas: Instituto pedaggico, Direccin
de cultura, 1961: 191. Print. Venezuela, Instituto pedaggico nacional. Caracas. Coleccin
filosfica. Eng. trans. Bergsons Spiritualism: An Essay.

John Howell Glass. Creation and Creativity: An Essay in Philosophical Theology. Dissertation, Yale
University, 1961: 472. Dissertation Abstracts International, 48.7 (1988): 1803A. UMI No. AAC
8721570. Print. This essay examines conflicting claims about the implications of creativity for
Christian theology of Creation. Part I examines the meaning and implications of creativity in the
thought of Bergson, Whitehead, and Wieman. A consensus among them about creativity is
formulated, especially as it bears upon the doctrine of Creation. That bearing consists mainly of
negative criticism of the creature as substantial and the Creator as absolute, together with certain
methodological presuppositions of these views. Part I concludes with a statement of the critical
questions that should be put to classical theology of Creation, if its adequacy to the claims of
proponents of creativity is to be determined. The Conclusion states the most basic issues that the
foregoing Chapters have joined. It concludes that classical theology of Creation, as formulated by
Farrar, meets two decisive conditions. It can sustain itself in the face of criticism in the name of
creativity, and it can appropriate the positive contentions of its negative critics.
T. A. Goudge. The Ascent of Life: A Philosophical Study of the Theory of Evolution. Toronto: University
of Toronto Press, 1961: 236. Print. On pp. 82-83, the author argues that Bergson, Driesch, and
other vitalists who appeal to empirical considerations in support of their theories are not, in spite
of appearances, acting as scientists. See also pp. 102-03.
Garrett Hardin. Nature and Mans Fate. New York: New American Library, 1961: 320. Print. On p. 225
the author describes Bergsons lan vital as a transparently primitive god used to explain
evolution. He has no use for Bergsons ilk.
Edward Hugh Henderson. Experience, Reason, and Time: An Introduction to Process Philosophy
Through the Philosophies of David Howe, William James, and Henri Bergson. Honors paper,
Southwestern University at Memphis, 1961: 71. Print.
Alexandre Koyr. Remarques sur les paradoxes de Znon. Etudes dhistoire de la pense
philosophique. Paris: A. Colin, 1961: 329. Print. Koyr states that Bergson is to be commended
for his renewal of Aristotles view that number is a limit concept derived from physical matter.
These remarks were originally published in German in 1922. Eng. trans. Remarks on Zenos
Paradoxes.
David Hector Monro. Argument of Laughter. (1951; rpt. Notre Dame). South Bend: University of Notre
Dame Press, 1961: 264. Print. The author develops Bergsons theory of laughter throughout and
in a section devoted to his theory. He particularly stresses Bergsons view of laughter as a social
corrective.
Hisayuki Omodaka, ed. Beruguson kenkyii. Kyoto: Keishoboto, 1961: 378. Print. This item, which
contains essays by Tokuo Sakata, Hisayuki Omodaka, and Furansu Tetsugaku Kenkyukai,
contains a bibliography on pp. 274-78. Eng. trans. Bergson Studies.
Georges Sorel. The Decomposition of Marxism in Irving Horowitz, Radicalism and the Revolt Against
Reason. Trans. Irving Horowitz. New York: Humanities Press, 1961: 201-54. Print. See p. 253n
where Sorel, citing Bergsons Creative Evolution, criticizes the illusion of the utopians that the
character of the future can be deduced from knowledge of the present.

1962
G. Bouthoul. Le phnomne guerre : mthodes de la polmologie, morphologie des guerres, leurs
infrastructures (technique, dmographie, conomique). Paris: Payot, 1962: 288. Petite
bibliothque Payot, 29. Print. See pp. 24 et seq. In his Bergson Politique (1989), p. 275, P. Soulez
notes that an entire school of polmologie has adopted certain Bergsonian principles as
starting-points in its investigations. This is one example of the work of this school. Eng. trans.
The Phenomenon of War.
David Genrikhovich Elkin. Bocpe epee. Moscow: Academiya Pedag. Nauk, 1962: 309. Print.
Eng. trans. The Perception of Time.
Etienne Gilson. El filsofo y la teolgia. Trans. G. Torrente Ballester. Madrid: Guadarrama, 1962: 288.
Cristianismo y Hombre Actual, 32. Print. Eng. trans. The Philosopher and Theology.
Jane Ellen Harrison. Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion. 2nd ed. Rpt. Cleveland,
OH: World Pub. Co., 1962: 559. Meridian Books, M145. Print. The first edition of this book was
published in 1911, the second in 1927. In her introduction to the first edition (included here), the
author notes that the two great influences on her thinking are Bergson and Emile Durkheim. From
Bergson she derives the idea that . . . Dionysos, with every other mystery-god, was an instinctive
attempt to express what Professor Bergson calls dure, that life which is one, indivisible, and yet
ceaselessly changing (p. xii). The Olympians, by contrast, are a work of analysis, of reflections
and intelligence (p. xii). From Durkheim she derives the idea that it is group and not individual
consciousness that gives rise to the mystery gods.
Vladimir Janklvitch. Bergson and Judaism. Trans. Edouard Roditi. Menorah Journal, 49.1-2
(Autumn-Winter, 1962): 34-58. Print.
Vladimir Janklvitch. Henri Bergson. Trans. Francisco Gonzales Aramburu. Xalapa, Mxico, 1962: 379.
Biblioteca de la Facultadad de Filosofa, Letras, y Ciencias, Universidad Veracruzana. Print.
Richard Macksey. Proust, Bergson and Other Philosophers. in Proust: A Collection of General Essays.
Ed. Ren Girard. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962, 182.
Jean Nabert. lments pour une thique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1943; Reedited With
Preface, Paul Ricur, Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1962, 1992. An English translation of the title of
this item is: Elements for an Ethic. Nabert here criticizes Bergsons treatment of evil. Cf. F.
Worms, Terrible ralit ou faux problme, 2008, Bergson et la religion, p. 382.
1963
Margaret McCurdy Abadie. William Faulkner: Dynamism, Romanticism, Bergsonism, and The Bear.
1963, 122 pp. Print. This item is in the Tulane University Libraries. It is apparently an M. A.
thesis.
William P. Alston and George Nakhnikian. Readings in Twentieth-Century Philosophy. London: The Free
Press of Glencoe, 1963: 788. Print. See Henri Bergson, 1859-1941, pp. 47-85. This selection
contains an introduction by W. P. Alston, the text of An Introduction to Metaphysics, and a
selected bibliography.

Anne-Lisa Amadou. Henri Bergsons estetik. Minervas kvartalsskrift, 1963: 1-9. Print. Eng. trans.
Henri Bergsons Aesthetics.
Reiner Francis Beerling and B. Delfgaauw, eds. Filosofische geschriften: Rudolf Eucken, Henri Bergson,
Bertrand Russell. Heideland: Hasself, 1963: 394. Pantheon der winnaars van de Nobelprijs voor
literatuur, 33. Print. See B. Delfgaaw, Henri Bergson: inleidung over auteur en werk. Eng.
trans. Henri Bergson: Introduction to the Author and his Work.
Antnio Cameiro Leo. A filosofia no scolo XIX: Pragmatismo, Bergson, Croce. Rio de Janeiro, 1963:
60. Eng. trans. Philosophy in the 19th Century: Pragmatism, Bergson, Croce.
Daniel Fuchs. The Comic Spirit of Wallace Stevens. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1963: viii, 201.
Print. To some extent the author relies on Bergsons categories of the comic to explore Stevenss
concept of comedy.
Vernon Hall. A Short History of Literary Criticism. New York: New York University Press, 1963, xii,
184. The author successively describes main figures in and affecting literary criticism including:
Bergson (1839-1941).
Komatsu Kiyoshi, ed. Gendai furansu no shiso. Tokyo: Kawadeshoboshinsa, 1963: 415. Print. This item
deals with several figures including Alain, A. Malraux, H. Bergson. Eng. trans. Contemporary
French Thinkers.
Wyndham Lewis. Letter to Theodore Weiss, April 19, 1949 in W. K. Ross, ed. The Letters of Wyndham
Lewis. Norfolk, CN: New Directions, 1963: 488-90. Print. Here Lewis recalls his attendance at
Bergsons lectures and acceptance of Bergsons philosophy, followed by his later radical
rejection of it.
Karl Popper. The Open Society and its Enemis. Vol. 1. The Spell of Plato, Vol. 2, The High Tide of
Prophecy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963, 351 and 420.
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. Willa Cather: A Memoir. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963: iii,
312. Print. See pp. 265-66. This item was originally published in Philadelphia by Lippincott,
1953.
Regina Wolf. Der Einfluss Bergsons auf Pguy. Dissertation, Univ. Graz, 1963: 114. Eng. trans.
Bergsons Influence on Pguy.
1964
Antoon Burgers. De perceptie bij Bergson en Merleau-Ponty. Dissertation. KU Leuven, Hoger instituut
wijsbegeerte, 1964: vii, 303. Print. Eng. trans. Perception in Bergson and Merleau-Ponty.
Andr Cresson. Bergson, sa vie, son uvre. Avec un expos de sa philosophie par Andr Cresson. Paris:
Presses Universitaires de France, 1964: 159. Philosophes. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson: His Life and
Work.
Ren Uribe Ferrer. La crisis del arte contemporneo: ensayos. Medelln, Colombia: Universidad
Pontificia Bolivariana, 1964: 63. Print. This item contains a section on the influence of St. Teresa
on Bergson. Eng. trans. The Crisis of Contemporary Art: Essays.

Ramon Guthrie and George E. Diller, eds. Prose and Poetry of Modern France. New York: Scribners,
1964: xxvii, 491. Print.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Einstein and the Crisis of Reason in Signs. Trans. with Intro. Richard C.
McCleary. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964: 192-97. Print. In this essay the author
opposes Bergsons attitude toward and interpretation of relativity physics to that of Einstein.
Einstein was a classical thinker who assumed that the world is rational. He found no way to
justify his rationalism, however, and could not explain why his equations should or did
correspond perfectly with the universe. This contradiction, the author urges, actually puts reason
in jeopardy. Bergsons position, by contrast, offered Einstein a way of reconciling his seemingly
paradoxical physical theory with the ordinary experience of men. For Bergson, as his argument in
Duration and Simultaneity shows, . . . rationality and the universal are founded anew, not on the
divine right of dogmatic science, but upon the prescientific evidence that there is one single world
. . . (p. 196). Bergson believed he had provided a basis for Einsteins theory of multiple times in
his concept of duration.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Le Visible et linvisible. C. Lefort, ed. Paris: Gallimard, 1964: 360. Print. For a
brief annotation of this work, see the English translation, 1968. Eng. trans. The Visible and the
Invisible.
Giuseppi Prezzolini. Uomini 22 e cita 3. Firenze: Vallechi, 1964: 313. Print. This item (originally
published in 1920) contains essays titled Spunti e sistema: Il Bergson and Spunti e sistema: Il
Bergson in Francia. Eng. trans. Sources and System: Bergson and Sources and System:
Bergson in France.
Andr Robert. Juars et lunit de ltre. Paris: Seghers, 1964: 191. Philosophie de tous les temps, 9.
Print. This study of the French political leader Juars contains a discussion of Jaurs and Bergson.
Eng. trans. Juars and the Unity of Being.
Michele Federico Sciacca. Il problema di Dio e della religione nella filosofia attuale. 4th ed. Milano:
Marzorati, 1964: 391. Opere, 21. Print. Eng. trans. The Problem of God and Religion in
Contemporary Philosophy.
Hans Titze. Kausalbegriff in Philosophie und Physik. Meisenheim am Glan: A. Hain, 1964: 216. Print.
See pp. 18-21 for an appreciation of Bergsons concept of duration. Eng. trans. The Concept of
Causality in Philosophy and Physics.
Ren Uribe Ferrer. La crisis del arte contemporneo: ensayos. Medelln: Universidad Pontifica de
Bolivariana, 1964: 63. Print. This item contains an essay on the influence of St. Teresa on Henri
Bergson: Influencia de Santa Teresa en Henri Bergson.
1965
Anne-Lisa Amadou. Dikteren og hans werk: En studie i Marcel Prousts estetikk. Oslo: Erichsen, 1965:
200. Print. Eng. trans. The Writer and His Work: A Study of Marcel Prousts Aesthetic.
Maria Teresa Antonneli. La filosofia di H. Bergson. Domodossola: La Cartotecnica, 1965. Print. Eng.
trans. The Philosophy of Henri Bergson.

Robert Buttel. Wallace Stevens, Bergson, Pater. in The Art of the Mind: Essays on the Poetry of
Wallace Stevens. Eds. H. Pearce and J.H. Miller. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965, 287.
Mili apek. El Impacto Filosfico de la Fsica Contempornea. Madrid: Editorial Tecnos, 1965: 411.
Coleccin Estructura y Funcin. Print. Eng. trans. The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary
Physics.
Giordano B. Cavagna. La dottrina della conoscenza in Enrico Bergson. Napoli: Instituto editoriale del
Mezzogiorno, 1965: 317. Print. Eng. trans. Henri Bergsons Doctrine of Consciousness.
Alister Clavering Hardy. The Living Stream: A Restatement of Evolution Theory and Its Relation to the
Spirit of Man. London: Collins, 1965: 292. Print. In Lord Gifford and His Lectures (Edinburgh:
Scottish Academic Press, 1986), Stanley L. Jaki cites this work as . . . a rehabilitation of
Bergsons lan vital with the help of Teilhard de Chardins spiritualization of Darwin (p. 32).
Clara Dan. Determinism si creatie in filozofia lui Bergson. Revista de filozofie, 12.12, 1965, 1587-1603.
This is a Romanian language journal, published in Bucharest. Eng. trans. Determinism and
Creativity in Bergsons Philosophy.
Gerhard Funke. Lebensmetaphysik bei Henri Bergson und Genealogie des Bewusstseins. in Hostia,
1965-66, 273-63. An English translation of the title of this item is: Metaphysics of Life in Henri
Bergson and the Genealogy of Consciousness.
Henry Hcaen and Ren Angelergues. Pathologie du langage, laphasie. Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1965:
200. Langue et langage. Print. See especially LAntiassociationnisme ou laphasie comme
trouble intellectuel (pp. 44-50). The author states on p. 44 parce que Bergson avait publi en
1896 Matire et mmoire, certains nhsitent pas situer P. Marie comme le disciple neurologiste
du philosophe ( because Bergson published Matter and Memory in 1896, some have not
hesitated to make him a neurologist-disciple of the philosopher.) Eng. trans. Pathology of
Language: Aphasia.
Robert A. McDermott. Prophetic Mysticism in Bergsons Philosophy of Religion. Thesis. Emory U,
1965: iv, 69. Print.
Jean Piaget. Sagesse et illusions de philosophie. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1965: 288. Print.
A second edition or printing of this work, of 309 pages, also appeared in 1965. For annotation,
see the author, 1971. Eng. trans. The Wisdom and the Illusions of Philosophy.
David Joe Ragan. Edmund Husserls Phenomenological Theory of Lived Time and its Advantages
over Henri Bergsons Theory of Duration. Thesis. Tulane U, 1965. Print.
Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges. Lunivers et lme. Pref. M. F. Moos. Paris: Editions ouvrires, 1965: 95.
Print. The author deals with Bergson, P. Teilhard de Chardin, and the nature of evolution. Eng.
trans. The Universe and the Soul.
1966
James Oliver Bennett. Henri Bergson and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: A Comparative Study. Honors
thesis. Austin College, 1966: viii, 92. Print.

Claus-Michael Brandt. Der Aphasiebegriff Henri Bergsons im Zeitalter positivisticher

Kortexlokalisationslehre. Inaugural dissertation. Munich, 1966: ill., 239. Print. Eng. trans.
Henri Bergsons Concept of Aphasia in the era of Positivistic Cortext Localization Theory.
Mili apek. Time and eternity in Royce and Bergson. Revue internationale de philosophie, 79-80.1-2
(1966): 22-45. Print. Royces ultimate failure to take time seriously, in spite of strenuous
attempts to do so, are discussed here in terms of Royces specific response to Bergsons
temporalism (see J. Royce, 1910).
Maurice de Gandillac. Scission et connaissance daprs lart potique de Claudel. Revue de
Mtaphysique et de Morale, 71 (1966): 412-25. Print. Also (rev.) in Entretiens sur Paul Claudel.
Eds., George Cattaui and Jacques Madaule. Paris, The Hague: Mouton, 1968: 115-30. Print. The
author makes many comparisons of Claudels concept of perception with that of Bergson. Eng.
trans. Schism and Consciousness in the Poetic Art of Claudel.
Mortimer Guiney. La Posie de Pierre Reverdy. Genve: Georg, 1966: 264. Print. The author places
Reverdy in a broad cultural and political context, suggesting links between Reverdy and Camus,
Jung, and Bergson.
Alister Clavering Hardy. The Divine Flame: An Essay Towards a Natural History of Religion. London:
Collins, 1966: 254. Print. In Lord Gifford and His Lectures (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press,
1986), Stanley L. Jaki cites this work as . . . a rehabilitation of Bergsons lan vital with the help
of Teilhard de Chardins spiritualization of Darwin (p. 32).
H. Stuart Hughes. The Obstructed Path: French Social Thought in the Years of Desperation, 1930-1960.
New York: Harper & Row, 1966: 304. Print. On pp. 10-12 the author examines the decline of
Bergsons philosophy in France, with special emphasis on the effect of the First World War. He
notes Bergsons influence on French historians and students of society, who rejected Max
Webers ideal-type method and sought an immersion in the flux of reality instead. (On this
latter point see also pp. 24, 295.) On pp. 72-75 he briefly explores the relations between Bergson
and Jacques Maritain; on pp. 84-85 he notes Gabriel Marcels Bergsonian inspiration; on
pp. 148-49, 150, he examines Charles de Gaulles Bergsonism. See also pp. 194-95 for M.
Merleau-Pontys Bergsonian sympathies, p. 251 for P. Teilhard de Chardin and Bergsons
(strong) influence, pp. 265-66 for Bergson and C. Levi-Strauss.
Jean-Jacques Latour. La Nature dans la pense de Whitehead in Ide du monde et philosophie de la
nature. Eds., Rgis Jolivet, Maurice Ndoncelle, Stanislas Breton, Jean Chtillon, Dominque
Dubarle, and Jean-Jacques Latour. Paris: Descle de Brouwer, 1966: 147-207. Print. This is a
careful, clear, very well-thought-out commentary on Alfred North Whiteheads The Concept of
Nature (1920). The author makes numerous comparisons of Bergson and Whitehead. See
especially Whitehead, Bergson et Einstein, pp. 147-52; Science, philosophie, mtaphysique de
la nature, pp. 157-59; and Nature, Dure, Evnements, pp. 174-79. The author finds Bergson
and Whitehead in agreement on the primacy of quality over quantity (pp. 151-52), the primacy of
perception (pp. 158-59), the creative evolution of nature (p. 176), the passage of nature (p. 176n),
the unreality of instants (p. 178), and the interrelation of the concrete and the abstract (pp. 18182). They disagree concerning the primacy of (Heraclitean) flux over Parmenidean permanence
(p. 154), the distinction between philosophy and science (pp. 157-58), and the terms duration
and time (p. 175n). The author nowhere makes an explicit comparison of Bergsons and
Whiteheads views on relativity theory.

Robert Holland McFadden. Bergsons Critique of Positivism: Implications for Historical

Understanding. Thesis. Duke U, 1966: 122. Print.
Theresa Clare Morkovsky. Freedom in Henri Bergsons Metaphysics. Dissertation. St. Louis U, 1966:
436. St. Louis: DAI 27.09 (1966): 3084A. Print.
Jean Piaget. Autobiographie. Cahiers Vilfredo Pareto, No. 10, 1966, 129-59.
George J. Seidel. The Crisis of Creativity. Notre Dame: Notre Dame U Press, 1966: 182. Print. The author
explores the character of creativity, especially in its historical aspects in Aristotle, Bacon,
Descartes, Kant, Freud, Hume, and Bergson, then discusses the influence of modern technology
on man as a decisionmaker. See pp. 113, 140-45. The author regards Bergson as the father of
most modern theories of creativity.
Mary Lyons Temple. Proust and Bergson: The Relation of Relatives. Papers on Proust by Seven
Hollins College Students. Hollins, VA: Hollins College, 1966: 55-56. Print.
Lawrance Thompson. Robert Frost: The Early Years. New York: Holt, 1966: xxvi, 641. Print. On
pp. 381-82, 579-81, the author describes Frosts enthusiasm for Bergsons Creative Evolution.
Kang Wu. Po-ko-sen che hsueh. Tai-pei shi: Tai-wan Shang mu yin shu kuan, Min Kuo 55, 1966: 274.
Series title: Che hsueh tsung shu. Print. See Pen shu tso che chu shu chien piao, pp. 272-74.
Nathan Zach. Zeman ve-ritmus etsel Bergson uva-shirah ha-modernit. Tel Aviv: Alef, 1966: 73. Print.
Eng. trans. Time and Rhythm in the Writing of Bergson and in Modern Poetry.
1967
Carlo Antoni. Il tempo e le ide. Ed., Michele Biscione. Napoli: Edizione Scientifiche Italiane, 1967: vii,
581. LAcropoli, nuova ser. 4. Print. Eng. trans. Time and Idea.
Maurice Cranston. Freedom. 3rd ed. London: Longmans, 1967: 131. Print. The author briefly states and
then criticizes Bergsons theory of freedom on pp. 98-100. He denies that creative act and free
act are equivalent.
Theodosius Dobshansky. Creative Evolution. Diogenes, 58, 1967, 62-74.
Raymond Duchamp-Villon. Kinds of Awareness of Artistic Creation in Raymond Duchamp-Villon,
1876-1918. Eds., George H. Hamilton and William Agee. New York: Walker, 1967: 120-25.
Print. This is a translation of Duchamp-Villons essay of 1916, Variations de la connaissance
pendant le travail dart. For a discussion of Duchamp-Villons Bergsonism, see M. Antliff, 1996.
Leon Dujovne. Henri Bergson y Martin Buber in Conferencias: Instituto de Intercambio Cultural
Argentino Israeli. Argentina: Instituto de Intercambio Cultural Argentino Israeli, 1967: ill, 223.
Eng. trans. Henri Bergson and Martin Buber.
Henri Gouhier. Bergson e il Cristo des Evangiles. Trans. Sergio Marzorati. Milan: Ed. Instituto di
Propaganda Libraria, 1967: 200. Studi e opinioni. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and the Christ of the
Gospels.

Daniel Vernon Gribben. The Influence of Henri Bergson on the Early Novels of William Faulkner.
Thesis. Tulane U, 1967: ii, 26. Print.
Frank Kermode. The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction. New York: Oxford U Press,
1967: xi, 187. Bryn Mawr College, Mary Flexner Lectures, 1965. Print. The author conjoins form
and duration on p. 57; Wyndham Lewis and Bergson on pp. 109-11. For his concept of rhythm
see p. 118; Wyndham Lewis and Bergsonian bohemianism, p. 122; uses of duration and the
spatialization of time, pp. 176-79.
Arthur Koestler. The Act of Creation. New York: Dell, 1967: 751. Print. The author develops an original
theory of laughter, criticizing Bergsons theory for its difficulties in dealing with incongruity,
various comic types, and the tragic.
Guy LaFrance. Bergson et la philosophie scientifique. Proceedings of the VIIth Inter-American
Congress of Philosophy, 2 (1967): 348-54. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and Scientific
Philosophy.
Irving J. Lee. The Language of Wisdom and Folly: Background Readings in Semantics. New York:
Harper, 1949; San Francisco: International Society for General Semantics, 1967: xxii, 361. Print.
See Henri Bergson, The Mobile World, pp. 15-16, reprinted from pp. 157-58 of Creative
Evolution. Bergson speculates here on the nature of human, as opposed to insect, language.
Human language is extensible to many sorts of things. Insect language is not.
Roberto Murillo Zamora. La notion de causalit dans la philosophie de Bergson. Diss. U de Strasbourg,
1967. Print. Eng. trans. The Notion of Causality in the Philosophy of Bergson.
Alberto Osorio Osorio. Etude sur la pense religieuse de Bergson et dUnamuno. 2 vols. Diss. U
Bordeaux, 1967: 167, 382. Print. Eng. trans. A Study of the Religious Thought of Bergson and
Unamuno.
Emile Rideau. Pguy et Teilhard de Chardin. Amiti Charles Pguy, 133 (1967) 3-24. Print. The author
finds many themes in common between Pguy and Teilhard, including their Bergsonism.
Hans A. Schmitt. Charles Pguy: The Decline of an Idealist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U Press,
1967: 211. Print. The author refers several times to Bergson and Pguy, noting that, for example,
in the years 1900-1905, though Pguy was to change his mind often, Bergson alone remained
the fixed star in his ideological firmament (p. 103).
David Thoreau Wiecks. Funny Things. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 25.4 (1967): 437-47.
Print. The author develops a social theory of Laughter and compares it to Bergsons theory.
1968
Philippe R. Amidou. Memory and Duration in Bergson: A Study in Terminology in Matter and memory
and An Introduction to Metaphysics Diss. St. Louis U, 1968. Print.
Madeleine Barthlemy-Madaule. Lire Bergson. Les tudes bergsoniennes, 8 (1968): 83-120. Print. This
item is a critical response to Deleuzes La conception de la diffrence in Bergson. Eng. trans.
Reading Bergson.

Jack Burnham. Beyond Modern Sculpture. New York: George Brazailler, 1968: 402. Print. See pp. 56-68,
Bergson: the Poetics of Vitalism. The author traces the influence on Bergsons thinking on the
theoreticians of early twentieth-century sculpture, Herbert Read and Henri Focillon. See also
pp. 68-70, 76, 77.
Edward Caird. Contemporary Religious Thinkers: From Idealistic Metaphysics to Existential
Theologians. Ed. J. Macquarrie. London: SCM Press, 1968: xii, 292. Forum Books. Print.
Bergson is briefly treated here, along with many other persons.
Georges Canguilhem. tudes dhistoire et de philosophie des sciences. Paris: Vrin, 1968, 335-64. Cf.
Problmes et controverses. An English translation of the title of this item is: Problems and
Controversies.
Georges Canguilhem. Le concept et la vie in Georges Canguilhem, Etudes dhistoire et de philosophie
des sciences. Paris: Vrin, 1968: 335-64. Print. This essay contains numerous significant insights
into Bergsons treatment of biology. The author distinguishes Bergsons biology from those of
Kant and Hegel. He notes Bergsons reformulation of his concept of general ideas in The Creative
Mind. (See pp. 348-53.). He criticizes Bergson (pp. 362-63) for failing to pay sufficient attention
to topology and statistics as alternative ways of viewing life. This is a fascinating re-reading and
critique of Bergsons philosophy of biology in the light of the new molecular biology.
Gilles Deleuze. Le Bergsonisme. 2nd ed. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968: 124. Initiation
philosophique, 76. Print.
Gilles Deleuze. Diffrence et rptition. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968: 416. Bibliothque
de philosophie contemporaine. Print. Eng. trans. Difference and Repetition.
Charley Guyot. De Rousseau Marcel Proust. Pref. Arnold Reymond. Neuchtel: Editions Ides et
Calendes, 1968: 235. Print. This item contains an essay by C. Guyot titled Pguy et Bergson.
Eng. trans. From Rousseau to Marcel Proust; Pguy and Bergson.
Thomas Hanna. The Compass Points of the Comic and Pathetic. British Journal of Aesthetics, 8.3
(1968): 284-94. Print. The author argues that Bergson proposes an incongruity theory of the
comic, which Bergson does not adequately distinguish from the pathetic.
Walter Kerr. Tragedy and Comedy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968: 350. Print. See pp. 175-76, 24345.
John Maquarrie. Contemporary Religious Thinkers From Idealist Metaphysicians to Existential
Theologians. New York: Harper & Row, 1968: xii, 285. Print.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The Visible and the Invisible. Trans. Alphonso Lingis. Ed. Claude Lefort.
Evanston, Illinois: Nothwestern University Press, 1968, lvi, 282. (Northwestern University
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) Cf. especially Interrogation and
Intuition. 105-29.
Morio Nakajima. Beruguson to gendai. Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1968: 209. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and
Contemporary Thought.

Charles Oulmont. Bergson : en coutant et en lisant. Souvenirs personnels. Paris: Istra, 1968: 40. Charles
Oulmont, uvres completes, 6. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson: Listening to Him and Reading His
Work: Personal Reminiscences.
Georges Politzer. La Fin dune parade philosophique. Le Bergsonisme. Paris: Pauvert, 1968: 191. Print.
Eng. trans. The End of a Philosophical Parade: Bergsonism.
Kjell Strmberg. La petite histoire de lattribution du prix Nobel Henri Bergson in LEvolution
cratrice by Henri Bergson. Paris: Presses de Compagnonnage, 1968: 9-14. Print. Eng. trans.
The Short History of the Award of the Nobel Prize to Henri Bergson.
Sadao Tajima. Kozoshugi to benshh. Chiuoda, Tokyo: Serika Shob, 1968, 428. An English translation
of the title of this item is: Structuralism and Dialectics.
Jean Theau. La Critique bergsonienne du concept. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France; Toulouse:
Private, 1968: 621. Print. Eng. trans. The Bergsonian Critique of the Concept.
Alexander Stephen Toth. Joyce-Bergson Correspondence in the Theory and Time Structure of
Dubliners, A Portrait, and Ulysses. Diss. U of Southern California, 1968: ii, 164. San Diego:
UMI 69-13090, 1968. Print.
Rik Van den Panhuyzen. Ex via mystica: kritik en waardering voor het godsbewijs van Bergson. Diss.
K. U. Leuven, 1968: ix, 268. Print. Eng. trans. From the Mystic Way: A Critical Evaluation of
Bergsons Proof of God.
Homer Lee Walker. Bergsons Laughter and Faulkners Soldiers Pay, The Hamlet and As I Lay Dying.
M.A. thesis, U of Redlands, 1968: 95. Print.
1969
Carlo Antoni. Bergson in Vite di pensatori. Torino: Edizioni RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, 1969: 5-10.
Print.
Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein, and Henri Piron. Remarks Concerning Relativity Theory in Bergson
and the Evolution of Physics. Ed. and trans. Pete A. Y. Gunter. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press,
1969: 123-35. Print.
ngel Benito y Durn. San Agustn y Bergson. La conciencia psycolgica, punto de partida de
metafsicas divergentes. Augustinas, 14 (Jan.-June, 1969): 95-134. Print. Eng. trans. St.
Augustine and Bergson. Psychological Awareness as a Beginning Point for Divergent
Metaphysics.
D. E. Berlyne. Laughter, Humor, and Play in The Handbook of Social Psychology. Vol. 3. The
Individual in a Social Context. Eds. Gardner Lindzey and Elliot Aronson. London: AddisonWesley, 1969: 795-852. Print. The author cites Bergsons theory of laughter, along with those of
T. Hobbes and A. Bain, as a superiority theory. He asks (p. 800) whether plays on words and
departures from customary sequences of events do not exhibit a flexibility which belies Bergsons
description of the laughable as an encrustation of the mechanical on the living. On p. 812 he
states Bergsons contention that the humorist is a disguised moralist and notes the use of humor in
teaching and ego-defense.

Arthur Berndtson. Art, Expression, and Beauty. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969: 305. Print.
The author relies heavily on Bergsons metaphysics of creativity in his analysis of the artist as
creator.
W. Berteval. Bergson and Einstein in Bergson and the Evolution of Physics. Ed. and trans. Pete A. Y.
Gunter. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1969: 214-27. Print.
Robert Blanch. The Psychology of Duration and the Physics of Fields in Bergson and the Evolution of
Physics. Ed. and trans. Pete A. Y. Gunter. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1969: 105-20. Print.
J. F. Busch. Einstein and Bergson, Convergence and Divergence of Their Ideas in Bergson and the
Evolution of Physics. Ed. and trans. Pete A. Y. Gunter. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1969:
208-14. Print.
Mili apek. Bergsons Theory of Matter and Modern Physics in Bergson and the Evolution of Physics.
Ed. and trans. Pete A. Y. Gunter. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1969: 297-30. Print.
Vere C. Chappell. Time and Zenos Arrow in Bergson and the Evolution of Physics. Ed. and trans. Pete
A. Y. Gunter. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1969: 253-74. Print.
Olivier Costa de Beauregard. Certain Aspects of the Irreversibility of Time in Classical and Quantum
Physics in Bergson and the Evolution of Physics. Ed. and trans. Pete A. Y. Gunter. Knoxville: U
of Tennessee Press, 1969: 77-105. Print.
Olivier Costa de Beauregard. The Principle of Relativity and the Spatialization of Time in Bergson and
the Evolution of Physics. Ed. and trans. Pete A. Y. Gunter. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press,
1969: 227-50. Print.
Louis de Broglie. The Concepts of Contemporary Physics and Bergsons Ideas on Time and Motion in
Bergson and the Evolution of Physics. Ed. and trans. Pete A. Y. Gunter. Knoxville: U of
Tennessee Press, 1969: 45-62. Print.
Louis de Broglie. Introduction to The Concept of Time in Modern Physics and Bergsons Pure
Duration in Bergson and the Evolution of Physics. Ed. and trans. Pete A. Y. Gunter. Knoxville:
U of Tennessee Press, 1969: 62-63. Print.
Bernard M. I. Delfgaauw. Twentieth-Century Philosophy. Trans. N. D. Smith. Albany, NY: Magi Books,
1969: 174. Print. See The Philosophy of Evolution, pp. 93-102.
Theodosius Dobzhansky. On Cartesian and Darwinian Aspects of Biology. in Philosophy, Science, and
Method. Eds. S. Morgenbresser et al. New York: Saint Martins Press, 1969, 165-78.
Manuel Gonzalo Casas. Bergson y el sentido de su influencia en Latinoamrica. Humanitas (Tucumn,
Argentina), 7.12 (1969): 95-108. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and the Meaning of His Influence in
Latin America.
Henri Gouhier. Les Mditations mtaphysiques de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Paris: Vrin, 1969: 282. Print.
The author cites similarities between the person of Jesus in Bergson and Rousseau on pp. 40, 205,
225; he shows parallels between Bergsons and Rousseaus treatment of intellectual effort on
p. 181. Eng. trans. The Metaphysical Meditations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Jean Goulet. La raction anti-spencrienne chez Bergson. Diss. U of Ottawa, 1969. Print. Eng. trans.
Bergsons Anti-Spencerian Reaction.
Robert Charles Grogin. The French Intellectuals Reactions to Henri Bergson, 1900-1914. Diss. New
York U, 1969: vii, 277. DAI 30.06 (1969): 2459A. Print. The author states: This dissertation
examines what the French intellectuals were saying about Bergson, and his philosophy,
particularly after 1900, and attempts to determine why, given the cultural setting of France in
those years, they responded as they did.
Andr Metz. Einsteins Time and Philosophy in Bergson and the Evolution of Physics. Ed. and trans.
Pete A. Y. Gunter. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1969: 135-65. Print.
Andr Metz. Reply to Bergson in Bergson and the Evolution of Physics. Ed. and trans. Pete A. Y.
Gunter. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1969: 187-89. Print. For annotation, see the author
(Un Dernier Mot . . .), 1924.
Mara Cndida de Costa Reis Montiero Pacheco. A dimenso temporal definidora duma antropologia em
S. Gregrio de Nissa e Bergson. Actas de Assembleia Internacional de Estudios Filosficos.
Braga, Portugal: Faculdade de filosofa, 1969: 153-64. Print. Eng. trans. Concerning the
Temporal Dimension Defined via Anthropology in St. Gregory of Nissa and Bergson.
William Osler. Biblioteca Osleriana. Montral and London: McGill-Queens U Press, 1969: 792. Print.
Osler notes attending Bergsons introductory lecture on G. Berkeleys Sirus Dec. 12, 1908.
Bergson considered Sirus to be remarkable because of its interweaving of philosophical
discourse and reflections on the virtues of tarwater. Bergson lamented that the French edition of
Sirus, published in Amsterdam, was quite unobtainable. (Osler had purchased a copy of it, in
Paris, a month earlier.)
Erik Oger. De sociale wijsbegeerte van Henri Bergson. Diss. K. U. Leuven, 1969. Faculteit
economische en sociale wetenshappen. 2 vol. Print. Eng. trans. The Social Sciences in Henri
Bergson.
Jean-Claude Pariente. Bergson et Wittgenstein. Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 23.88-89 (1969):
183-204. Print. LAuteur trouve chez Bergson une division des propositions en trois catgories ;
il la compare celle de Wittgenstein (propositions signifiantes, vides de sens et non-sens). Afin
de prciser la porte de cette convergence, il montre que Bergson et Wittgenstein ont tous les
deux confront langage et spatialit ; mais, tandis que Bergson identifie espace logique et espace
des choses, Wittgenstein les dissocie. Ainsi sexpliquent les diffrences releves dans ltendue
que Bergson et Wittgenstein assignent au champ du dicible. Philosophers Index, 4.2 (summer,
1970): 423. See the author, 1973, for an elaboration of these points.
Gnther Pflug. Inner Time and the Relativity of Motion in Bergson and the Evolution of Physics. Ed.
and trans. Pete A. Y. Gunter. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 1969: 190-208. Print.
Michele Ranchetti. The Catholic Modernists: A Study of the Religious Reform Movement, 1864-1907.
Trans. Isabel Quigley. Oxford: Oxford U Press, 1969: 230. Print. See Ch. 2, LeRoy and
Pragmatism.
Mitsuyoshi Saigusa. Henri Bergson and Buddhist Thought. Philosophical Studies of Japan, 9 (1969):
79-102. Print.

Satosi Watanab. The Concept of Time in Modern Physics and Bergsons Pure Duration in Bergson
and the Evolution of Physics. Ed. and trans. Pete A. Y. Gunter. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press,
1969: 62-76. Print.
1970
Samuel Alexander. Philosophical and Literary Pieces. Rpt. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970: xiii,
380. Print. See also Molire and Life, pp. 164-87. The author criticizes Bergsons view of the
comic character, holding that while Bergsons view holds for certain of Molires characters, it
does not fit others.
Bergson en Espagne. Les confreneces des 2 et 6 mai 1916. Lme humaine, la personnalit. Ed. Juan
Miguel Palacios. Trans. Michel Gauther. Also includes E. Moutsopoulos, La Critique du
platonisme chez Bergson. B. Halda, Bergson et Du Bos. G. Maire, Rencontre de Bergson.
Bibliography by A. K. Marietti. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1970: 228. Les tudes
bergsoniennes, 9. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson in Spain: The Lectures of May 2 and 6, 1916: The
Human Spirit; Personality.
Arthur Berndtson. The Meaning of Power. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 31 (Sept.
1970): 73-84. Print. The author, in developing an original concept of power, discusses
Bergsons leanings toward this term.
Stella Booth. Temporal Dimensions of Existence. Philosophical Journal, 7.1 (1970): 48-62. Print. On
pp. 53-54 the author suggests an influence of Plotinus on Bergsons concepts of life and duration.
S. Chandra. Intuition et instinct chez Schopenhauer et Bergson. Ph.D. diss. Paris, 1970. Print. Eng.
trans. Intuition and Instinct in Schopenhauer and Bergson.
M. T. Christensen. LHumour Gidien dans Les Caves du Vatican. Theoria (South Africa), 34 (1970):
57-76. Print.
Philippe F. Devaux. Philosophie gnrale et logique. Ed. Paul Gochet. Lige: Les Presses Universitaires
de Lige, 1970: 180. Print. This is a summary of the authors De Thales Bergson. Eng. trans.
General Philosophy and Logic.
James K. Feibleman. In Praise of Comedy. New York: Horizon Press, 1970: 284. Print. The author
attempts to demonstrate the ways in which Bergsons metaphysics leads him astray in his theory
of the comic.
R. K. Garg. A Critical Estimate of the Bergsonian Philosophy. Prabuddha Bharata, 75.8 (Aug. 1970):
386-92. Print.
T. A. Goudge. Henri Bergson Louis. Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Vol. 2. New York: Scribners,
1970: 8-12. Print. The author states that Bergson did accept one aspect of Lamarckianism, the
power of varying by use or disuse of certain bodily organs, and the transmission of such
acquired variations to descendants. He cites no passage supporting this claim, however.
Geoffrey H. Hartman. Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958-1970. New Haven: Yale U Press, 1970:
396. Print. On p. 7 the author claims that Bergson views art as an instinctive defense against

social disintegration; on p. 77 he states that Bergson, Proust, and Freud have advertized human
possessiveness and male arbitrariness; on p. 302 he emphasizes Bergsons treatment of myth.
Hans Robert Jauss. Zeit und Errinerung in Marcel Prousts A la Recherche du Temps perdu in Ein
Beitnag zur Theorie des Romans. Rpt. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universittsverlag, 1970: 206.
Print. This study, published in 1955, is a refutation of Kurt Jckels study of Bergson (1934). The
author flatly denies that Bergsons concept of duration influenced Proust, for whom time is a
dimension. (Later ed. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1986: 365.) Eng. trans. Time and
Reminiscence in Marcel Prousts Search for Lost Time.
Georgio Manzano. Primera mirada y crtica de la idea de nada en Bergson. Mxico: Pontificia
Universitas Gregoriano, 1970: 70. Print. University thesis. Pont. Universit Gregoriana (Rome)
No. 2200. Eng. trans. First Glance at and Criticism of the Idea of Nothing in Bergson.
Alberto L. Merani. De Bergson a Henri Wallon: de la filosofa del espritu a la psicologa dialectica.
Caracas: Instituto de Psicologa, Universidad Centrad de Venezuela, 1970: 80. Serie Ensayos.
Print. Eng. trans. From Bergson to Henri Wallon: From the Philosophy of the Mind to Dialectical
Psychology.
Jean Milet. Gabriel Tarde et la philosophie de lhistoire. Paris: Vrin, 1970: 410. Bibliothque dhistoire
de la philosophie. Print. Chapter 3 of this work contains insights into the relations between
Bergson and Tarde. Eng. trans. Gabriel Tarde and the Philosophy of History.
Dragoljub Dragan Nedeljkovic. Romain Rolland et Stefan Zweig. Affinits et influences littraires et
spirituelles, 1910-1942. Paris: Klinckseick, 1970: 389. Bibliothque franaise et romane: Srie C,
Etudes littraires, 21. Print. This is the authors dissertation, written at Strasbourg. Eng. trans.
Romain Rolland and Stefan Zweig. Literary and Spiritual Affinities and Influences, 1910-1942.
Jean-Claude Pariente. Bergson et Wittgenstein in Wittgenstein et le problme dune philosophie de la
science. Aix-en-Provence: CNRS, 1970: 37-57. Actes du Colloque international dAix-enProvence, July 1969. Print. Eng. trans.Bergson and Witgenstein.
Georges Politzer. Freud e Bergson. Ed. and trans. Pierre Naville. Firenze: La nuova Italia, 1970: xxxi,
288. Dimensioni, 10. Print. This is a Marxist celebration of Freud and critique of Bergson. Eng.
trans. Freud and Bergson.
Arturo Schwarz, ed. Dada Italiano. Milan: G. Mazzotta Editore, 1970. Print. In 1.1 Bleu, 1 (July 1920),
Ren Dunan lists T. Tzara as head of the Dada movement and Bergson, along with numerous
other figures, as recent adherents. Eng. trans. Italian Dada.
Maida Jean de Stein. A Study of la dure in Bergson. M.A. thesis, McMaster U, 1970: iii, 111. Print.
Lawrance Thompson. Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph. New York: Holt, 1970: 743. Print. On
pp. 300-04, 324-25, 623-26 the author describes Frosts enthusiasm for Bergsons Creative
Evolution.
Symchah Bunem Urbakh. Mishnato shel Enri Bergson. Pref. E. Amado Lvy-Valensi. Ramat Gan, Israel:
Bar Uryan, 1970: 178. Print. Eng. trans. Bergsons Philosophical Doctrine: Volume One,
Bergsons System Concerning the Elan Vital.

Michael Wyschogrod. Memory in the History of Philosophy in Phenomenology of Memory: The Third
Lexington Conference on Pure and Applied Phenomenology. Eds. Erwin W. Strauss and Richard
M. Griffith. Pittsburg: Duquesne U Press; Louvain: Editions E. Klauwelaerts, 1970: 3-19. Print.
The author concludes his study of memory in Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine with a brief analysis
(pp. 14-19) of Matter and Memory. The author notes the relatively experimental temper of this
book (p. 17), cites Bergsons advance on Aristotles concept of memory (p. 18). He concludes
that for Bergson memory . . . is not a faculty that transports into the consciousness of the present
an image of the past, but is a constituent dimension of temporal consciousness itself without
which consciousness as we know it would be impossible (p. 19).
Jos Xavier Zubiri Apalategui. Cinco lecciones de filosofa. 2nd. ed. Madrid: Moneda y Crdito, 1970:
283. Print. Eng. trans. Five Lectures in Philosophy.
1971
Andrs Alonzo Gonzales. La va racional y la va intuitiva: un estudio sobre la existencia de Dios en A.
N. Whitehead, H. Bergson y Santo Toms, 1971: 176. Print. Partial publication of the authors
doctoral dissertation at the U of Fribourg (Switzerland) appearing as articles in the review
Studium, 16-17. Eng. trans. The Rational Way and the Intuitive Way: A Study of the Existence
of God in A. N. Whitehead, H. Bergson, and Saint Thomas.
Martin Buber. Pointing the Way. Rpt. 1957. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971: x, 239. Print.
See Bergsons Concept of Intuition, pp. 81-86. See item, 1957, for annotation.
S. Subhash Chandra. The Bergsonian Intuition. Prabudha Bharata, 76.3 (Mar. 1971): 107-12. Print.
Bonnie Ruth Arons Clancy. Thought at an Impasse: A Case Study of Philosophical Mysticism. Ph.D.
diss. U of Michigan, 1971: 169. Print.
M. Glowiski and J. Slawiski, eds. Studia o Lemianie. Warsaw: PIW, 1971: 425. Print. In this group of
essays, Bloski analyzes Bergsons influence on Boleslaw Lemians poetic program and rejects
interpretations which link Lemian with Hussserlian trends. Source: Years Work in Modern
Language Studies, 1971: 810. Print. Eng. trans. Study of Lemianie.
Jean Guitton. The Life and Works of Henri Bergson. Trans. Annie Jackson in Nobel Prize Library.
Published Under the Sponsorship of the Nobel Foundation and the Swedish Academy. Miguel
ngel Asturias. Jacinto Benavente. Henri Bergson. New York: Alexis Gregory; Del Mar, CA:
CRM Pub., n.d., 372-76. Copyright 1971, New York: Helvetica Press, Inc. Print.
Oron J. Hale. The Great Illusion. New York: Harper & Row, 1971: xv, 361. The Rise of Modern Europe,
17. Print. On pp. 88-91, 95 the author describes Bergsons philosophy, situating it as one
component of an anti-intellectual revolt in France, 1910-1914.
VaLinda Hathcox. The Tradition of Anti-Rationalism in Modern French Political Philosophy: A
Comparative Epistemological Study of Blaise Pascal, Henri Bergson, and Albert Camus.
Masters thesis, East Texas State U, 1971: v, 107. Thesis no. 1432. Print.
Mark Heirman. Intuitie en intelligentie: de Kenkritische polariteitbij Bergson en Trotignon. Ph.D. diss.
K. U. Leuven (Hoger instituut voor wijsbegeerte), 1971: xvii, 135. Print. Eng. trans. Intuition
and Intelligence: The Epistemological-Critical Polarity in Bergson and Trotignon.

Franco Lombardi. After Hegel in New Studies in Hegels Philosophy. Ed. Warren E. Steinkraus. New
York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971: 221-52. Print. There are several references here to
Bergson, especially to the similarities between Bergsons thought and that of the Italian Hegelian,
Benedetto Croce. See pp. 226, 232, 234, 243-44.
George Mikes. Laughing Matter: Toward a Personal Philosophy of Wit and Humor. New York: The
Library Press, 1971: 133. Print. The author pursues an extensive and appreciative discussion of
Bergsons account of laughter, with emphasis on its function as a social corrective. Published in
Britain as Humor in Memoriam, 1968.
Daniel H. Miller. Henri Bergson, Gabriel Marcel, Albert Camus: The Nature of Individuality in the
Modern World. M.A. thesis, Department of History, U of Kansas, 1971: iii, 142. Print.
Jean Millet. Bergson et le calcul infinitsimal. Thse complmentaire (doctorat dtat), U de Paris IV,
1971. Print. The author argues that Bergsons studies of the infinitesimal calculus had a crucial
influence on his theory of knowledge and metaphysics. Eng. trans. Bergson and the Infinitesimal
Calculus.
Jeffry J. Nichols. A Study of the Application of Henri Bergsons Time-Concept in the Dramatic Writings
of Gertrude Stein. M.A. thesis (speech), U of Maine, 1971: 77. Print.
Jean Piaget. Insights and Illusions of Philosophy. Trans. with Intro. Wolfe Mays. New York: World Pub.
Co. Meridian Books, 1971: 232. Print. In this work the author attacks the view (common in
European intellectual circles) that there is a philosophical psychology different from and superior
to scientific psychology. Among his two chief targets are Bergson and Edmund Husserl. For
Piagets early immersion in, and reaction against, Bergsonism see pp. 5-7, 8-9, 23, 101. For a
thoroughgoing critique of Bergsons philosophy see pp. 88-102. For an appreciative criticism of
memory, action, and the self, see pp. 150-55. For a criticism of Bergsons critique of relativity
physics see pp. 171-77. For Bergsons influence on Lon Brunshvicg, see p. 101. A full
commentary on Piagets critiques cannot be attempted within the limits of an annotation. This is a
rich collection of provocative but questionable criticisms of Bergsons philosophy.
Anthony Edward Pilkington. A Study of Bergson in Relation to Pguy, Valry, Proust and Benda.
Doctoral diss., Oxford U, 1971: viii, 536. Print.
B. Pinkerneil. Ewigkeitsstuppe contra schpferisches Werden. Zum Thomas Mann-Bergson. Thomas
Mann und die Tradition. Ed. Heinz Peter Putz. Frankfurt am Main: Athenaum Verlag, 1971: 25080.; Print. Eng. trans. Against Creative Becoming: Concerning Thomas Mann and Bergson.
Ayyagari Lakshmana Rao. Metaphysical Psychology of Henri Bergson: A Critical Study. Waltair: Andhra
U, 1971: 203. Audhra U Series, No. 93. Print.
Jrgen Schmiddt-Radefeldt. Die Aporien Zenons bei Paul Valry. Romanische Forschungen, 83
(1971): 52-69. Print. Eng. trans. Paul Valry on Zenos Paradoxes.
Kjell Strmberg. The 1927 Prize. Trans. Dale McAdoo in Nobel Prize Library. Published Under the
Sponsorship of the Nobel Foundation and the Swedish Academy. Miguel ngel Asturias. Jacinto
Benavente. Henri Bergson. New York: Alexis Gregory; Del Mar, CA: CRM Publishing, n.d. ,
377-78. Copyright 1971, New York: Helvetica Press, Inc. Print.

Paul Veyne. Comment on crit lhistoire : essai dpistmologie. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1971: 438.
Points. Print. Eng. trans. How One Writes History: Epistemological Essay.
Andr-Jean Weierich. The Relationship of Teilhard de Chardins Law of Complexity/Consciousness to
the Mechanism/Vitalism Debate in Biology. Doctoral diss., Oregon State U, 1971: 252. Print.
Rosanne Weil-Malherbe. Le temps chronologique est une ralit physiologique. French Review, 44.3
(Feb. 1971): 508-12. Print. The author insists, against Bergson, that our subjective notion of time
rests on a physiological basis, and hence does not differ from physiological time. Eng. trans.
Chronological Time Is a Physiological Reality.
1972
James K. Feibleman. The Quiet Rebellion: The Making and Meaning of the Arts. New York: Horizon
Press, 1972: 240. Print. The author alludes often to Bergson, and is obviously influence by
Bergsons views on life, art, the knowability of the world. See An Open Letter to Max
Beerbohm, pp. 97-106, where the author chides Beerbohm for his cursory dismissal of
Bergsons theory of laughter.
Antonio Freire. O pensamiento de deus de Nikos Kazantzakis. Revista portuguesa de filosofia, 26.1
(1972): 92-109. Print. Eng. trans. Nikos Kazantzakis Reflections on the Concept of God.
Hans Furstenberg. Dialektik der XXIten Jahrhunderts; Ein Diskurs. Der neue Weg des Denkens von der
Atomphysik bis zu den Wissenschaften vom Menschen. Dusseldorf: Econ-Verlag, 1972: 127.
Print. Subjects dealt with in this work include Max Planck, Henri Bergson, dialectic, modern
logic, and science and philosophy. Eng. trans. Dialectic of the 20th Century: A Discourse. The
New Way of Thought from Atomic Physics to the Sciences of Man.
Eugen Hettinger. Sous le signe de la Balance. Penses et pomes de Henri Bergson. Geneva, Paris:
Weber, 1972: ill., 23. Les signes du zodiac, 7. Print. Eng. trans. Under the Sign of Balance:
Thoughts and Poems of Henri Bergson.
Klaus Honnef. Konzept Kunst. Basle, Switzerland: Kunstmuseum, Mar. 18 Apr. 23, 1972: 66. Print.
This is a catalog of a museum exhibit. In its introduction K. Honnef defines conceptual art as
more mystical than rationalistic, hence allied to intuition and Bergson. Eng. trans. Conceptual
Art.
Ellie Howe. Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order. London:
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972: xxvii, 306. Print. The author notes (p. 64) the enrollment of
Bergsons sister Mina in 1882 in the Slade School of Fine Art in London and her membership in
the Golden Dawn (1889). References to Mina appear throughout. See p. 179 for an etching by her
and pp. 200-01 for an account of her stage performances in Paris.
Muhammed Aziz Habbabi. Min al-hurlyat il al-tabarrur. Cairo: Dar al-Maarif, 1972: 238. Maktabat
al-dirasat al-falsafiyah. Print. This item deals with personalism, liberty, and Bergson. Eng. trans.
Liberty or Liberation.
Nicolas Karazafiris. Vie religieuse et vie mystique daprs Bergson. Thse (doctorat de 3e cycle), U de
Strasbourg II, 1972: 271. Print. Eng. trans. Religious Life and Mystical Life in Bergson.

Grard Lebrun. La patience du concept. Essai sur le discours hglien. Paris: Gallimard, 1972: 421.
Bibliothque de philosophie. Print. On pp. 237-43. the author compares Bergsons and Hegels
treatment of Zenos paradoxes. His viewpoint is adamantly Hegelian. Eng. trans. The Patience of
the Concept: An Essay on Hegelian Discourse.
Gilbert Maire. La Philosophie dEdouard Le Roy. Les Etudes Philosophiques, 27.2 (1972): 201-20.
Print. Eng. trans. The Philosophy of Edouard Le Roy.
John-Francis Phipps. A Living Philosophy. London: Mysticism Committee of the Churches Fellowship
for Psychical and Spiritual Studies, 1972: 30. Print.
Jean Simard. Le thme de leffort dans la philosophie dHenri Bergson. M.A. thesis, U of Ottawa,
1972. Print. Eng. trans. The Theme of Effort in the Philosophy of Henri Bergson.
Assane Sylla. Dterminisme et finalit chez Bergson. Thse (doctorat de 3e cycle), U of Poitiers, 1972:
122. Print. Eng. trans. Determinism and Finality in Bergson.
Stefaan van der Kelen. Henri Bergsons ontwerp tot de metafysica van de duur. Ph.D. diss. K. U.
Leuven, 1972: 141. Print. Eng. trans. Henri Bergsons Project of a metaphysics of Duration.
Jacques Viard. Proust et les Cahiers de la Quinzaine. Amiti Charles Pguy, 180, 1972: 20-37. Print.
The author notes that Proust subscribed to Pguys Cahiers de la Quinzaine from 1908 through
the last series in 1914. (It is hard to believe that he could have done so and not run across many of
Bergsons ideas there. [Ed.]).
Douglas E. Webb. Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson: A Comparison of Their Moral Philosophies.
M.A. thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institution and State U, 1972: iv, 77. Print.
Truls Winther. Tausheten og ordet. Charles Baudelaire og Richard Wagner Henri Bremond og Paul
Claudel Henri Bergson Benedetto Croce. Oslo: Gylendal Norsk Forlag, 1972: 100. Print.
1973
David Howard Bennett. Laughter in Nietzsche and Bergson. M.A. thesis, U of Oklahoma, 1973: iv, 57.
Print.
Duilio Biancucci. Henri Bergson en los umbrales de la moral. Buenos Aires: Editorial Guadalupe, 1973:
153. Hombres y sus ideas, 008. Print. Eng. trans. Henri Bergson on the Boundaries of Morality.
J. Bider. Bergson et les rves. Annales Mdico-Psychologiques, 131.1 (1973): 125-31. Print. The
author examines Bergsons theory of the nature and function of dreams, confronting it in part
with Freuds dream theory, particularly as urged against Bergson by Georges Politzer (1928). He
notes that Politzers strictures hold equally against Freud and Bergson and that, because of his
emphasis on action, Bergson is less abstract than Freud. A brief discussion follows this essay.
Eng. trans. Bergson and Dreams.
Clarence Brown. Mandelstam. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press, 1973: viii, 320. Print. See pp. 154-57;
197 for reflections on Osip Mandelstams appropriation of Bergsons ideas.

Robert S. Brumbaugh and Nathaniel M. Lawrence. Philosophical Themes in Modern Education. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1973: 294. Print. For an account of the manner in which Bergsons philosophy
influenced Jean Piagets theory of knowledge, see pp. 212-15, 220, 235. The authors treat
Bergson as having inverted Kants theory of knowledge by treating perception as a prelude to
action, not to pure knowledge. This emphasis was retained by Piaget throughout his career.
Mili apek. Leibniz in Matter and Memory in The Philosophy of Leibniz and the Modern World. Ed.
Ivor Leclerc. Nashville: Vanderbilt U Press, 1973: 78-113. Print.
Lucio Colletti. From Bergson to Luckcs. Marxism and Hegel. Trans. L. Garner. London: New Left
Books, 1973: 157-98. Print. The author argues that Luccs became fascinated with Bergson (and
with Georg Simmel) and used Bergsonian language to criticize Taylorist principles of fixing and
organizing time. This book was republished in 1979 (London: Verso).
Michel Cressole. Deleuze. Paris: Psychothque Editions Universitaires, 1973: 121. Print. See esp.
Bergson, pp. 19-22. The author asserts that in Bergson Deleuze found a thinker who, like
himself, insists that problems are not solved until they are first posed correctly. Deleuze was to
utilize Bergsons functionalism, his differentiating method, his temporalism, his two types
of multiplicity. See also p. 111.
Andr-A. Devaux. Amitis et animosits entre Bergson et Pguy. Malentendu survenu lors de la
publication de LEvolution cratrice et rapprochement entre eux au moment de Les Deux Sources
de la morale et de la religion. Revue dHistoire littraire de la France, 73.2-3 (Mar.-June 1973):
281-89.Priodex, vol. 2: B-69. Print. Pguy, like many of Bergsons early admirers, felt that in
Creative Evolution Bergson had given in to the temptations of philosophical system and
abandoned the search for true human existence. In his Note conjointe (1914), however, Pguy
comes to Bergsons defense. This essay contains interesting analyses of Pguys attitude toward
Judaism.
Jean Goulet. Le Caractre positivo-ngatif de la mtaphysique. Science et esprit, 25.3 (Oct.-Dec. 1973):
431-37. Print. Eng. trans. The Positive-Negative Character of Metaphysics.
Nikos Kazantzakis. Report to Greece. Trans. P.A. Bien. London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1973, 512. This
autobiography describes the authors study with Bergson and its influence.
Arthur Koestler. The Roots of Coincidence: An Excursion into Parapsychology. New York: Vintage,
1973: 159. Print. On pp. 131 et seq. the author notes that Bergsons filter theory, according to
which the senses, the brain and ordinary thought exclude wide ranges of reality, has been taken
up by various writers on extra-sensory perception. The author then cites works by James S.
Hayes and Sir Cyril Burt. He then describes neo-Darwinism as a conceptual filter.
Inezil Penna Marinho. Aristoteles, Descartes e Bergson: diferenas no estudo das relaoes corpo e alma.
So Paulo: Departamento de Educaco Fisica e Desportos, Ministerio da Educaco e Cultura,
1973: 50. Reprinted from Caderno cultural, no. 1. Print. Eng. trans. Aristotle, Descartes and
Bergson: Differences in Their Treatment of the Relations Between Body and Soul.
Toni Louise McMillen. Bergsonian Concepts of Time in Willa Cathers The Professors House.
Masters thesis, Texas A&M U-Commerce, 1973: vi, 77. Thesis no. 2699. Print.
Nancy L. Metz. Lived Space: A Critical Introduction to Eugene Minkowskis Lived Time. Ph.D. diss.
Northwestern U, 1973: 120. Print. The author argues that Bergsons sharp dualism between the

self and the world prevents him from dealing with the absolutely fundamental reality of lived
space, a reality dealt with effectively by Eugene Minkowski.
David L. Miller. George Herbert Mead: Self, Language, and the World. Austin: U of Texas Press, 1973:
280. Print. The author notes on p. 252 items sent to him by Irene Tufts Mead, including a threepage manuscript, Bergsons Theory of Perception. The author also notes class notes of a course
given by Mead on Bergson (p. 252). These materials are in the U of Chicago archives.
Nakato Mitsuo. Le rle de la notion de valeur dans le bergsonisme. Ph.D. diss. Paris, 1973. Print. This
work was later published in Japanese in 1977 at the University Presses of Tokyo. Eng. trans. The
Role of the Notion of Value in Bergsonism.
Poranee Natadecha. A Translation into Thai of Henri Bergsons Introduction la Mtaphysique. M.A.
thesis, U of Ohio, 1973: 62. Print.
Ingeborg Breines Nilson. Henri Bergson : philosophie dart, philosophie de vie ? M.A. thesis, U of
Oslo, 1973: 70. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson: Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Life?
Jean-Claude Pariente. Le Langage et lindividuel. Paris: Armand Colin, 1973: 224. Philosophies pour
lge de la science. Print. See especially Chapter I, Hsitations bergsoniennes, pp. 11-29, which
develops insights first expressed in the authors Bergson et Wittgenstein, 1969. The author is
primarily concerned with the problem of using language to describe individuals. This cannot be
achieved by describing individuals in their materiality, but requires instead une caractristique
formelle (a formal concept of the individual). The author uses Bergsons treatment of language
as a springboard for his investigation. Bergson and Wittgenstein both hold that: (1) All
meaningful propositions are images of reality. (2) All efforts to depict states of affairs which are
not objects of images are meaningless. (3) All propositions with universal validity are devoid of
meaning. Bergson hesitates before the notion of individuality, refusing to define it via its
materiality (i.e., its specific attributes), but characterizing it as indefinable hence ineffable.
Bergson could, through his fluid concepts, have established a formal concept of individuality,
but failed to do so. See also pp. 31-36, 224-27. Eng. trans. Language and the Individual.
Arild Pedersen. De fem synsvinkler p friheten: via en ekskursjon opp gjennom kjernen av Henri
Bergsons filosofi. M.A. thesis, U. of Oslo, 1973: xix, 371. Print. Eng. trans. The Five
Perspectives of Freedom: Via an Excursion Through the Core of Henri Bergsons Philosophy.
Boguslaw Schaffer. Bergsoniana: fr Flote. Berlin: Ahn & Simrock, 1973: 18 pp. Print. This is a musical
score. Eng. trans. Bergsoniana: For Flute.
Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz. Twentieth Century Philosophy (1900-1950). Trans. Chester A. Kisiel. Belmont,
CA: Wadsworth Pub., 1973: 260. Print. The author deals with Bergsons philosophy on pp. 30-42
and throughout. He portrays Bergson as developing both pragmatic and vitalistic theses. Speaking
of the revolt of early twentieth-century philosophy against previous philosophical positions, the
author states: The deciding blow, not only in France but in all of Western Europe, was struck by
Bergson. One must stress this even if one does not value Bergsons metaphysics (p. 13).
Jaime Valencia-Garca. Limagination chez Bergson. Louvain: Universit Catholique de Louvain, 1973.
Eng. trans. Imagination in Bergson.

1974
Madeleine Barthlmy-Madaule. La ideologa del azar y de la necesidad. Intro. Juan Senn. Barcelona:
Barral, 1974: 251. Print. This is a sharp criticism of the reductionism of Jacques Monod. Eng.
trans. The Ideology of Chance and Necessity.
Jean-Paul Bonnes. Actualit de Bergson. Monde Moderne, 8 (winter 1974-1975): 203-06. Print. Eng.
trans. The Actuality of Bergson.
Panthea Reid Broughteon. William Faulkner: The Abstract and the Actual. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
U Press, 1974: 222. Print. Of the many philosophers cited in this work, Bergson (who is cited
throughout) is the only one which, the author states, has actually influenced Faulkner (p. xiiin).
Fred Fisher. The Furrowed Brow: An Indictment of the Serious in Music. Music and Man, 1 (1974):
149-59. Print. The author, who defends humor in music, critiques Bergsons claim that all
laughter is critical.
Fred Fisher. Musical Humor: A Future as Well as a Past. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 32.3
(1974): 375-83. Print. The author utilizes Bergsons idea that emotion is laughters foe.
Dante German. Preliminary Reflections on the Open Society: Bergson, Popper, Voegelin in The Open
Society in Theory and Practice. Eds. D. Germino and K. von Beyme. The Hague: Nijohoff, 1974:
1-25. Print.
Muhammad Aziz Habbabi. Libert ou libration ? A partir des liberts bergsoniennes. 2nd ed. Alger:
Socit nationale ddition et de diffusion, 1974: 254. Etudes et documents. Print. Eng. trans.
Liberty or Liberation? Starting from the Bergsonian Liberties.
Deborah Jones. The Reactions of Bergson and Piaget to the Theory of Special Relativity. James Bryant
Conant Prizes, Harvard U, 1974. Print. This item is in the Harvard U archives, and is not
available to outsiders.
John Kohis. Bergsons Method of Intuition and the Phenomenological Reduction. M.A. thesis, Gonzaga
U, 1974: 124. Print.
Tadeusz Kowzan. Spjnoso czasu i pzestrzeni w nowyeh formach muzycznych i plastyoznych. Rosnik
Historii Stuki, 10 (1974): 56-71. Print. An enlarged version of this essay was published in English
in Diogenes (Montral), 73, spring 1971 and in French in Diogne (Paris) 73, Jan.-Mar. 1971.
The author examines the way in which time came to be included in works of art among postImpressionist artists. Eng. trans. The Interdependence of Time and Space in New Musical and
Plastic Forms.
Lawrence D. Le Brun. The Relationship of Bergsons Method to His Doctrine of Images in Matter and
Memory. M.A. thesis. Gonzaga U, 1974: 61. Print.
Duke Madenfort. The Aesthetic as Immediately Sensuous: An Historical Perspective. Studies in Art
Education, 16.1 (1974-1975): 5-17. Print. Bergson, along with several other philosophers
(Kierkegaard, Dewey, S. Langer), is discussed here as an important figure in the history of the
account of the aesthetic as the immediately sensuous.

Pietro V. Mini. Philosophy and Economics: The Origins and Development of Economic Theory.
Gainesville: U Press of Florida, 1974: 305. Print. The author finds that the basic source of modern
(mathematical) economics lies in the philosophy of Ren Descartes. It is Descartes thought
which isolates economists from exploration of the real world and causes their extreme faith in
mathematical models. The author utilizes Bergsons ideas to criticize classical-Cartesian
economics for its a priori rationalism, its ignoring of existential time, and its reliance on
mechanistic time. The author finds a place for intuition in economics. See pp. 60-61, 95-96,
106, 112, 117-18, 119, 120-21, 205, 218-19, 246-47, 264, 267.
Dawn Margerie Helen Moreau. The Human Experience of Time in the Philosophies of Henri Bergson
and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. M.A. thesis, U of Miami, 1974: viii, 83. Print.
Brian Petrie. Boccioni and Bergson. Burlington Magazine, 116 (Mar. 1974): 140-47. Print. This is a
detailed analysis of Bergsons impact on the Italian futurist Umberto Boccioni.
Jean Proulx. De lhomo faber lhomo sapiens. Critre, 11 (Dec. 1974: 188-213. Print. Eng. trans.
From Man the Fabricator to Man the Knower.
Ugo Spirito. Lidealismo italiano e i suoi critici. Roma: Bulzoni, 1974: 233. Print. Eng. trans. Italian
Idealism and Its Critics.
Ichiro Takubo. Tetsugaku to kyiku. Kumamto: Kumamoto Shka Tankidaigatu Tetsugaku Kenkyshitsu,
1973, vi, 418. The author deals with the philosophy of education in Kant, Kierkegaard, and
Bergson.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Lettres intimes Auguste Valensin, Bruno de Solages, Henri de Lubac, 19191955. Ed. and intro. Henri de Lubac. Paris: Aubier Montaigne, 1974: 512. Print. On p. 86 one
learns that A. Valensin corresponded with Bergson in 1923, stating his criticisms of Duration and
Simultaneity. On pp. 165-66 one learns of Bergsons opinion of the biologist Louis Vialleton
(who exaggerates). See also pp. 173, 217, 271 for insights into Bergsons personal life and
acquaintances. On p. 280 the editor reproduces a hitherto unpublished letter from Bergson to A.
Valensin (May 14, 1934) responding positively to his books Balthazar and Maurice Blondel.
Claude Troisfontaines, ed. Journes dtudes, 9-10 novembre 1974: Blondel, Bergson-Maritain-Loisy.
Louvain: Institut Suprieur de Philosophie, 1977: 112. Centre dArchives Maurice Blondel. Print.
Raymond Van Over, ed. The Psychology of Freedom. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Pub., 1974: 416. Print.
This item contains essays on free will and determinism by innumerable authors, including
Bergson.
1975
Jos Camn Aznar. Cinco pensadores ante el espritu: Fichte, Bergson, Unamuno, T. de Chardin,
Heidegger. Madrid: La editorial Catlica, 1975: xi, 333. Biblioteca de autores cristianos, 37.
Print. Eng. trans. Five Thinkers Before the Spirit: Fichte, Bergson, Unamuno, T. de Chardin,
Heidegger.
Jean-Franois Battail. Le mouvement des ides en Sude lge du bergsonisme. Thesis (doctorat dtat),
U de Paris IV, 1975: 816. Print. Eng. trans. The Movement of Ideas in Sweden in the Age of
Bergsonism.

George Beck. Movement and Reality: Bergson and Cubism. The Structuralist, 15-16 (1975-1976): 10916. Print.
Umberto Boccioni. Dynamisme plastique. Peinture et sculpture futuristes. Ed. and trans. Giovanni Lista.
Lausanne: LAge dHomme, 1975: 157. Coll. Avant-gardes. Print. This is a translation of
Boccionis Pittura [e] scultura futuriste [Futurist Painting and Sculpture], 1914. Eng. trans.
Plastic Dynamism: Futurist Painting and Sculpture.
S. Subhash Chandra. Bergsons Philosophy of Nature. Aryan Path, 46.3 (Mar. 1975): 121-26. Print.
Ithell Colquhoun. Sword of Wisdom: MacGregor Mathers and The Golden Dawn. London: Spearman,
1975: 307. Print. This item contains information on Bergsons sister, Moira Bergson MacGregor.
Manuel Criado de Val. La estilstica bergsoniana y la teora del accento, de Vossler. Yelmo, 26 (Dec.
1975-Jan. 1976): 5-7. Print. Eng. trans. Bergsonian Stylistics and Vosslers Theory of Accent.
Roger Dadoun. Cent fleurs pour Wilhelm Reich. Paris: Payot, 1975: 412. Print. Eng. trans. A Hundred
Flowers for Wilhelm Reich.
Ivor Davies. Western European Art Forms Influenced by Nietzsche and Bergson, Particularly Italian
Futurism and French Orphism. Art International, 19.3 (Mar. 1975): 49-55. Print. The authors
abstract states: The late 19c writings of Nietzsche and Bergson are analyzed for their influences
on such later artistic movements as Italian Futurism, French Orphism, and Russian Futurism.
Concepts of simultaneity, movement, and light, presented by the earlier philosophers, are found
restated in the manifestos and writings of Umberto Boccioni, Marinetti and Robert Delaunay.
Bibliography of the History of Art.
Charlotte Douglas. The New Russian Art and Italina Futurism. Art Journal, 34.3 (1975): 229-39. Print.
The author studies the early Russian avant-garde from 1908 to 1915, arguing that though Italian
futurism influences the evolution of Russian modernism, these were superimposed on a prior
interest in depicting psychological states and in the philosophy of Bergson.
Robert C. Grogin. Henri Bergson and the University Community, 1900-1914. Historical Reflections, 2
(1975): 209-22. Print. This is a study of reactions to Bergson, both critical and affirmative, by the
French professoriate, especially that of the Sorbonne. Bergson was to have a difficult time
distancing himself from the aura of anti-intellectualism associated with his philosophy.
George Heard Hamilton. The Philosophical Implications of Impressionist Landscape Painting. Houston
Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, 6.1 (spring 1975): 2-17. Print. The author cites Bergsons concept
of time, but finds the major source of the depiction of temporality by late impressionists in the
positivism of A. Comte.
Hong-Kyu Park. Knwnjk chayui inyme kwanhan yngu. Chlhak yongu, 10 (1975): 41-57.
Print. In Korean. Eng. trans. Study of the Idea of Fundamental Liberty in Bergson.
Charles Penglaou. Quantit et qualit. Des concepts scientifiques aux modulations du crdit. Revue
dEconomie Politique, 85.3 (May 1975): 430-46. Print. Rflexion sur les concepts de quantit et
de qualit utiliss dans les approches scientifiques. Distinction entre la notion mtaphysique de
quantit developpe dans la philosophie cartsienne et la notion mtaphysique de la philosophie
de Bergson. Lapplication de ces concepts dans la science conomique et la difficult de les

distinguer dans lapprciation des incidences des mesures et des politiques montaires
couramment utilises en conomique. [Reflection on the concepts of quantity and quality used in
scientific approaches. Distinction between the metaphysical notion of quantity developed in
Cartesian philosophy and the metaphysical notion of philosophy of Bergson. Application of these
concepts in economic science and the difficulty of distinguishing them in the valuation of
incidences of measurements and of monetary policies currently used in economics.] Priodex,
vol. 4, A87.
A. Appan Ramanujam. Bergsons Philosophy of Laughter. Journal of Annamalai University (H. Part
A), 29 (1975): 39-49. Print.
Joel de Rosnay. Le Macroscope. Vers un vision globale. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1975: 295. Print. In
breaking the vicious circle of perpetual repetition in which Greek thought enclosed itself and in
opposing the order of biological evolution, thermodynamics indirectly made possible a
philosophy of becoming and of process represented by Teilhard and Bergson (pp. 137-38).
During a brief account of the history of the concept of time, he notes Bergsons and Teilhards
notion of an irreversible temporality in evolution, opposed to that of matter (pp. 205-06).
Bergson, however, introduces a second dissymmetry between creative duration and the time of
reproduction (i.e., repetition). The author accepts this distinction as fundamental to an
understanding of biological evolution, arguing against both mechanism (Monod) and finalism
(Teilhard). We must, he argues, escape our inveterate chronocentrism (i.e., our fixation on
linear time). To maintain the organization of an open system is to retard the velocity of increase
of entropy; to create information, organization, machinery is to find the means to canalize
energy. Life and matter are like two processes of the same velocity, each the inverse of the other
(p. 221). (A very Bergsonian approach to evolution and human history.) Eng. trans. The
Macroscope: Toward a Global Vision.
Leo Sandon, Jr. H. Richard Niebuhrs Principles of Historiography. Foundations, 18.1 (1975): 61-74.
Print. H. Richard Niebuhrs historiographic principles were those of H. Troeltsch, but modified
by Bergson. He accepted Bergsons distinction between the closed and the open society, seeing
institutional religion as static and the true church as a movement.
Nicolino Sarales. Domanda sulluomo: La Ricerca del sensu della vita in Simone Weil, Henri Bergson,
Luigi Pirandello, Giacomo Leopardi. Leumann (Tornino): Elle dici, 1975: 93. Collana itinerari,
1. Print. Eng. trans. The Question Concerning Man: Investigations of the Meaning of Life in
Simone Weil, Henri Bergson, Luigi Pirandello, Giacomo Leopardi.
Sue Watson. T.S. Eliots Four Quartets: A Bergsonian Background. M.A. thesis. Mississippi College,
1975: iii, 139. Print.
1976
Nihad Abou-Seif. Rflexion sur le concept bergsonien dexistence. Thesis (doctorat de 3e cycle). U of
Montpellier III, 1976. Print. eng. trans. Reflections on Bergsons Concept of Existence.
Silvano Arieti. Creativity: The Magic Synthesis. New York: Basic Books, 1976: 448. Print. On pp. 91-92
the author notes the popularity of anticonceptual philosophers in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. He cites Bergson as one who advocated abandoning conceptual thinking and
reverting to intuitional forms of knowledge. According to the author this means our
endoceptual and paleologic levels of cognition. But even these do not, the author protests,

exclude the conceptual. See pp. 54-55, 66-67 for definitions of endocept and paleologic. Both are
primitive modes of thought, according to the author.
Lucia Beier. The Time-Machine: A Bergsonian Approach to The Large Glass. Gazette des BeauxArts, 6th ser., 88.1294 (Nov. 1976): 194-200. Print. The author finds numerous similarities
between the ideas of Bergson and those of Marcel Duchampa harsh critic of Bergson.
Mili apek, ed. The Concepts of Space and Time: Their Structure and Their Development. DordrechtHolland and Boston U.S.A., 1976: 570. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 22.
Print. See the authors introduction pp. xvii-lvii both for remarks concerning Bergson and, more
generally, concerning the tendency in the history of Western thought toward the spatialization of
time.
Gregory H. Carruthers. Bergsons Concept of Matter. M.A. thesis, Gonzaga U, 1976: vi, 67. Print.
Jacques Chabannes. Les Enfants de la Troisime Rpublique. De Bergson Mistinguett. Paris: Editions
France-Empire, 1976: 327. Print. A brief biographical sketch of Bergson appears here on pp. 2628. It is clear, accurate. Eng. trans. Children of the Third Republic: From Bergson to Mistinguiett.
Myrna Morgan Chudleigh. Bergsons Critique of the Intellect and Its Implications for the Theory of
Political Obligation. M.A. thesis, political science. 1976.
Grard Genette. Figures I. Paris: Seuil, 1976: 265. Points. Littrature, 74. Print. This item contains an
essay titled Montaigne bergsonien. Eng. trans. Bergsonian Montaigne.
Beverly Pauline Giblon. Time in Impressionism. Bergson and Proust: A Comparative Study of French
Impressionism Concentrating on Monets Series with Bergson and Proust. M.A. thesis, York U
(Canada), 1976: x, 180. Print.
Jess Gonzlez Bedoya. Teora del hombre de Bergson: fondamentacin gnoscolgica de su dimensin
moral. Madrid: Facultad de Filosofa y Letras, Universidad Complutense, 1976: 32. Print. Eng.
trans. Bergsons Theory of Man: The Gnoseological Foundations of His Moral Dimension.
John A. Gunn. Bergson and His Philosophy. Rpt. New York: Gordon Press Publications, 1976. Print.
Cornelius Johannes Gysbertus Kilian. Wysgerige dialektieck by Bergson, Lavelle en Merleau-Ponty.
Ph.D. diss., U of Pretoria, 1976: vii, 290. Print. Eng. trans. Philosophical Dialectic in Bergson,
Lavelle and Merleau-Ponty.
Kebede Messai. Cration et fabrication : essai sur Bergson. Thesis (doctorat de 3e cycle), U of Grenoble
II, 1976: 385. Print. Eng. trans. Creation and Fabrication: Essay on Bergson.
Magelline Nadeau. La critique bergsonienne du nant. M.A. thesis, U Laval, 1976: viii, 124. Print. Eng.
trans. Bergsons Critique of Nothingness.
Georgi Plekhanov. Henri Bergson in Selected Philosophical Works. Vol. 5. Moscow: Progress Pub.,
1976: 294-98. Print. This is an analysis of Creative Evolution. The author holds that Bergson
comes in this work very close to the doctrines of historical materialism (Marxism). All that is
necessary is to apply Bergsons notions to the development of social thought, which Bergson in
part does through his appreciation of the role of technology. Bergson, however, clearly does not
know Marxism, or understand the changing succession of relations of production in human

history. Bergson jettisons his profoundest insights because of his commitment to idealism. Any
attraction French syndicalists might feel toward Bergson, therefore, is absurd.
Bertrand Russell. La filosofia di Bergson. Intro. Bruno Widmar. Rome: Newton Compton editori, 1976:
87. Paperbacks saggi, 104. Print. Eng. trans. The Philosophy of Bergson.
1977
Franklin L. Baumer. Modern European Thought: Continuity and Change in Ideas, 1600-1950. New York:
Macmillan Pub.; London: Collier Macmillan Pub., 1977: 541. Print. The author examines the
trend from being (Descartes) to becoming (Bergson) in modern European thought. He conflates
becoming with conceptual relativism. On pp. 370-78 he notes Bergsons part in the fin de sicle
revolt against positivism; on pp. 378-89 he describes Bergson as an irrationalist and as taking
part in the contemporary revolt against reason: he deals with G. Sorels Bergsonism on pp. 392,
398-99; with Bergsons and Prousts decisive influence on an entire generation of despairing
French writers (including Samuel Beckett); with Bergson (an anti-intellectual) as the chief enemy
of French Thomism on pp. 450-51.
Wendy Leigh Cross. Bergson and Oleska: The Effect of Language on Perception. M.A. thesis, U of
Virginia, 1977: 47. Print. The reference here is to Illrii Karlovich Oleska (1899-1960).
Gilles Deleuze, ed. Memoria y vida; textos escogidos por Gilles Deleuze. Trans. Mauro Armio. Madrid:
Alianza, 1977: 164. El libro de bolsillo. Seccin: Humanidades. Print. This is a collection of
articles and passages from Bergsons writings. Rpt. Barcelona: Altaya, 1995. Eng. trans. Memory
and Life: Texts Chosen by Gilles Deleuze.
Lorenz Dittman, ed. ber das Verhltnis von Zeitstruktur und Farbgestaltung in Werken der Malerei.
Wasmuth: Tbingen, 1977: 109. Festschrift Wolfgang Braunfels. Print. Eng. trans. On the
Relationship of Temporal Structure and Coloring in Painting.
Anne Freemantle. Raissa Maritain in Womans Way to God. New York: St. Martins Press, 1977: 20010. Print. The author describes Bergsons influence not only on philosophers but on students and
high society. She also portrays his effect on Jacques and Raissa Maritains conversion and his
own [presumed] conversion to Catholicism which out of loyalty to Judaism he never publicly
proclaimed.
Bryan Douglas Hopkins. The Modern Ascent of the Soul: Spiritual Progress in the Novels of Joyce,
Beckett and Nabokov. Ph.D. diss., The U of Texas at Austin, 1977: 383. DAI 59.A-1: 165. Print.
The author, in dealing with V. Nabokov, analyzes Nabokovs use of gnosticism and the
philosophy of Bergson in constructing a new set of beliefs about the nature of the world and the
afterlife.
William James. A Pluralistic Universe. Cambridge: Harvard U Press, 1977: 488. Print. This text contains
many notes and other references to Bergson not contained in the original edition (1909). See
especially notes, pp. 191-94.
Deborah Jones. Relativity: The Cultural History of a Scientific Revolution: Popular Reactions to
Relativity Theory in Great Britain and America, 1905-1930. A.B. honors thesis, Harvard U, 1977.
Philip Washburn Prize, Harvard U, 1977.

Abraham Kaplan. In Pursuit of Wisdom: The Scope of Philosophy. Beverly Hills: Glencoe Press, 1977:
xiv, 650. Print. The author provides a general overview of philosophy, discussing many concepts
in relation to Bergson.
Rudolf Kayser. The Saints of Qumrn: Stories and Essays on Jewish Themes. Ed. Harry Zohn.
Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson U Press, 1977: ill, 188. Print. This item contains an essay titled
Intuition and Knowledge: On the Bergson Centennial, October 18, 1959.
Murray Krieger and L. S. Dembo, eds. Structuralism and Its Alternatives. Madison: U of Wisconsin
Press, 1977: 168. Print.
Shiv K. Kumar. Virginia Woolf and Bergsons Dure. Rpt. Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Library editions, 1977:
17. Research Bulletin; Arts. Print. This is a reprint of the 1957 edition.
Phoba Mvika. Bergson et la thologie morale. Thesis. Amiens, 1976: Lille: Atelier reproduction des
thses, U de Lille III. Paris: diffusion H. Champion, 1977: ix, 512. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and
Moral Theology.
Mitsuo Nakata. Berukson tetsgaku, jitsukai Mitsuo cho. Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1977, xxvi,
664. An English translation of the title of this item is: Bergsons Philosophy.
Edmond Orban. Canada-Qubec: pour un processus acclr de crativit. Journal of Canadian
Studies, 12.3 (1977): 39-43. Print. The author urges Canadians, in dealing with their sectional and
ethnic differences, to achieve a true creative evolution: a rethinking of possibilities to achieve
workable solutions. Eng. trans. Canada-Qubec: For an Accelerated Process of Creativity.
Robert Evans Ornstein. Psychology of Consciousness. 2nd. ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
1977: 255. Print. 1st ed. 1972. the author discusses Bergson and duration on pp. 104-06. On
p. 130 he relates Bergsons lan vital to the Japanese discipline of aikido.
Charles Pguy. Cartesio e Bergson. Ed. and trans. Angelo Prontera and M. Petrone. Lecce: Milela, 1977:
287. Print. This is a translation of Pguys Note conjoint (1914). Eng. trans. Descartes and
Bergson.
Angelo Prontera. Pguy: per un Cristianesimo Vigile et Contestatore. Universit degli Studi di Lecce,
Bollettino Storia della Filosofia, 5 (1977): 63-77. Print. For references concerning Bergson and
Pguy see pp. 73, 75-77. Eng. trans. Pguy: On a Christianity Watchful and Protesting.
George D. Romanos. Bergson interprete der Lucrezio. Revista di Cultura Classica e mediovale, 19
(1977): 683-92. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson as an Interpreter of Lucretius.
George D. Romanos. On the Immediacy of Art. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 36.1 (fall
1977): 73-80. Print. The author examines the aesthetic views of Bergson, D. W. Prall, and John
Dewey.
Giorgio Scrimieri. Raccolta di studi e ricerche. Vol. 1. Bari: Ed. Levante, 1977: 267. Universit degli
studi di Bari, Facolt di Magistero. Instituto di Filosofia e Storia della Filosofia. Print. Eng. trans.
Collection of Studies and Research.
Michel Serres. Hermes IV. La distribution. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1977: 291. Print. See Boltzmann et
Bergson. The author argues that both the success and the hesitations of Bergsonism attest to

the reality of an emerging revolution in late nineteenth-early twentieth century science. He treats
the debate over thermodynamics as the wellspring of this revolution and considers Bergsons
metaphysics to be in fact a physics: the physics of W. Ostwald and the energetists, of
thermodynamic irreversibility and negentropy. He states: Or tout cela est la nouvelle
mcanique : Bergson est mcaniste (p. 132). Eng. trans. Hermes IV. The Distribution.
Philippe Soulez. Lcole de Francfort. LHomme et la socit, Nos. 45-46, Juillet-Aot-Septembre et
Octobre-Novembre-Dcembre 1977, 253-56. The author reviews Martin Jay, Limagination
dialectique. Histoire de lcole de Francfort, 1929-1950. Paris: Payot, 1977. He notes that
Bergson was one of the sponsers of the Frankfurt School in its brief stay in Paris, and that Max
Horkheimer, second director of the Institut fr Sozialforschung, opened the institute to the
problematics of Freud and of Lebensphilosophie, including Bergson. Cf. Philippe Soulez
Prsentation dun article indit en franais de Max Horkheimer Lhomme et la socit, Nos.
69-70, 1983, 3-8. An English translation of the title of this item is: The Frankfurt School.
C. Troisfontaines. Blondel, Bergson, Maritain, Loisy. Louvain: Institut Suprieur de Philosophie, 1977:
113. Print.
1978
Jacob B. Agus. Jewish Identity in an Age of Ideologies. New York: F. Ungar, 1978: xi, 463. Print. See If
God Be the Elan Vital, pp. 249-51. On p. 262 the author sees Teilhard as following Bergson.
James C. Austin and Daniel Royot. American Humor in France: Two Centuries of French Criticism of
the Comic Spirit in American Literature. Ames: Iowa State U Press, 1978: 177. Print.
Mary Brisson. La prsence de Bergson dans luvre dAntonio Machado. Thesis (doctorat de 3e cycle),
U of Paris I, 1978: 261. Print. Eng. trans. Bergsons Presence in the Works of Antonio
Machado.
Gregory Freiden. The Whisper of History and the Noise of Time in the Writings of Osip Mandelshtam.
Russian Review, 37.4 (1978): 421-37. Print.
Jean Guitton. Le temps et lternit chez Plotin et Saint Augustin in uvres compltes. Vol. 4.
Philosophie. Paris: Descle de Brouwer, 1978: 21-463. Bibliothque europenne. Print. Eng.
trans. Time and Eternity in Plotinus and St. Augustine.
Lawrence W. Howe. Defense of Bergsons Theory of Time. M.A. thesis. U of Florida, 1978: iii, 78.
Print. The author critiques the ideas of Donald Day Williams and J. J. C. Smart in relation to
Bergson.
International Research Group 1900. La perspective critique franaise. Ottawa: [distributed by Groupe de
Recherches International 1900], 1978-1982. Littratures de langues europennes au tournant du
sicle. Lectures daujourdhui. Srie A. Print. See, in Cahier 5-6, Laffaire Dreyfus revisite,
Bergson. Eng. trans. The Dreyfus Affair Revisited: Bergson.
Emmanuelle Le Landais. Les quatre visages de Dieu chez Bergson. Thesis (doctorat de 3e cycle). U of
Paris I, 1978: 261. Print. Eng. trans. The Four Faces of God in Bergson.

Arshi Pippa. Montale et le dterminisme physique. Letteratura e scienza nella storia della cultura
italiana: Atti del IX congresso dell Associazione internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e
Letterature Italiana, 1976. Palermo: Manfredi, 1978: 839-46. Print. The author traces the
influence of Bergson and E. Boutroux on E. Montales Le occasioni and La bufera e altro. Eng.
trans. Montale and Physical Determinism.
A. Ritter. Zeitgestaltung in der Erzhlkunst. Herausgegeben von Alexander Ritter. Darmstadt:
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1978: 384. Print. Eng. trans. Time Gestalts in Narrative Art
Presented by Alexander Ritter.
Luis Espritu Santo. Bergson : conscience du pass ; Coimbra : conscience de lavenir. M.A. thesis.
Central Connecticut State College, 1978: vi, 112. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson: Awareness of the
Past; Coimbra: Awareness of the Future.
Karen Araevich Svasi. steticheska suchnost intuitivno filosofi A Bergsona. K. A. .
-. , 1978: 118. Print. Eng. trans. The Aesthetic Essence of Bergsons
Intuitive Philosophy.
Bart Verschaffel. Begrip en werkelijkheid in het denken van Henri Bergson: een peilen van de
samenhang van de grondcategorien. Ph.D. diss. K. U. Leuven, 1978: xvii, 155. Print. Eng.
trans. Concept and Reality in the Thought of Henri Bergson: An Evaluation of the Coherence of
the Fundamental Categories.
Nicholas J. Yonker. God, Man, and the Planetary Age: Preference for a Theistic Humanism. Corvallis:
Oregon State U Press, 1978: 156. Print.
1979
Kouassi Akpoue. Bergson et Gabriel Marcel. Profil dune rencontre. Thesis (doctorat de 3e cycle). U de
Poitiers, 1979: 264 pp. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and Gabriel Marcel: Profile of an Encounter.
Henri Atlan. Entre le cristal et la fume. Essai sur lorganisation du vivant. Paris: Editions du Seuil,
1979: 288. Print. In a section titled LEcclsiaste et le temps crateur. Idalisme et matrialisme
(Ecclesiastes and Creative Time. Idealism and Materialism), pp. 174-81, the author points out
that the new concept of living things as self-organizing, though it is more organic, essentially
unconscious, capable of discovering and assimilating novelty, is not an idealism like those of
Bergson, Schelling, and Schopenhauer, who oppose life to matter (or, analogously, instinct
to intelligence). The new biochemical and biophysical ideas, with their concept of
organization through chance ( hasard organisationnel ) may be presumed to be idealistic in
nature, just as, from another viewpoint, they may be taken to be materialistic. The truth is, they
are neither. We must rethink our basic concepts in the light of new concepts. Eng. trans. Between
Crystal and Smoke: Essay on the Organization of the Living.
Henri Bonnet. Le progrs spirituel dans A la recherche du temps perdu de Proust. 2nd ed. enlarged. Paris:
Nizet, 1979: 472. Print. This item contains an essay, Bergson et Proust. Eng. trans. The
Spiritual Progress in Search for Lost Time of Proust.
Andr Brincourt. Les crivains du XXe sicle. Un muse imaginaire de la littrature mondiale. Paris:
Editions Retz, 1979: 735. Print. Eng. trans. Twentieth-Century Writers. An Imaginary Museum of
World Literature.

Ivor Davies. New Reflections on the Large Glass; The Most Logical Sources for Marcel Duchamps
Irrational Work. Art History, 11.1(Mar. 1979): 85-94. Print. The author deals with Bergsons
influence on Duchamp via his Laughter, which informs Duchamps treatment of the irony and
humor inspired by the machine.
Jiri Hermach. A propos de la perception pure selon Bergson. Thesis (doctorat de 3e cycle). U of Paris I,
1979. Print. En Eng. trans. Concerning Bergsons Concept of Pure Perception.
Claude Laferrire. La thmatique du nant chez Bergson. M.A. thesis. U of Montral, 1979. Print. Eng.
trans. The Thematic of Nothingness in Bergson.
Guy G. Laurent. Le feeling chez Henri Bergson. M.A. thesis. U of Montral, 1979. Print. Eng. trans.
Feeling in Henri Bergson.
Theodore I. Malinin. Surgery and Life: The Extraordinary Career of Alexis Carrel. New York: Harcourt,
Brace, Jovanovich, 1979: 242. Print. On p. 41 the author notes Carrels participation in New
Yorks Century Club, whose members included F. R. Coudert, Frederick Woodbridge, Judge
Benjamin Cardozo, Charles Butler, Walter Price. Henri Bergson and Emile Boutroux participated
in this club when in New York.
C. P. R. Marie. Vers une didactique du rve de Bergson Bachelard. Essai de critique essentialiste.
Thesis. U of Hull, 1979. Print. Eng. trans. Toward a Didactic of the Dream from Bergson to
Bachelard.
Virginia Spate. Orphism: The Evolution of Non-figurative Painting in Paris 1910-1914. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1979: 409. Oxford Studies in the History of Art and Architecture. Though the
author purports to deal with the emergence of Orphism, 1910-1914, in fact she deals with the
general emergence of antirepresentationalist art in France during these years. Bergson seems to
have been the chief though not the only philosophical influence on this metamorphosis.
Futurism, Unanimism, Simultanism, Cubism, Orphism: virtually all the isms emerging at this
time in some manner or other felt Bergsons influence. For Bergsons influence on Frank Kupka,
see pp. 26-27, 87, 103, 113, 123-24; on Fernand Lger, pp. 33, 244-45, 249, 270; on R. Delaunay,
pp. 33, 43-44, 185, 189, 200, 225; on M. Duchamp, pp. 33, 330, 338. Bergsons influence on
Kupka was direct.
Daniel J. Thattackera. Bergson, Teilhard, and Whitman. Indian Scholar, 1.2 (July 1979): 23-30. Print.
Claude Tresmontant. La crise moderniste. Paris: Seuil, 1979: 350. Print. Eng. trans. The Modernist Crisis.
Giampaulo Venturi. H. Bergson: un itinerario. Bologna: Giorgio Barghigiani, 1979: 23. Print. This is a
talk given at the Tincani circle of Bologna on the 120th anniversary of Bergsons birth. Eng.
trans. H. Bergson: An Itinerary.
1980
Gaston Bachelard. La Intuicin del instante. Trans. F. Borbea. Epil. I. Lescure. Buenos Aires: Siglo
Veinte, 1980: 173. Print. Eng. trans. The Intuition of the Instant.

Michel Barlow. El pensamiento de Bergson. Trans. Mara Martnez Pealozal. Mxico: Fondo de Cultura
Econmica, 1980: 149. Breviarios del Fondo de Cultura Econmica, 202. Print.
Francis Baumli. Ceremony and Ritual. Contemporary Philosophy, 3 (fall 1980): 11-13. Print. The
authors discussion relies heavily on Bergsons notions of politeness, propriety, and society.
Al Boboc. Filosofia contemporan. Orientri si tendinte in filosofia nemarxist din secolul XX. Bukarest:
Didaktische und Pedagogische Verlag, 19809: 228. Print. Bergson is treated here as a
neoromantic philosopher of life along with Nietzsche, Dilthey, Simmel, Spengler, Spranger,
Klages and Ortega. Eng. trans. Contemporary Philosophy.
Ernst Boesiger. Evolutionary Biology in France at the Time of the Evolutionary Synthesis in The
Evolutionary Synthesis. Eds. E. Mayr and W. B. Provine. Cambridge: Harvard U Press, 1980:
209-21. Print. The author notes the immense influence of Bergson on French biologists in the
period between the two world wars. Boesigers view of this influence is unremittingly critical.
Sergio Cotta. Meaning of Politics in Works of Hegel and Bergson. Cahiers Vilfredo Pareto, 18.52
(1980): 193-206. Print.
S. Delord-Kacirek. Lnergtisme jungien 1912-1928. Thesis. U dof Paris VII, 1980. Print. Maurice
Dayan asserts of the author: Lauteur souligne, entre autres choses, lintrt port par Jung, en
particulier dans les annes 1912-1914, luvre de Bergson. Elle a longuement tudi, par
ailleurs, le texte de Wandlungen dans ses deux versions en ce qui concerne lanalyse de la libido ;
ainsi que linfluence des ides de Wundt sur lnergtisme de Jung [The author underlines,
among other things, the interest taken by Jung, in particular in the years 1912-1914, in the work
of Bergson. It studied at length, in addition,with the text of Wandlungen in its two versions in
which it is concerned with analysis of the libido; as well as the influence of the ideas of Wundt on
the energetism of Jung] in M. Dayan. Les Relations au rel dans la psychose. Paris: Presses
Universitaires de France, 1985: 136n. Eng. trans. Jungian Energetism and Relations with Reality
in Psychosis.
Andr Devaux. La rencontre entre Pguy et Bergson. Atti del Convegno Internazionale Pguy vivant.
Eds. J. Bastaire, A. Prontera, G. A. Rogerone. Lecce: Millela, 1980: 561-66. Print. Eng. trans.
The Encounter between Pguy and Bergson.
Charlotte Cummings Douglas. Swans of Other Worlds: Kazemir Malevich and the Origins of Abstraction
in Russia. Diss. U Michigan, 1980. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1980: xii, 174. Print. For a
discussion of Bergsons influence on suprematism, see Ch. 4, Malevich, Bergson, and the Italian
Futurists: 1914-1915, pp. 49-62. For Bergsons influence on Nikolai Kulbin, see p. 17.
Jeanne Delhomme. Savoir rire ? Synchronie et diachronie [Bergson] in Textes pour Emmanuel Levinas.
Ed. Maurice Blanchot. Paris: J.-H. Place, 1980: 151-165. Print. Eng. trans. Knowing How to
Laugh? Synchronism and Diachromism [Bergson].
Emeric Fiser. Le symbole littraire. Essai sur la signification du symbole chez Wagner, Baudelaire,
Mallarm, Bergson et Marcel Proust. Rpt. 1941. New York: AMS Press, 1980: 223. Print. Eng.
trans. The Literary Symbol: Essay on the Significance of Symbol in Wagner, Baudelaire,
Mallarm, Bergson and Marcel Proust.
Luigi Gentile. Intorno a Bergson. Rome: Libreria editrice della pontifica universit lateranense, 1980:
244. Biblioteca di Aquinas, 5. Print. Eng. trans. About Bergson.

Eliot B. Gosse, Jr. The Transformation Process in Joyces Ulysses. Totonto: U of Totonto Press, 1980:
xix, 228. Print. The authors prologue (pp. xi-xix) examines the influence of Bergsons
Lvolution cratrice on the writing of Joyces Ulysses. He concludes: Bergsons emphasis on
change as the locus of reality, his insistence on inner and outer process as more vital than fixed
forms, and his putting of will into the impulsion it prolongs all suggest that reality is a
perpetual growth, a creation pursued without end (p. 261). Whether optimistically affirmed by
Bruno, or more guardedly advocated by Freud, this insistence became the thoroughly workedthrough premise of Joyces later fiction (p. xix). See also pp. 20-23, 61-62, 80-81, and
elsewhere.
Henri Gouhier. Le bergsonisme dans lhistoire de la philosophie franaise in Etudes sur lhistoire des
ides en France depuis le XVIIe sicle. Paris: Vrin, 1980: 94-95. Print. Eng. trans. Bergsonism in
the History of French Philosophy.
Francis Jeanson. Sartre and the Problem of Morality. Trans. with Intro. Robert V. Stone. Bloomington:
Indiana U Press, 1980: 279 pp. Print. This book was written originally in 1947, with the
exception of a postscript (1965). See especially Bergsons View of Images, pp. 45-47 and
following. The author severely criticizes Bergsons concepts of image and intellectual effort. See
also pp. 149-50.
Jin-sung Kim. Dsintressement et attention la vie dans la philosophie de Bergson. Thesis (doctorat
de 3e cycle). U of Montpellier III, 1980: 350. Print. Eng. trans. Disinterest and Attention to Life
in Bergsons Philosophy.
Leonard P. Liggio. Bergsons Political Doctrines. Literature of Liberty, 3.2 (1980): 75-91. Print.
Susana Rossi. La filosofia religiosa de Bergson: dos interpretaciones. Convivium, 19.6 (1980): 38-53.
Print. Eng. trans. Bergsons Religious Philosophy: Two Interpretations.
Jack K. Roth. The Cult of Violence: Sorel and the Sorelians. Berkeley: U California Press, 1980: 359.
Print. The author makes more than twenty references both to Bergsons influence on George
Sorels syndicalist political philosophy and to the personal relations between these two figures.
References to Bergson in the correspondence of Sorel and Benedetto Croce are noted.
Throughout, Sorel utilized Bergsons pragmatic theory of knowledge and his concept of intuition.
Lane Roth. Bergsonian Comedy and the Human Machines in Star Wars in Dialog file, 1: ERIC. The
Dialog Corp., 1980. Print. While analyzing humor is difficult, Henri Bergsons concept of
comedy (a person acting like a machine) outlined in the classic essay, Le Rire, in 1900, is
probably too narrow a definition. Science fiction film, a genre which has evolved since the
publication of Bergsons essay, has also speculated about man society, often to comment on and
to ameliorate the human condition. The archetypal antinomy of artifact vs. nature, for Bergson the
locus of comedy, is for most science fiction the focus of angst. Nevertheless, the characters C3PO and R2-D2 in George Lucass Star Wars demonstrate Bergsonian comic principles primarily
through reversal a machine acting like a person and sometimes through double reversal a
machine acting like a person acting like a machine.
Isaak Lvovich Savranski. Bergson i Proust in Marksistko-Leninskaja v borbe za progressivnoe
iskusstvo. Ed. M. A. Savranski. Moscow: Nauka, 1980: 210-36. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and
Proust.

Ben-Ami Scharfstein. The Philosophers: Their Lives and the Nature of Their Thought. New York: Oxford
U Press, 1980: 486 pp. Print. On pp. 63-64 the author notes that Wittgenstein and Bergson, both
unusually sensitive to music, commented on the importance of what may be called the
musicality of language. Thus Wittgenstein asserted sometimes a sentence can be understood
only when one reads it in the correct tempo. My sentences should all be read slowly (p. 64).
Bergsons respect for the musicality of language was so great that he insisted that the full
understanding of a philosopher was impossible without sensitivity to the philosophers rhythms
(p. 64). On p. 83 the author lists Bergson among the poetic philosophers. On p. 103 the author
notes the influence of Plotinus on Bergson and A. N. Whitehead. On pp. 103-04 the author notes
the similarities of Bergsons and A. Schopenhauers cosmogonies. On pp. 352-53 the author
again notes the relations between Bergsons philosophy and music. See also p. 259.
L. Schram-Pighi. Prsence culturelle franaise dans le Leonardo: Rivista dIde (1903-1907). Actes du
VIIIe Congrs de lAssociation Internationale de Littrature Compare, I: Trois grandes
mutations littraires: Renaissance, Lumires, dbut du vingtime sicle. Stuttgart: Bieber, 1980:
607-14. Print. Eng. trans. French Cultural Presence in Leonardo: Rivista de ideas (1903-1907).
Henryk Skolimowski. Evolutionary Illuminations. Alternative Futures, 3.4 (1980): 3-34. Print.
N. A. Telnova. Sootnoshenie sotsialnogo i individualnogo v eticheskoi kontsepsii A. Bergsona:
kriticheskii analiz. Thesis, Moscow State U (Mosk. gos. un-t), 1980: 20 pp. Microfiche Moskva:
INION AN SSSR, 1989. Print. Available from Center for Research Libraries, Chicago. Eng.
trans. The Correlation of the Social and the Individual in the Ethical Conception of H. Bergson: A
Critical Analysis.
1981
Kossi-Sylvain Adade. La notion dintelligence dans la philosophie de Bergson. Thesis (doctorat de 3e
cycle). U Aix-Marseille I, 1981: 224. Print. Eng. trans. The Notion of Intelligence in Bergsons
Philosophy.
Mara del Carmen Azula Garca. La experiencia en Bergson. Ph.D diss. Madrid: U Complutense, 1981:
xv, 397. Print. Eng. trans. Experience in Bergson.
Francis Baumli. Ceremony and Ritual in Philosophy of the Humanistic Society. Ed. Alfred E. Koenig.
Lanham, MD: U Press of America, 1981: 182-84. Print.
Arthur Berndtson. Power, Form, and Mind. Lewisburg: Bucknell U Press, 1981: 296. Print. This work
develops an original theory of the metaphysics of power. It contains extensive discussion of
Bergsons notions of God, vitalism, space, and time.
Johan Fredrik Bjelke. Den europeiske filosofi: from Thomas Aquinas til Henri Bergson. Oslo:
Universitetsferl, 1981: 207. Print. Eng. trans. European Philosophy: From Thomas Aquinas to
Henri Bergson.
Jo Ann Weiner Bomze. Thematic and Structural Design of William Faulkners Collected Stories. Ph.D.
diss. U Pennsylvania, 1981: 281. DAI, 42.11A: 4825. Print.

J. Bor. Metafisica en ervaring in Metafysika. De geschiedenes van een begrip. Eds. C. A. van Peursen
and Errit J. Petersma. Meppel: Boom, 1981: 161. Print. Eng. trans. Metaphysics and
Experience.
mile Brhier. Histoire de la philosophie Vol. 3, XIXe-XXe sicles. 2nd ed. Paris: Presses Universitaires de
France, 1981, 1059. (Quadrige) This history of 19th and 20th century philosophy contains essays
titled Herbert Spencer et lvolutionisme and Henri Bergson.
James M. Curtis. McLuhan: The Aesthete as Historian, Journal of Communication, 31.3 (1981): 14452. Print. The author argues that Hegel and Bergson shaped McLuhans concept of history, as
expressed in Understanding Media.
Julio Tern Dutari. Conocimiento y tradicin metafsica: estudios sobre Bergson, Heidegger, Husserl,
Hegel, Kant, Toms de Aquino. Quito, Ecuador: U Catlica, 1981: vi, 332. Print. Eng. trans.
Knowledge and Metaphysical Tradition: Studies on Bergson, Heidegger, Husserl, Hegel, Kant,
Thomas Aquinas.
Patricia Phagen Estes. The Principles of Time and Movement in Marcel Duchamps Painting:
Chronophotographic, Futurist, and Bergsonian Parallels (1911-1912). M.A. thesis. U Cincinnati,
1981: 111. Print.
Thom H. Fang. Chinese Philosophy: Its Spirit and Development. Taipei: The Linking Pub. Co., 1981:
568. Print. On p. 527 an account is given of the authors encounter with Bertrand Russell.
Russells harsh treatment of Bergson led the author to do a masters thesis on Bergson. See the
author, 1923.
Pelayo H. Fernndez. La teora de la novella realista de Ortega y la teora de lo cmico de Bergson.
Cuadernos del Sur, 14 (1981): 173-82. Print. Eng. trans. The Theory of the Realist Novel in
Ortega and the Theory of the Comic in Bergson.
Ludwig Frossman. The Metaphysical Conceptions of Henry Bergson. Albuquerque, NM: American
Institute for Psychological Research, 1981: 117. Print. This is a reprint, which retails for $145.00,
paperback.
Tracy Lee Gladstone. A World of Over-Beliefs: The Status and Function of Myth in Twentieth-Century
Social and Political Thought. Ph.D. diss. Purdue U, 1981: 217. DAI 42.05A: 2279. Print. The
author studies the use of myth as a form of political and social thought in Bergson, Freud, and
Georges Sorel. To use myth as a method of social philosophy is to invite conscious manipulation
of political and social conditions.
Anita Corinne Henry. Golos Lamp: Explorations in A la recherche du temps perdu and Five
Philosophers. Ph.D. diss. U Indiana, 1981: 268. DAI 41.12A: 5097. Print. The author finds no
influence of any kind by Bergson on Proust, who was a follower of Hegel and Schopenhauer.
Jin-sung Kim. Berugusonggwa pihamnijui. Cholhak, 15 (1981): 131-53. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson
and Irrationalism.
Thomas Kush. Wyndham Lewis Pictorial Integer. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1981: 172. Print. See
Bergson and Creative Evolution, pp. 24-29, and Evolution in Lewis Art, pp. 29-35 for a
depiction of Lewiss debt to Bergson.

Alice Goldfarb Marquis. Marcel Duchamp. Eros, cest la vie. Troy: Whitson, 1981: 475. Print. This is a
biography that traces Duchamps sources from Leonardo da Vinci to Henri Bergson. Eng. trans.
Marcel Duchamp: Eros is Life.
Ferdinand Lucien Mueller. La psicologa contempornea. Mexico City: FCE, 1981: 238. Coleccin
popular, 67. Print. This item discusses La psicologa introspectiva de Bergson. Eng. trans.
Contemporary Psychology. Bergsons Introspective psychology.
Cstor Navarte. Problemas de mtodo y teora. Santiago: Departamento de Estudios Humansticos,
Facultad de Ciencias Fsicas y Matemticas, U de Chile, 1981: 205. Ediciones del Departamento
de Estudios Humanticos, Facultad de Ciencias Fsicas y Matemticas, U de Chile, 11. Print. This
item contains an essay on reason and life in Bergsons thought. Eng. trans. Problems of Method
and Theory.
Ebnzer Njoh-Mouelle. Lhumanit de lavenir selon le bergsonisme. Thesis (doctorat de 3e cycle). U
de Paris I (Panthon-Sorbonne), 1981: 603. Lille: A.N.R.T. U de Lille III, 1981. Print. Available
in microfiche. Eng. trans. Bergsons Conception of the Humanity of the Future.
Joseph F. Rychlak. Introduction to Personality and Psychotherapy: A Theory-Construction Approach.
2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981: 869 pp. Print. On pp. 665-69 the author notes the
influence of Bergson and A. Reymond on the thought of Jean Piaget: (Reymonds) idea of an
organization of acts into logic would combine with the Bergsonian conception of evolution as a
dynamic, creative movement and remain with Piaget forever after (p. 667). See also p. 669.
Robert Sasso. Bergson et Georges Bataille. En de ou au-del du systme. Cahiers Bataille, 1 (Oct.Dec. 1981): 32-56. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and Georges Batille: Within or Outside of
System.
Alfred Schtz. Theorie der Lebensformen: fruehe Manuskripte aus der Bergson-Periode. Ed. Ilja Srubar.
Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1981: 341. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch. Wissenschaft, 350. Print.
Eng. trans. Theory of Life Forms: Early Manuscripts from the Bergson Period.
Antnio Srgio. Em torno da iluso revolucionria de Antero. Ensaios, Vol. 5. Lisbon: Livraria S da
Costa, 1981, 121-179. Eng. trans. Concerning the Revolutionary Illusion of Antero.
Manfred Smuda. Stream of Consciousness and Dure: Das Problem ihrer realisation und Wirkum im
modernen englischen Roman. Poetica, 13.3-4 (1981): 309-26. Print. The theories of William
James and Bergson are applied here to Virginia Woolfs treatment of time in Mrs. Dalloway. Eng.
trans. Stream of Consciousness and Duration: The Problem of the Realization and Effects in the
Modern English Novel.
C. A. van Puerson and E. J. Petersma, eds. Metafysica: De Geschiedenis van een Begrip. Amsterdam:
Boom Meppel, 1981: 192. Print. Eng. trans. Metaphysics: Divorced from [an] Understanding.
Ana Escribar Wicks. Teilhard de Chardin, espritu de sintsis: sis ensayos. Santiago: Editorial
Universitaria, 1981: 173. Print. Eng. trans. Teilhard de Chardin, the Spirit of Synthesis: Seven
Essays.

1982
Jean-Franois Battail. Ideengeschichtliche Methodik in der Literaturhistoriographie: Reflexionen zum
Einfluss Bergsons in Schweden in Die nordischen Literaturen als Gegenstand der
Literaturgeschichtsschreibung. Eds. H. Bien and G. Sokoll. Rostock: Hinstorff, 1982: 11-18.
Print. Eng. trans. The Methodology of the History of Ideas in the Historiography of Literature:
Reflections on Bergsons Influence in Sweden.
Sylvain Bournival. Proust ou la vraie vie. PhiZero, 10.2-3 (Dec. 1982): 169-203. Print. Rflexion qui
vise dgager, laide de certains aspects essentiels de la pense bergsonienne, la porte
philosophique de luvre de Proust. Bibliographie. Point de repre, vol. 1: 161. Print. Eng.
trans. Proust or the True Life. Reflection that aims to bring out, to the aid of certain essential
aspects of Bergsonian thought, the philosophical significance of the works of Proust.
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Attilio Carapezza. Il comico e il satirico nellopera di Wyndham Lewis in Wyndham Lewis:
Letteratura/Pittura. Ed. Giovanni Cianci. Palermo: Sellerio editore, 1982: 158-64. Print. The
author urges Lewiss dependence on Bergson for his theory of the Comic (See D. Ayers, 1992,
p. 225n for a denial of this opinion.) Eng. trans. The Comic and the Satirical in the Work of
Wyndham Lewis.
Myung-dwan Choe. Berugusongui simsinkwangyerone kwanhan yngu. Sungjndeahagkyo nonmunjip,
12 (1982): 3-26. Print. Eng. trans. Essay on Bergsons Mind-Body Theory.
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Kenneth Cook. Whats So Damn Funny? Grim Humor in The Mysterious Stranger and Cats Cradle.
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Bergsons theory of humor to compare writings by Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut.
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J.-C. Dumoncel. Popper et Bergson. Revue dEnseignement Philosophique, 32.3 (1982): 37-48. Print.
The author attempts a rapprochement between Bergson and Karl Popper. Both oppose Eleaticism
and support a metaphysics of becoming. In epistemology both propose: (1) a biological theory of
knowledge; (2) an evolutionary concept of life; (3) a concept of evolution as neither mechanistic
nor finalistic. Both defend free will, though with contrasting arguments. Both use the categories
open and closed. Bergsons concept of mysticism is not irrationalist, hence neither is his
concept of openness. Eng. trans. Popper and Bergson.
Otis Fellows and John Pappas. Requiescat in pace: Bergson, Pguy, Rolland. The French-American
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Mustafa Ghalib. Haygil. 3 vols. Beirut: Dar wa-maktabat al-Hilal, 1982: 153, 159, 155 pp. Fi sabil
mawsuah falsafiyah. Print. The author deals with the philosophies of Hegel, Bergson, and Sartre.
Kathia Glabeke. De spannung tussen intelligentie en intutie bij Bergson: een originele manier om het
om het epistemologisch dualisme te overschrijden. Ph.D. diss. K. U. Leuven, Faculteit
Wijsbegeerte en Letteren, Afdeling Wijsbegeerte, 1982: xvii, 180. Print. Eng. trans. The Tension
Between Intelligence and Intuition in Bergson: An Original Way of Transcending the
Epistemological Dualism.
Derek Edmund Hanson. The Influence of Bergsons Philosophy of Time in France and England, 19001916: Images of Community in Literature, Politics, and Philosophy. Ph.D. thesis, U London,
External (Arts), 1982: 502. Print.
Jane Gary Harris. Mandelstamian zlost, Bergson, and a New Acmeist Aesthetic? Ulbandus Review, 2.2
(fall 1982): 112-30. Print. The author examines Bergsons influence on the thought of Osip
Mandelshtam.
David Hugh Isaac. Metaphor in the Philosophy of Henri Bergson. M.A. thesis, U Warwick, 1982: 86.
Print.
Jin-sung Kim. Berugusongi chayuron. Chlhak yongu, 17 (1982): 31-48. Print. Eng. trans.
Bergsons Theory of Liberty.
Jin-sung Kim. Hyondae purangsu cholhagesoui supkwane kwanhan kochal. Inmunkwahak, 11
(1982): 67-81. Print. Eng. trans. A Study of the Concept of Habit in Contemporary French
Philosophy.
Augustine Kizito-Abizi. The Significance of the Word Image in Bergsons Matire et mmoire.
Rome: N. Pcheux, 1982: xiii, 117. Print. Diss., Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana.
George Middleton McFadden. The Modern Comic Ethos: Bergsons Laughter in George Middleton
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Rudolf W. Meyer. Bergson in Deutschland. Unter besonderer Bercksichtigung seiner Zeitauffassung
in Studien zum Zeitproblem ind er Philosophie des 20 Jahrhunderts. Beitrge von Rudolf W.
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1982: 10-64. Phnomenologische Forschungen, Bd. 13. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson in Germany.
From a Particular Understanding of His View of Time.
Yoshiaki Moriwaki. Kobayashi Hideo to Berukuson. Tokyl: ICA Shuppan, Showa 57, 1982: 200. Print.
Eng. trans. Kobayashi Hideo and Bergson.
Abraham Pais. Subtle is the Lord The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein. Oxford, New York:
Oxford U Press, 1982: 552. Print. On pp. 27-28 the author states: It is true that great men like
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Henri Poincar had difficulty recognizing that this (special
relativity) was a new theory of kinematic principles rather than a constructive dynamic theory (8)
and that the theory caused the inevitable confusion in philosophical circles, as witness, for
example, the little book on the subject by Henry Bergson written as late as 1922. Did Lorentz
and Poincar have a direct influence on Bergson, however? (See pp. 169-72.) On p. 510 the
author states: Einstein came to know, like, and respect Bergson. Of Bergsons philosophy he
used to say, Gott verzeih ihm. God forgive him.

Andr Peres. Lessence du comique dans Le Rire de Bergson et Le Mot desprit de Freud. LEcole des
Lettres, 74.2 (1982): 41-50. Print. Eng. trans. The Essence of the Comic in Bergsons Laughter
and Freuds Wit.
Stefano Poggi. Il tormento della distinzione e flusso della conscienze. Bergson, Spencer e i fatti della
psiche. Revista de Filosofia, 22-23 (1982): 122-69. Print. The Anguish of Distension and the
Flow of Consciousness: Bergson, Spencer and the Character of the Soul.
Ilya Prigogine. Dialogue avec Piaget sur lirrversibilit. Archives de Psychologie, 50.192 (1982): 7-16.
Print. The author explores relationships between the genetic psychology of Jean Piaget and his
own theory of dissipative structures, especially with respect to the concept of irreversible time.
By developing a genetic psychology, Piaget joins a new idea of the history of science, in which
the idea of time plays an increasing role. Time is understood now no longer as simply
spatialized, however. The idea of a physical trajectory, essential to a spatialized time, no longer
appears in the theory of dissipative structures. The author notes that both Piaget and himself were
profoundly moved by a reading of Creative Evolution, and by a subsequent effort to get beyond
Bergsons philosophy. He ends by suggestion that it is necessary to get beyond both Bergson and
his philosophical antipode, A. Einstein. Eng. trans. Dialogue with Piaget Concerning
Irreversibility.
G. Reinhardt. Zur Genese und Struktur der Graphik des Deutschen Expresionismus in Brucke. Ed. B.
Holeczek. Hanover: Das Kunstmuseum, 1982: 27-34. Print. The author analyzes Bergsons and
Nietzsches influence on German expressionists, with particular emphasis on the Brucke artists.
Eng. trans. On the Genesis and Structure of German Expressionist Prints.
Elisabeth Roudinesco. La bataille de cent ans. Histoire de la psychanalyse en France. Vol. 1. Paris:
Ramsay, 1982: 498. Print. The author here shows how Freuds ideas were spread in France via
Pierre Janets psychology and Bergsons philosophy. Eng. trans. The Battle of One Hundred
Years. History of Psychoanalysis in France.
Michael Allan Rusnak. A Perpetual Becoming: A Study of Henri Bergsons Concept of the Image in T.
E. Hulmes Theory of Aesthetics and Poetry. M.A. thesis. Kent State U, 1982: xi, 111. Print.
Laura Schram-Pighi. Bergson e il Bergsonismo nella prima rivista de Papini e Prezzolini, il Leonardo,
1903-1907. Bologna: Arnaldo Forni Edit., 1982: 200. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and Bergsonism
in Papinis and Prezzolinis First Review, Leonardo, 1903-1907.
Llana Sigad. Mashmauto shel tehum ha-hinukh ba-filosofyah shel Bergson. Thesis. Yerushalayim
[Jerusalem]: ha-Universitah ha-Lvrit [Hebrew University], 1982: 206. Print. Eng. trans. The
Significance of the Sphere of Education in Bergsons Philosophy.
David. H. Staniforth. Reason and Anti-reason in the Works of Henri Bergson and Maurice Blondel.
Masters thesis. U Sheffield, 1982. Print.
Jean Theau. Bergson in La Perspective critique franaise. Ed. Clive Thomson. Ottawa: Carlton U
Press, 1982. 15-24. Print.
Jos Xavier Zubiri Apalategui. Cinco lecciones de filosofa. 2nd ed. Madrid: Alianza editorial, 1982: iv,
277. El Libro de Bolsillo. Sec. humanidades, 783. Print. Eng. trans. Five Philosophical Lessons.

1983
Betty Conrad Adam. The Re-Emergence of Metaphysical Aesthetics. Dissertation. Rice University,
1983: 153. Dissertation Abstracts International, 44.04 (1983): 1118A. Print. In her first chapter,
the author defines metaphysical aesthetics through considering four early twentieth-century
aestheticians: B. Croce, J. Dewey, Bergson, and C. Collingwood. Their aesthetics is taken to be
dependent on their notion of what exists. Contemporary metapysical aestheticians are: A.C.
Danto and N. Goodman.
Herv Barreau. Couturat et la critique des conceptions du temps de ses contemporains: Lechalas,
Bergson, Evellin in Luvre de Louis Couturat (1868-1914): de Leibniz Russell. Paris:
Presses de lEcole Normale Suprieure, 1983: 41-53. See also pp. 46-48. Print. Couturat argued
against Bergson that time is not psychological in essence but a (mathematical) construction of
reason. The author points out Couturats failure to notice the fact that the psychological present
has breadth, hence cannot be reduced to a breadthless instant. Eng. trans. Couturat and the
Critique of the Time Concepts of His Contemporaries: Lechalas, Bergson, Evellin.
M. Barthlemy-Madaule. Lvolution darwinienne investe par la dure bergsonienne. in De Darwin
au darwinisme: science et idologie. Ed. Yvette Conry. Paris: Vrin, 1983, 209-25. An English
translation of the title of this item is: Darwinian Evolution Immersed in Bergsonian Duration.
Jean-Franois Battail. Bergson pourvoyeur didologie conservatrice ? Examen critique dun mythe in
Actes du VIIIe Congrs des Romanistes Scandinares (Odense, August 17-21, 1981). Odense U
Press, 1983: 53-66. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson, the Purveyor of a Conservative Ideology: The
Critical Examination of a Myth.
Peter L. Berger. The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries. New Republic, 189 (Oct. 10, 1983): 38. Print.
Ronald Bieganowski. Sense of Time in Robert Frosts Poetics: A Particular Influence of Henri
Bergson. Resources for American Literary Study, 13.2 (1983): 184-93. Print. This is a complete
report on Robert Frosts notations in his copy of Creative Evolution.
Peter J. Bowler. The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around
1900. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1983: 291. Print. The author asserts on pp. 56-57, 116-17,
147, 179-80 that Bergson utilized data drawn from orthogenesis to support his vitalistic concept
of evolution. On pp. 179-80 he notes an attack on Bergsons philosophy by F. A. Bather. On
p. 105 he notes a reference to Bergsons nonscientific alternative by Robson and Richards.
Jean-Claude Brief. Beyond Piaget: A Philosophical Psychology. New York and London: Teachers
College, Columbia U, 1983: 232. Print. On p. 21 the author notes that in spite of his avowed
loathing of Bergson, his position, concerning the role of memory, is partly Bergsonian:
Apparently, everything is registered, and then a selection establishes the actual percept. On
pp. 132-35 the author notes that in spite of his relentless criticisms of Bergson, Piaget and
Bergson agree on the relationship between consciousness and action. But for Piaget,
consciousness as a total phenomenon characterizing mental life, is discarded in favor of the
partial awareness of the tail-end of action-oriented behavior or of intention proper (p. 133).
Martin Buber. Bergson et Simone Weil devant Isral. Trans. Marie-Jos Jolivet. Cahiers Simone Weil,
6.1 (Mar. 1983): 46-54. Print. This is a rpt./trans. of a previously published essay. Eng. trans.
Bergson and Simone Weil Confronting Israel.

Sue Ellen Campbell. Equal Opposites: Wyndham Lewis, Henri Bergson, and Their Philosophies of
Time. Twentieth-Century Literature, 29.5 (Fall 1983): 351-69. Print.
Mili apek. Time-Space Rather Than Space-Time. Diogenes, 123 (1983): 30-49. Print. Reprinted in
apek, 1991.
Andrej Capuder. Bergson in upani in Obdobje simbolzma v slovenskem jeziku kujievnosti in
kulture: Tipolka problematika ob jugoslavenskem in irem evropskem kontekstu. Vol. 1.
Lubljana: Filozofska fakulteta, 1983: 255-66. Obdobja, 4. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson in
upani.
Jean-Pierre Changeux. LHomme neuronal. Paris: Fayard, 1983, 419. (Le Temps des sciences) The
authors treatment of mental objects in Chapter 5 is described by him as the exact opposite of
Bergsons. His last chapter, he states, is intended to combat the resurgence of Bergsons ideas.
(p. 335)
Giorgio Concato. Henri Bergson: immagini tra metafisica e psicologia. Florence: Alinea, 1983: 50. Print.
Eng. trans. Henri Bergson: Images Between Metaphysics and Psychology.
Gilles Deleuze. Il bergsonismo. Trans. Milano: Feltrinelli, 1983: 109. Campi del saperi. Print. Eng. trans.
Bergsonism.
Gilles Deleuze. Cinma I. Limage-mouvement. Paris: Les ditions de Minuit, 1983: 298. Print. Eng.
trans. Cinema I. Image-Mouvement.
Hubert Doucet. La biothique et le remembrement du discours thique. Eglise et Thologie, 14 (Jan.
1983): 47-61. Print. Eng. trans. Bioethics and the Regrouping of Ethical Discourse.
Paul Douglass. The Gold Coin: Bergsonian Intuition and Modernist Aesthetics. Thought, 58 (1983):
234-50. Print.
Gabriela Dumitrescu. Rspuns exegetului su, I: Brucr. Manuscriptum, 14.3 (1983): 172-73. Print.
Eng. trans. --- Exegetical Response I: Brucr.
Carl M. Edsman. Iqbal och vsterlandet. Svensk Missionstidskrift, 71.3 (1983): 51-59. Print. Eng. trans.
Iqbal and the West.
Pelayo Hiplito Fernndez. Bergson y Prez de Ayala: Toria de lo cmico. Cuadernos Americanos,
248.3 (1983): 103-09. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and Prez de Ayala: Theory of the Comic.
Richard W. Field. William James and the Epochal Theory of Time. Process Studies, 13.4 (Winter
1983): 260-74. Print.
Mary Ann Gillies. Henri Bergson and British Modernism. Masters thesis. Oxford U, 1983.
Raymond Gowroski. The Role of Sensible Beings in Knowledge of the Real for Jacques Maritain. M.A.
thesis, Gonzoga U, 1983: iv, 110. Print. The author is chiefly concerned with intuition and
ontology in Bergson and Maritain.

Robert G. Havard. Antonio Machados Knowledge of Bergson Before 1911. Neophilologus, 67.2 (Apr.
1983): 204-14. Print.
Max Horkheimer. La mtaphysique bergsonienne du temps. Trans. Philippe Joubert. LHomme et la
Socit, 69-70 (July-Dec. 1983): 9-22. Print. This is a translation of the authors Zur Bergsons
Metaphysik der Zeit [Eng. trans. Bergsons Metaphysics of Time] first published in 1934. For
an analysis of its contents see Philipp Soulez, 1983. Eng. trans. Bergsons Metaphysics of
Time.
Hiroshi Ichikawa. Berukuson. Tokyo: Kodansha, Showa 58 (1983): 337. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson.
Stephen Kern. The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918. Cambridge: Harvard U Press, 1983: 372. Print.
The author describes sweeping changes in technology and culture which created new modes of
understanding time and space. He refers to Bergson and William James as progenitors of the new
views on pp. 24-28. On pp. 40-48 he deals with Bergsons concept of the past, relating it to
Marcel Proust. See also pp. 61-62, 101-03, and 120-23.
Arne Kjell Haugen. Posie et monotonie. Rousseau, Bergson. Actes du VIIIe Congrs des Romanistes
Scandinares. Odense, Aug. 17-21, 1981. Odense U Press, 1983: 135-42. Print. Eng. trans. Poesy
and Monotony: Rousseau, Bergson.
Messay Kebede. Ways Leading to Bergsons Notion of Perpetual Present in Biological Foundations
and Human Nature: The Katzir-Katchalsky Lecture Series. ed. Miriam Balaban. Philadelphia and
Rehovot: Balaban Publishers, 1983: 22-40. Print.
Enrica Lisciani-Petrini. Memoria e poesia: Bergson, Janklvitch, Heidegger. Napoli: Ed. Scientifiche
Italiane, 1983: ill, 253. Poiesis, 5. Print. I saggi raccolti nel volume mirano a rintracciare segrete
affinit tra le diverse prospettive di Bergson. Janklvitch e Heidegger in merito al tema del
tempo ontological e al problema del nesso poesia-ontologia. Lanalisi dei testi bergsoniani
consente allA. di avvicinare la nozione di Mmoire, interpretata come fondamento virtuale ed
inesauribile dell infinita immaaginazione dei mondi, al motivo heideggeriano della Differenza
originaria. Negli studi dedicati al pensiero di Janklvitch emerge, da un lato, unoriginale visione
della natura differenziante e perennemente creatrice del tempo, inteso come alterazione
irreversibilie in cui continuamente si dischiudono eventi improvvisi ed effimeri frammenti di
vita. U.H.D. in Bibliographie de la Philosophie, 33 (1986): 219. print. The author deals with the
views of Heidegger, Bergson and V. Janklvitch concerning the ontological status of time.
Anselmo Manuel Suances Marcos. Los fundamentos de la moral in Bergson. Diss. U Complutense de
Madrid, 83/122 (1983): 412. Print. Eng. trans. The Fundamentals of Morality in Bergson.
Jacques Maritain. De Bergson a Sto. Toms de Aquino. Buenos Aires: Club de Lectores 1983: 251. Print.
Eng. trans. From Bergson to Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Jorge Millas. Goethe en Bergson in Goethe, herencia y resplandor de un genio. Juan Gmez Millas and
others. Santiago, Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 1983: 107-34. Colecci El Saber y la Cultura.
Print. The author compares Bergson and Goethe in this essay, concentrating primarily on Goethe.
He concludes that they have in common an Heraclitean viewpoint. Eng. trans. Goethe on
Bergson.
Mary Christine Morkovsky. Bergson and Dussel on Creating New Societies. World Congress of
Philosophy. Montral, Aug. 21-27, 1983: 31. Abstract. Print.

Anna Maria Nieddu. Biologia, morale, individualit in Bergson. Cagliari: Instituto di filosofia della
Facolt di lettere dellUniversit di Cagliari, Tipografia 31, 1983: 24. Pubblicazioni
dellInstituto di filosofia della Facolt di lettere dellUniversit di Cagliari, 28. Print. Eng. trans.
Biology, Morality, Individuality in Bergson.
Daniel Oster. Passages de Znon. Essai sur lespace et les croyances littraires. Paris: Ed. du Seuil,
1983: 251. Print. In Bergson ou la littrature dnie, pp. 30-52, the author critiques Bergsons
concept of continuity, his presumed attachment to common sense. Not only is Bergsons
psychology nave and vacuous, it leads to totalitarian collectivism. (See P. Soulez, LHomme et la
socit, 73-74 (1983): 197-208 for a response.)
Adriano Pessina. Gnoseologia e psicologia nel primo Bergson. Milano: CUSL, 1983: 111. Print. Eng.
trans. Gnoseology and Psychology in the Early Bergson.
Jaime Plager. La conciencia como temporalidad in Filosofia, subjectividad y existencia. Buenos Aires:
Plus Ultra, 1983: ill, 263. Print. Eng. trans. Conscious as Temporality.
F. Porzio. Matisse e i filosofi. DArs (Italy), 24.101 (Apr. 1983): 34-43. Print. The author deals with
Matisse and the Fauves and the Futurists (chiefly Boccioni) and examines the relations between
Matisses art and Bergsons philosophy.
Clmence Ramnoux. Etudes prsocratiques II, suivies de tudes mythologiques ou De la lgende la
sagesse. Paris: Klincksieck, 1983: 238. Print. This work has three parts. In the first the author
interprets the philosophy of Anaxagoras. In the second he protests our attempts to translate the
intuitions of the ancients into our own conceptual language. In the third he recounts what he owes
to Bergson, Lvi-Strauss, and Dumzil. Eng. trans. Presocratic Studies II, Followed by
Mythological Studies or by the Legend of Wisdom.
Joanna E. Rapf. Moral and Amoral Visions: Chaplin, Keaton, and Comic Theory. Western Humanities
Review, 37.4 (Winter 1983): 335-45. Print. This essay concerns Bergsons Laughter, Pirandellos
Lumorismo, and the nature of comedy in film. The author states: Visually, the whole of Charlie
Chaplins Modern Times is about what happens when a mechanical world imposes itself on a
human one (p. 336).
Maria Rosaria Restuccia. Deleuze e Bergson. Cannocciale, 1-2 (1983): 167-71. Print.
Franco Riva. Il Riso di Bergson sul corpo comico: contributo per unantropologia fenomenologica.
Comunicazioni sociali, 5.2-3 (1983): 3-47. Print. Eng. trans. Bergsons Laughter and the Comic
Body: Contribution to a Phenomenological Anthropology.
Franco Riva. Il Riso di Bergson sul corpo comico: contributo per unantropologia fenomenologica.
Milano: Vita e pensiero, 1983: 45. Eng. trans. Bergsons Laughter and the Comic Body:
Contribution to a Phenomenological Anthropology.
Corrado Rosso. Papini e Bergson. Milan: Vita e pensiero, 1983: 20. Print. This is taken from a volume of
the journal Vita e pensiero, pp. 224-43. Eng. trans. Papini and Bergson.
Shlomo Sand. Quelques remarques sur Georges Sorel critique de LEvolution cratrice. Quatre lettres
indites de Bergson Georges Sorel. Cahiers Georges Sorel, 1 (1983): 109-23. Print. Eng. trans.

Some Remarks on George Sorels Critique of Creative Evolution. Four Unpublished Letters by
Bergson to Georges Sorel.
Franklin Leopoldo e Silva. Bergson e Kant. Caderos de Histria e Filosofia de Cincia, 5 (1983): 1928. Print.
Michel Serres. Hermes: Literature, Science, Philosophy. Eds. J. Harari and D. Bell. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins U Press, 1983: xl, 168. Print. On pp. 72-73, stressing the impact of thermodynamics on
twentieth-century thought, states: suddenly this discourse begins speaking in terms of open
and closed, of isolation and closures. Today, in many respects, it has not progressed an inch in
relation to the global problematic of Bergson. See also p. 75 where the author describes an
organism as a sheaf of times.
Philippe Soulez. La mre est-elle hors-jeu de lessence politique ? in Le retrait du politique. Eds.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy. Paris: Galite, 1983: 159-82. Print. Eng. trans.
Is the Mother Outside the Essence of Politics?
Philippe Soulez. Prsentation dun article indit en franais de Max Horkheimer sur Henri Bergson.
LHomme et la Socit, 69-70 (July-Dec. 1983): 3-8. Print. The author introduces Philippe
Jouberts translation of Max Horkheimers Zur Henri Bergsons Metaphysik der Zeit (1934).
Horkheimer found much to admire in Bergsons distinction between lived time and abstract,
mathematical time; but he criticized Bergsons intuition as a-temporal and purely mythical.
Soulez argues that Horkheimer, coming from a dialectical-Hegelian standpoint, failed to
understand both Bergsons concept of possibility and his concept of the role which negation plays
in the development of a philosophy. This essay concludes with a letter from Bergson to Celestin
Bougl, Jan. 24, 1935. (Note: Bergson, Soulez states, was influential in bringing a branch of the
Institut fr Sozialforschung to Paris, prior to its installation in New York as the New School for
Social Research.) Eng. trans. Presentation of an Unedited Article in French by Max Horkheimer
on Henri Bergson.
Fulvia de Thierry. Lestetica di Proust from Bergson e Platone. Saggi e richerche di letteratura
francese, 22 (1983): 237-64. Print. Eng. trans. The Aesthetics of Proust Between Bergson and
Plato.
R. Thom. Paraboles et catastrophes. Paris: Flammarion, 1983, 193. (Champs) An English translation of
the title of this item is: Parabolas and Catastrophies.
E.J. Vidiella. Filosofia, subjetividad y existencia. Buenos Aires: Plus Ultra, 1983, ill, 263. This item
contains an essay by Rosa Coll, Henri Bergson: la conciencia como temporalidad. Eng. trans.
Consciousness as Temporality.
Helmut R. Wagner. Alfred Schutz: An Intellectual Biography. Chicago and London: U of Chicago Press,
1983: 357. The Heritage of Sociology. Print. For Bergsons influence on Schutz, see Third
Phase: The Bergsonian Project, pp. 20-33. Schutz hoped to use Bergsons philosophy to support
a revised and expanded Weberian sociology. The Bergson Paradox (that of trying to sustain a
conceptual philosophy on the basis of a presumably non-conceptual and inexpressible intuition)
eventually defeated this project: though not without providing many insights to be used later by
Schutz. For Schutz melding of Bergson and Husserl, see pp. 39-41, 96, 142, 146, 232, 283-84.
For comparisons of Bergson, Husserl, and Leibniz, see pp. 270-71. See also Schutz and the
Bergson Paradox, pp. 275-76, and Bergson in Schutzs Post-Bergsonian Phases, pp. 276-80,

Dure as Ontological Principle, pp. 280-82, and Bergson in Conjunction, pp. 282-84. Though
critical of Bergsons standpoint, Schutz never ceased to refer to, and to utilize, Bergsons ideas.
Romuald Waszkinel. Les Sources de la thorie de la dure relle de Bergson en face de la psychologie
et du spiritualisme franais (biranisme) in Archiwum historii filozofii i myli spotecznej, 29
(1983): 353 pp. Print. Eng. trans. The Sources of the Theory of Real Duration in Bergson in
Relation to French Psychology and Spiritualism (Biranism).
1984
Valentin Fernandivich Asmus. Istoriko-filosofskie etiudy. Ed. A.B. Asmus. Moscow: Misl, 1984: 317.
Print. This item contains an essay titled Bergson i ego krilika intellekta (Bergson and his
Criticism of Intellect), pp. 217-61. Eng. trans. Bergson and His Critique of the Intellect.
Marie-Louise La Baud-Placet. The Meaning of Political Openness in Bergsons Philosophy. M.A.
thesis. U Calgary, 1984: 131. Print.
Francis Baumli. Durational Values in Musical Notation: On Philosophy in Music. Contemporary
Philosophy, 10 (Apr. 15, 1984): 7-8. Print. The author relies heavily on Bergsons views on
duration, life, and music.
Jean Beaufret. Notes sur la philosophie en France au XIXe sicle, de Maine de Biran Bergson. Paris:
Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 1984: 133. Problmes et controverses. Print. See Bergson (18591941), pp. 75-103. The author sees all of Bergsons important works as leading to and contained
in his Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). The author concludes that Bergsons
philosophy is a reactionary mystification, and an anti-technological one at that. Eng. trans. Notes
on Philosophy in France in the 20th Century, from Maine de Biran to Bergson.
Gyrgy Bodnr. Die geistige Orientierung der ungarischen literarischen Erneurung am Anfang des
Jahrhunderts. Neohelicon, 11.1 (1984): 47-61. Print. The author deals with the treatment of
subjectivity by F. Nietzsche, Bergson, and S. Freud and its effect on the literary revolution
1908-1917. Eng. trans. The Intellectual Orientation of the Hungarian Literary Renaissance at the
Beginning of the Century.
Stanislaw Borzym. Bergson a przemiany wiatopogladowe w Polsce. Worclaw: Zaklad Narodowy im
Ossoliskich; Wydawnictwo PAN, 1984: 337. Print. This item contains a summary in French.
Eng. trans. Bergson and the Transformation of Philosophical Ideas in Poland.
Robert S. Brumbaugh. Unreality and Time. Albany: State U of New York Press, 1984: 164. Print. On.
p. 52 the author describes the characters in Nikos Kazantzakis Zorba as incarnations of the
various types analyzed in Bergsons writings. On p. 117 he notes the similarity between time in
T. Manns The Magic Mountain and Bergsons dure.
Martin Bulmer. The Chicago School of Sociology. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1984: 285. Print. The
author notes that a member of the Chicago School, Florian Znaniecki, was under Bergsons
influence form his study in Paris.
Andrej Capuder. Bergson in upani. upani po Samogovorih. Primerjaina knievnost, 7.1
(1984): 13-22. Print. The author sees Bergson as a source of Oton upanis writings.

Alexandre Correia. Ensaios politicos e filosficos. So Paulo: Convivio, 1984: 392. Print. This work
concludes with an essay on Bergson and Jacques Maritain. The book is divided into three parts,
the first one refers to political philosophy, the second to the philosophy of law and the last one to
philosophy in general, mainly to the ideas of the contemporary philosophers Bergson and
Maritain. L.C.M. in Bibliographie de la Philosophie, 33 (1986): 231. Eng. trans. Political and
Philosophical Essays.
Edward S. Casey. Habitual Body and Memory in Merleau-Ponty. Man and World, 17.3-4 (1984): 27997. Print. The author argues that Bergsons revolutionary distinction between two sorts of
memory provided Maurice Merleau-Ponty with an entrance to the problem of the lived body.
Despite Bergsons belief that habit memory is situated in the body he does not tell us just how
it is so situated: a task that will be left to Merleau-Ponty (p. 42).
Leonard A. Cheever. Instantaneous Reversals and the Quacking of Ducks: Automatism in Orwell and
Solzhenitsyn. Texas Review, 5.3-4 (Fall-Winter, 1984): 73-81. Print. Bergsons conception of
automatism is used here to explore similarities between G. Orwells 1984 and A. Solzhenitsyns
Gulag Archipelago.
John J. Condor. Naturalism in American Fiction: The Classic Phase. Lexington: U Press of Kentucky,
1984: viii, 223. Print. See American Literary Naturalism From Hobbes to Bergson, pp. 1-21;
Faulkner and Naturalisms Selves: The Sound and the Fury, pp. 160-95.
G.-P. Dastugue. Bergson Clermont (1883-1888). Bulletin historique et scientifique de lAuvergne,
Apr.-June 1984: 63-79. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson at Clermont (1883-1888).
Gilles Deleuze. La concezione della differencia in Bergson. Aut Aut, 24 (1984): 42-65. Print. This essay
is translated by Federica Sossi. Eng. trans. The Concept of Difference in Bergson.
Gilles Deleuze. Image-Movement and Its Three Varieties: Second Commentary on Bergson. Trans.
Charles J. Stivale. SubStance, 13.3 (1984): 44-45; 4 (1984): 81-95. Print.
Andr-A. Devaux. Henri Bergson, 1859-1941. Dictionnaire des Philosophes. Vol. 1, A-J. Ed. Denis
Huisman. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1984: 278-86. Print. The author provides an
excellent overview of Bergsons life and thought.
John Dewey. Types of Thinking, Including A Survey of Greek Philosophy. Intro. Samuel Meyer. New
York: Philosophical Library, 1984: 251. Print. This item, which consists of the authors lectures
in China, 1919-1920, contains a chapter each on William James, Bergson, and B. Russell. It was
originally published as Lectures in China, 1919-1920 (U Press of Hawaii, 1973).
J.-J. Ducret. Jean Piaget, savant et philosophe. Les annes de formation. Geneva: Droz, 1984: xix, 997. 2
vols. Travaux de droit, dconomie, de sciences politiques, de sociologie et danthropologie, no.
145. Print. Eng. trans. Jean Piaget, Scientist and Philosopher. The Formative Years.
Daniel G. Ford. Faulkners Sense of Was. Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association, 10.1
(Spring, 1984): 45-56. Print. The author compares William Faulkners treatment of Time with
that of Bergson and of Marcel Proust.
Lewis S. Ford. The Emergence of Whiteheads Metaphysics, 1925-1929. Albany: State U of New York
Press, 1984: 351. SUNY Series in Philosophy. Print. The author notes several points at which
A.N. Whitehead reflected on Bergsons philosophy: the nature of memory, p. 47; Zenos

paradoxes, p. 53; lan vital, pp. 27-28. See Appendix 1, pp. 262-302, for Whiteheads remarks on
Bergson (class lectures, Harvard, 1924-1925).
Jan Wurtz Frandsen. Richard Mortenson: ungdoms Arene 1930-1940; mellem surrealism og
abstraktion. Copenhagen: Statensmuseum for Kunst Department of Prints and Drawings, 1984.
Print. Many writers and artists influenced Mortensen and other Danish artists. Bergson was one of
these. Eng. trans. Richard Mortensen: The Early Years 1930-1940; Between Surrealism and
Abstraction.
Ronald J. Gervais. Fitzgeralds Boats Against the Current and Bergsons Doctrine of the Vital
Impetus. American Notes and Queries, 22.5,6 (May-June, 1984): 140-41. Print.
Mick Gidley. The Later Faulkner, Bergson, and God. Mississippi Quarterly, 37.3 (Summer, 1984):
377-83. Print.
Manuel Gonzalo Casas. El ser de Amrica. Tucuman (Argentina): Editorial del Sur, 1984: 103. Print.
This item contains an essay titled Bergson y el sentido de su influencia in Amrica (Bergson
and the Significance of His Influence in America). Eng. trans. The Being of America.
C. Revilla Guzmn. Intuicin y Metafsica: Anotaciones a la Crtica de Bergson a Kant. Anales del
Seminario de Metafsica (Madrid), 19 (1984): 195-213. Print. Eng. trans. Intuition and
Metaphysics: Notes on Bergsons Critique of Kant.
Carl R. Hausman. A Discourse on Novelty and Creation. Albany: State U of New York Press, 1984: 159.
SUNY Series in Philosophy. Print. On pp. 81-84 the author deals with Bergsons treatment of
intuition and language, and of the limits of discursive analysis. On pp. 141-42n he stresses
differences between his own model of creativity and Bergsons: Bergsonian intuition alone can
not discern these identities as forms as they are presented in tension, nor can intuition alone
discriminate the discontinuities of radical change, since these erupt within definite boundaries.
Christophe Hennequin. Le mme et lautre chez Bergson et Jorge-Lus Borges. Thesis (doctorat de 3e
cycle). U de Toulouse-II, 1984. Print. Eng. trans. The Same and the Other in Bergson and Jorge
Lus Borges.
Max Horkheimer. La Mtaphysique bergsonienne du temps. Lhomme et la socit, No. 69-70,
juillet/dcembre 1984, 9-29. This is a translation, by Philippe Joubert, of Max Horkheimer, Zur
Henri Bergsons Metaphysik der Zeit (1935). Horkheimer examines an essay in Bergsons
recently published The Creative Mind (La pense et le mouvant, 1934), The Possible and the
Real. He concurs with Bergsons distinction between lived duration and mere abstract
mathematical time, but argues that Bergsons thought belongs to a pre-Hegelian era and therefore
neglects negative realities: human suffering, death, emptiness. His notions of intuition and
lan vital are therefore as abstract and as empty as the intellectualist concepts he attacks. (Cf. P.
Soulez, Lhomme et la socit, Nos. 69-70, 1983, 3-8)
Jean Hyppolite. Aspetti diversi della memoria di Bergson. Aut Aut, 204 (1984): 27-41. Print. Eng. trans.
Diverse Aspects of Memory in Bergson.
Kazimiera Ingdahl. The Artist and the Creative Act. Stockholm: Mirab/Gotab, 1984: 168. Print. The
author stresses Bergsons importance in the framing of European modernism, especially in the
conceptualizing of film. See pp. 11, 13, 22-23, 33, 134.

Richard Kearney. Dialogues With Contemporary Continental Thinkers: The Phenomenological Heritage:
Paul Ricur, Emmanual Lvinas, Herbert Marcuse, Stanislas Breton, Jacques Derrida.
Manchester, England: Manchester U Press, 1984: 133. Print. On pp. 49-50, Emmanual Lvinas
describes Bergsons influence on his thought, hailing Bergsons theory of duration as one of the
most significant contributions to contemporary philosophy. Heideggers reflections on technology
as the destiny of Western philosophy of Reason were already present in Creative Evolution.
Bergsons importance to contemporary Continental thought has been obfuscated.
Kim, Jin-sung. Berugusone issd tachin sahoewa ylin sahoe. Chisngkwa dodgchg silchni
munjerl chungsimro. Sahoewa insik. Seoul: Minumsa, 1984: 211-42. Print. Eng. trans. The
Open and the Closed Society in Bergson. From the Vantage-Point of the Intelligence and of
Moral Action.
Ariette Klaric. Arthur G. Doves Abstract Style of 1912: Dimensions of the Decorative and Bergsonian
Realities. Diss. U of Wisconsin at Madison, 1984: 539. Print. The author argues that in
consulting the decorative tradition and the vitalist philosophy of Henri Bergson, Dove (an
American painter, 1880-1946) allied himself with two major generative forces of early twentiethcentury art.
Jean Lacouture. De Gaulle, I. Le Rebelle, 1890-1944. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1983: 869. Print. See
pp. 52-55. En Bergson, de Gaulle a trouv ce professeur de libert que cherche tout adolescent.
Il nest que dinventer : lhistoire qui vient, pense Charles de Gaulle, nous le montrera (p. 55).
Bergson and Pguy were de Gaulles philosophical guides.
Jorge A. Lastra Rodrguez. Llan vital chez Bergson. Thesis (doctorat de 3e cycle). U de Paris-IV,
1984: 204. Print. Eng. trans. The lan vital in Bergson.
Salvatori Limongi. Rileggere Bergson. Note in margini a una recente dizione italiana Saggio e di
materia e memoria. Annali di Discipline Filosofiche dellUniversit di Bologna, 6 (19841985): 307-21. Print. Eng. trans. Rereading Bergson: Notes in the Margins of New Italian
Editions of Time and Free Will and Matter and Memory.
E. Magnin. Entretien avec Bergson in Critique et mystique. Ed. E. Poulat. Paris: Le Centurion, 1984:
315-21. Print. This is a republication of an interview with Bergson first published in 1933.
Roberto C. Manteiga. Time, Space, and Narration in Juan Benets Short Stories in Critical Approaches
to the Writings of Juan Benet. Eds. R.C. Manteiga, D.K. Herzberger, M.A. Compitello. Pref. Juan
Benet. Hanover, NH: U Press of New England for U of Rhode Island, 1984: 120-36. Print. The
author examines Benets treatment of time in comparison with those of Alain Robbe-Grillet and
Bergson.
Ben Lazare Mijuskovic. Contingent Immaterialism: Meaning, Freedom, Time, and Mind. Amsterdam:
B.R. Grner Pub Co., 1984: 214. Print. In Chapter 3 the author argues that Hegels paradigm of
the freedom of consciousness influenced Schopenhauer, Bergson, and Sartre. In Chapter 4 (The
Simplicity Argument and Time in Schopenhauer and Bergson) he argues that Bergsons intuition
of duration was anticipated by Schelling and Schopenhauer. See also Chapter 7 TimeConsciousness. In the second section of this study the author argues against materialist concepts
of mind.
Marc Muldoon. A Study of Time as Duration in the Works of Henri Bergson. Diss. K.U. Leuven,
Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, 1984: x, 165. Print.

Ned Noddings and Paul J. Shore. Awakening the Inner Eye: Intuition in Education. New York and
London: Teachers College, Columbia U, 1984: 236. Print. On p. 2 the authors describe
Bergsonian intuition as a disinterested consciousness that identifies itself with the object. On
p. 8 they note their disagreement with Bergsons notion of intuition on several major points. On
pp. 21-22 they examine Bergsons concept of intuition, concluding: His emphasis on the power
of intuition is nevertheless of some value to educators. This is primarily because of Bergsons
recognition of what might be called acquired intuitions (e.g., tricks or skills, connoisseurship,
knowing the weather of a certain place, etc.). these acquired intuitions develop after a long
acquaintance with their superficial manifestations and are exactly the sort of faculties needed to
gain a sense of historical period or literary milieu. They also may aid in the development of
mathematical and computer skills in young students, and are of obvious value in physical
education and manual arts (p. 22).
Dag sterberg. Kropp og omverden. Samtiden, 93.6 (1984): 10-15. Print. The author compares
existentialism to the philosophies of M. Merleau-Ponty and M. Foucault. Eng. trans. The Body
and Its Environs.
Jean Piaget. La Vanit de la nomenclature in Fernando Vidal. La Vanit de la nomenclature. Un
manuscrit indit de Jean Piaget. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 6.1 (1984): 75-106.
Print. For annotation see Fernando Vidal, 1984. Eng. trans. Vanity of Nomenclature: An
Unedited Manuscript of Jean Piaget.
Randolph D. Pope. Benet, Faulkner, and Bergsons Memory in Critical Approaches to the Writings of
Juan Benet. Eds. R.C. Manteiga, D.K. Herzberger, M.A. Compitello. Pref. Juan Benet. Hanover,
NH: U Press of New England for U of Rhode Island, 1984: 111-19. Print.
Emile Poulat. Critique et mystique (autour de Loisy, ou la conscience catholique et le monde moderne).
Paris: Le Centurion, 1984: 336. Print. The second part of this book concerns Bergson. See
Chapter 8, De Kant Bergson, pp. 254-306, for relations between Bergson and the church
historian A. Loisy. In the section of this bibliography titled By Bergson there is a significant
amount of correspondence between Bergson and Loisy. Eng. trans. Criticism and Mystique
(Concerning Loisy, or the Catholic Conscience and the Modern World).
Gillian Rose. The New Bergsonism in Dialectic of Nihilism. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984: 87-108.
Print. See Michael Hardt. Gilles Deleuze, 1993: 22f. This item is Roses critical response to G.
Deleuzes La conception de la diffrence chez Bergson and his Bergsonism. The author says of
Deleuze: . . . this celebration of ontological injustice is quite unequivocal. On pp. 87-108 the
author examines Deleuzes debt to Bergson.
Pier Aldo Rovatti. La nuance. Note sulla metafisica di Bergson. Aut Aut, 204 (1984): 81-94. Print.
Eng. trans. Nuance: Notes on Bergsons Metaphysics.
Anne Santuc. Le rire, cest la revanche de la vie. Psychologies, 11 (May 1984): 22-25+. Print. Le rire
et les mcanismes du comique selon le sociologue franais Jean Cazeneuve en regard des thories
de Freud et de Bergson. Point de repre, vol. 1, 161. Eng. trans. Laughter Is the Revenge of
Life.
Stephen Frederick Schneck. Personalism as Political Theory: A Study of the Works of Max Scheler.
Diss. U of Notre Dame, 1984: 253. Dissertation Abstracts International, 45.05A (1984): 1514.

Print. The author finds the origins of Schelers philosophy to lie in phenomenology, the socalled revival of metaphysics, and Lebensphilosophie (Bergson, Dilthey, and R. Eucken).
Berthold Schwark. Bergson. Vom Essai sur les donnes immdiates de la conscience zu Evolution
cratrice, Ein Beitrag zur marxistisch-leninischen Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung des 19. und
20. Jahrhunderts. Thesis. U of Halle, 1984: 212. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson. From Time and
Free Will to Creative Evolution, a Contribution to Marxist-Leninist Philosophical-Historical
Writing of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Michel Serres. Bergson e la scienza. Aut Aut, 204 (1984): 66-80. Print. Trans. Marcello Lorral. Eng.
trans. Bergson and Science.
Sfumatori. Materiali per releggere Henri Bergson. Firenze: La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1984: 126. Print.
This is a republication of Aut Aut, 204 (1984): 126. Print. Eng. trans. Signs: Materials for Rereading Henri Bergson.
Young-jin Song. Bergsonge iss chisngkwa sowei imunje. Kunsandae-ranmunjip, 9 (1984): 22540. Print. Published in the journal of Dunsan National U. Eng. trans. The Problem of Intelligence
and Alienation in Bergson.
Steliani Stoica. Concepta etic a lui Bergson. Analele Universitjii Bucureti. Filosofie, 33 (1984): 4759. Print.
Franklin Leopoldo E. Silva. Bergson E A Historia Da Filosofia. Manuscrito, 7 (Apr.-Oct. 1984): 17-30.
Print. Eng. trans. Bergson in the History of Philosophy.
Georg Simmel. Henri Bergson. Aut Aut, 204 (1984): 14-26. Print. Trans. Mauro Protti.
Joseph Wayne Smith. Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Eidos, 3 (Dec. 1984): 135-62.
Print. Why is there anything at all? In this paper we survey the major responses made to this
question, concluding that all such responses are inadequate and that this problem is therefore
cognitively underdetermined by available logical evidence. Philosophers Index, 19.4 (Winter,
1985): 118. Print.
Federica Sossi. Da Bergson a Proust: Note su soggetto e metafor. Aut Aut, 204 (1984): 95-110. Print.
Eng. trans. From Bergson to Proust: Notes on Subject and Metaphor.
Philippe Soulez. Bergson ou la littrature dnie ? Lhomme et la socit, 73-74 (July-Dec. 1984):
197-208. Print. The author responds here to Daniel Osters positivistic criticisms of Bergson in
Passages der Znon (Paris, 1983). Bergson is neither an advocate of common sense nor of a
naive theory of intuition. Neither is Bergsons philosophy blindly optimistic. Bergsons
philosophy, Soulez argues, accepts both continuity and discontinuity, and does not treat human
societies as continuous. Eng. trans. Bergson or the Denied Literature?
M. roda. Moral Duty and Inspiration in the Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Etyka, 20.
Poznan/Warszawa: Pastwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowie, 1984: 189. Print.
Andr Suars. LArt et la vie. Lettres indites de Suarz, Rolland, Jammes, Unamuno, Bergson,
Montherlant, Paulhan Ed. Yves-Alain Favre. Paris: Rougerie, 1984: 264. Print. This work
contains eleven letters from Bergson to Suars, some previously published only in part, other
unpublished. See Works by Bergson in this bibliography, 1923, 1924, 1932-1939. Interesting

for the light they shed on Bergsons view of Suars writings, they also contain insights on
Bergsons views of individuals as different as Pascal and Napoleon.
Manfred Thiel. Bergson; Rickert; Einleitung: Boutroux. Heidelberg: Elpis-Verlag, 1984: 486. Methode,
Bd. 9. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson, Rickert, Introduction: Boutroux.
Adeline R. Tintner. The Great Condition. Henry James and Bergsonian Time. Studies in Short
Fiction, 21.2 (1984): 111-15. Print. The author holds that Henry Jamess story The Great
Condition (1899) parallels Bergsons treatment of the two sorts of time. Failure to understand
this has led to neglect of this story. No influence of Bergson on H. James is suspected by the
author.
Aldo Trione. Valry, Metodo e critica del fare poetico. Napoli: Guida Editori, 1984: 191. Print. Eng.
trans. Valry: Method and Critic of Poetic Creation.
Giamapolo Venturi. H. Bergson: un itinerario. 2nd ed. Bologna: G. Barghigiani, 1984: 23. Print. Eng.
trans. H. Bergson: An Itinerary.
Paolo Veronesi. De Bergson Foucault. Le problme de la formation du savoir dans lpistmologie
franaise contemporaine. Thesis (doctorat de 3e cycle). U de Paris-I, 1984. Print. Eng. trans.
From Bergson to Foucault. The Problem of the Formation of Knowledge in Contemporary
French Philosophy.
Paulo Veronesi. Nota bibliographica sulla fortuna di Bergson in Francia. Aut Aut, 204 (1984): 111-26.
Print. Eng. trans. Bibliographic Note Concerning the Fate of Bergson in France.
Fernando Vidal. La Vanit de la nomenclature. Un manuscrit indit de Jean Piaget. History and
Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 6.1 (1984): 75-106. Print. In this talk the young Piaget uses
Bergsons philosophy to support a nominalistic critique of biological taxonomy. The categories of
taxonomists are abstract, and to that extent artificial, according to the young scientist. The editor
correctly points out that though Bergson is not himself a nominalist, his philosophy can be used
to support a nominalistic philosophy. Eng. trans. The Vanity of Nomenclature: An Unedited
Manuscript by Jean Piaget.
Alfred North Whitehead. The Harvard Lectures, for 1924-25. Ed. Jennifer Hamlin von der Luft, in
Lewis S. Ford. The Emergence of Whiteheads Metaphysics, 1925-1929. Albany: State U of New
York Press, 1984: 262-302. SUNY Series in Philosophy. Print. These are class notes taken by
William Ernest Hocking. They include several references to Bergson, including: his philosophical
originality, p. 276; his concepts of intuition and intellect, p. 294; of being and exclusion, p. 299.
Ana Escribar Wicks. Sobre la vigencia del pensamiento tico-social de Bergson. Diss. U de Chile,
Santiago, 1984: 121. Print. Eng. trans. Concerning the Present Significance of Bergsons Social
Ethics.
1985
Raymond Aron. Rflexion sur la philosophie bergsonienne. Commentaire, 3.28-29 (1985): 351-58.
Print. This issue of Commentaire is dedicated to the historical and political thought of Raymond
Aron (1905-1983). Eng. trans. Reflections on Bergsons Philosophy.

Claudia Zo Andriamanama-Lala. Peut-on parler dune volution cratrice ? Rflexions sur Bergson et
Teilhard de Chardin. Thesis (doctorat de 3e cycle). U de Poitiers, 1985. Print. Eng. trans. Can
One Speak of a Creative Evolution? Reflections on Bergson and Teilhard de Chardin.
Jzef Baka. Intuicjonism Henryka Bergsona. Katowice: U lski, 1985: 143. Prace naukowe
Uniwersytetu slaskiego w Katowieach, 706. LA examine les opinions de Bergson sur la
connaissance, en expliquant les principales ides bergsoniennes traduites en catgories de la
dialectique. Dans les chapitres successifs il discute les sources de la pense de Bergson,
lintuition comme mthode de critique dialectique, la dialectique de lintuition selon la version
psychologique, lintuition de la dure, la dure comme donne immdiate, la mmoire comme
modalit de lexistence, le dpassement du pluralisme. A. W. in Bibliographie de la philosophie,
1987: 328. Print. The author discusses the sources of Bergsons philosophy, intuition as a method
of critical dialectic, the dialectic of intuition in psychology, the intuition of duration as immediate
experience, memory as a modality of existence, and the overcoming of pluralism. Eng. trans.
Henri Bergsons Intuitionism.
H. Barreau. Les thories philosophiques de la connaissance face la relativit dEinstein.
Communications, 41 (1985): 95-110. Print. Eng. trans. Philosophical Theories of Knowledge
and Einsteins relativity.
M. Barthlemy-Madaule. Henri Bergson. 4th Ed. Paris: d. du Seuil, 1985. (crivains de toujours.)
Jean Baruzi. LIntelligence mystique. Ed. J.-L. Vieillard-Baron. Paris: LIle Verte/Berg International,
1985: 225. Print. In his introduction the editor notes (pp. 12-21) his debts to Bergson: the idea of
studying phenomena (including mysticism) concretely, and an interest in the philosophy of art.
See Le Point de rencontre de Bergson et de la mystique, pp. 69-89 (first published 1932) (Eng.
trans. The Point at Which Bergson Encountered Mysticism) and Sur quelques rapports de la
pense mystique et de la pense mtaphysique, pp. 85-95 (first published 1934) (Eng. trans.
Concerning Some Relations Between Mystical Thought and Metaphysics.) See pp. 53-54 for
citations on Bergson and religion.
Arthur L. Benton. Bergson and Freud on Aphasia: A Comparison. Studies in Neuropsychology:
Selected papers of Arthur Benton. Eds. Louis Costa and Otfried Spreen. New York and Oxford:
Oxford U Press, 1985: 34-42. Print. This paper was given originally at the Interdisciplinary
Conference on Bergson and Modern Science, Galveston, TX, 1984, and was subsequently
published in Bergson and Modern Thought, Eds. Papanicolaou and Gunter, 1987. The author
concludes: their superb intellectual gifts enable Bergson and Freud to make contributions that
have a secure place in the history of clinical neurophysiology (p. 41).
H. Bergson. La evolucion creadora (1907). Encuentros de filosofia en Denia. Denia, 17-20 de abril 1985.
5th Ed. Ed. Maite Larrauri y Javier Urdanbia. Instituto de Bachillerato Roe Chabas, 1986, 124. An
English translation of the title of this item is: Creative Evolution (1907). Philosophical
Encounters at Denia, April 17-20, 1985.
Emmanuel Berl. Bergson in Emmanuel Berle, Essais. Ed. Bernard Merlino and Jean de Fallois. Paris:
Julliard, 1985: 325-35. Print.
A. M. Bevers. Dynamik der Formen bei G. Simmel, Eine Studie ber die methodische und theoretische
Einheit eines Gesamtwerkes. Berlin/Mnchen: Duncker und Humblot, 1985: 184.
Sozialwissenschaftliche Abhandlungen der Grres-Gesellschaft, Bd. 13. Print. The Bibliographie

de la Philosophie, 1987: 108-09 notes that this study examines among many other topics
differences between Simmels Lebensphilosophie and those of Bergson and Dilthey.
Elena Boretti. Montale e Bergson. Linque del Mondo, 50.2 (Mar.-Apr. 1985): 103-16. Print.
Antil Kumar Chaudhary. Two Faces of Evolution, Creative and Spiritual Evolution. Allalabad:
Sahityavani, 1985: x, 160. Print. This is a comparative study of the philosophies of Sri Aurobindo
and Henri Bergson.
Louis de Broglie. Mechanism Demands a Mysticism in Quantum Questions. Ed. Ken Wilbur. Boston:
Shambala, 1985: 122-25. Print. This section, taken from Broglies Physics and Microphysics
(1956), concludes in the light of atomic weapons and atomic energy generally, that Bergson was
right in stressing that new technological power demands a renewed mysticism as a supplement.
Maurice Charney, Ed. Classic Comedies. New York: Meridian, 1985, 1994: xii, 596. Print. This item
contains a translation of Bergsons Laughter by Maurice Charney.
M. Cochet. Faut-il faire lire Bergson nos lves ? Revue de lEnseignement philosophique, 36.6
(1985-1986): 55-58. Print. Eng. trans. Should We Read Bergson to Our Students?
Benedetto Croce. What is Living and What Is Dead in the Philosophy of Hegel. 3rd ed. Trans. Douglas
Ainslie. Intro. Pete A. Y. Gunter. New York: U Press of America, 1985: xxxv, 217. Print. On
pp. 213-15 after an incisive analysis and criticism of Hegels philosophy, the author notes the
emergence of a new romanticism as one condition for a true understanding of Hegels
philosophy. He sees the new romantics as setting up the old Schellingian ideal of aesthetic
contemplation: Thus Bergson, one of the writers who have attached themselves to his
movement, advocates as a metaphysic of the absolute, an intuitive knowledge qui sinstalle dans
le mouvement et adopte la vie mme des chose. But was not this just what Hegel demanded, and
the point from which he began to find a form of mind, which should be mobile as the movement
of the real (p. 214). The author adds, however, that for Hegel such a view was only a starting
point, not a conclusion. The renunciation of thought would have been asked of Hegel in vain
(p. 214).
Jean-Pierre Changeux. Neuronal Man: The Biology of Mind. Trans. L. Carey. new York: Pantheon
Books, 1985; Oxford: Oxford U Press, 1985: 348. Print. On p. 21 the author quotes Bergsons
denial that the mind is equivalent to the brain as an unfruitful hypothesis. On p. 127 he quotes
Bergsons thesis that the brain does not have a mechanism to make or even prepare images and
states that the thesis of this chapter (Ch. 5, pp. 126-69) is the exact opposite of Bergsons view.
Sheldon Currie. Freaks and Folks: Comic Imagery in the Fiction of Flannery OConnor. Antigonish
Review, 62-63 (Summer-Fall 1985): 133-42. Print. The author examines disfigurement and
absence of emotions in OConnors fiction by means of Bergsons theory of laughter.
Woo-won Choi. Sur les paradoxes de Znon. Inmum-ronchong, 28 (1985): 411-41. Print. This appears
in the humanities journal of Pusan National U (Korea). Eng. trans. On Zenos Paradoxes.
Grard Chomienne. Bergson, la conscience et la vie, le possible et le rel. Paris: Magnard, 1985: 168.
Texte et contextes. Print. Trans. with commentary of Bergsons Consciousness and Life and
The Possible and the Real.

Eric Davis. Gide, Bergson, Durkheim and the Crisis of Individualism, 1890-1914. Boston Spa, England:
British Library, Document Supply Center, 1985: ix, 266.
Gilles Deleuze. Cinema II. Limage-temps. Paris: Les ditions de Minuit, 1985: 378. Print. Eng. trans.
Cinema II. The Time-Image.
Bernard DEspagnat. Une incertaine ralit. Le monde quantique, la connaissance et la dure. Paris:
Gauthier-Villars, 1985: ix, 310. Print. See the author (1989) for annotation. Eng. trans. An
Uncertain Reality.The Quantum World, Knowledge and Duration. For annotation, see the author,
1989.
Luciano Eletti. Il problema della persona in Antonio Banfi. Firenze: La Nuova Italia Ed., 1985: 133.
Print. Eng. trans. The Problem of the Person in Antonio Banfi.
Christian Golcher Carranza. Bergson: Metafsica del arte. Revista de Filosofa de la Universidad de
Costa Rica, 23.57 (June 1985): 83-89. Print. A summary of this article in given on p. 83. Eng.
trans. Bergson: Metaphysics of Art.
Henri Gouhier. Esquisse pour une histoire philosophique du Je in LArt des confins: Mlanges offerts
Maurice de Gandillac. Eds., A. Casenare, J.-F. Lyotard. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France,
1985: 239-342. Print. The author explores the treatment of the first person pronoun in R.
Descartes, Maine de Biran, M.-F.-P. Gonthier and Bergson.
David Ray Griffin. Creativity in Post-Modern Religion in Creativity in Art, religion, and Culture. Ed.
Michael H. Mitias. Wrzburg: K&N; Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1985: 64-85. Print. The author states:
Bergson is of overwhelming importance. he spoke of evolution as creative, defining creative to
mean bringing forth something new, something not already implicit in the past (p. 68). Among
those heavily influenced by Bergson: Samuel Alexander, Lloyd Morgan, Jan Smuts, Teilhard
de Chardin, Alfred North Whitehead, Nicholas Berdyaev, Henry Nelson Wieman, Charles
Hartshorne (pp. 68-69). See also pp. 75-76 for relations between creativity and God in Bergson
and Whitehead.
David Gross. Bergson, Proust and the Revaluation of Memory. International Philosophical Quarterly,
25.4 (Dec. 1985): 369-80. Print. This article discusses the cultural re-thinking of memory and
habit which took place in Europe around 1900. Bergson led a philosophical attack on habit, but
defended a form of voluntary memory as useful for life. Proust attacked even this and defended a
kind of involuntary memory instead. Bergsons analysis of memory and habit was more
thorough, but Proust opened up insights which were to be creatively developed later in the 20th
century. Philosophers Index, 20.2 (1986): 102. print.
Bernard Gilson. LIndividualit dans la philosophie de Bergson. 2nd ed. Rev. and aug. Paris: Vrin, 1985:
110. Bibliothque dhistoire de la philosophie. Print. Eng. trans. Individuality in Bergsons
Philosophy.
Myrna Botelho Guimares. Habermas e Bergson. Um paralelo. Revista Brasileira de Filosofia, 34
(1985): 427-31. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and Habermas: A Parallel.
Alain Guy. Ortega y Gasset et Bergson. Philosophie, 11 (1985): 155-70. Print. Resum, p. 155. Eng.
trans. Ortega y Gasset and Bergson.

Alain Guy. Ortega y Gasset et Bergson in Sciences et anthropologie. Actes du colloque Colins de Ham.
Toulouse-Le Mirail, 1985: 340. Philosophie, 11. Print. Eng. trans. Ortega y Gasset and
Bergson.
Chien-hsin Hsu. On Saint Augustines Theory of Time: A Study of His Confessions. Taiwan Journal of
Theology, 7 (Mar. 1985): 19-40. Print. In Chinese.
Maurice Halbwachs. Das Gedchtnis und seine sozialen Bedingungen. Trans. L. Geldsetzer.
Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1985: 399. Print. This work was originally published in Paris, 1925.
Eng. trans. Memory and Its Social Conditions.
Helene Harth. Die Erfindung des Perpetuum Mobile: Beobachtungen zu Brancatis Komik in
Romanische Literaturbeziehungen im 19 und 20 Jahrhundert. Eds. A. San Miguel, R.
Schwaderer, M. Tietz. Tbingen: Narr, 1985: 113-30. Print. The author deals with fascism,
comedy, Bergsons theories. Eng. trans. The Invention of Perpetual Motion; Observations on
Brancatis Comedy.
Asher Idan. Bergsons Philosophy of Language (in Hebrew). Iyyun, 34.1-2 (Jan.-Apr. 1985): 34-48.
Print. This paper analyzes Bergsons philosophy of language according to four modern areas: (1)
philosophical logic and analytical philosophy; (2) philosophy of action and natural language; (3)
psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics; (4) biology and the evolution of language. My contention
is that non-canonical Continental philosophy of language (like that of Hegel or Bergson) can
throw light on many issues that the canonical philosophy of language (Russell, Wittgenstein,
Carnap, Austin, Searle, etc.) deals with. I try to show that Bergson anticipated many recent
insights concerning the primacy of action in linguistic affairs, the importance of social
considerations in understanding verbal behavior, and the practical origins of semantical and
logical paradoxes and antinomies. Philosophers Index, 19.4 (1985): 94. Print.
Dominique Janicaud. Bergson du style au langage in Hommage Jean Richter. Paris: Les Belles
Lettres, 1985: 243-49. Print. Also published in Annales de la Facult des Lettres et Sciences
Humaines de Nice, 51 (1985): 243-49. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson, From Style to Language.
Michael B. Ktz. Bergson, nur ein Bild unter Bildern in Der Traum, die Sehnsucht und das Kino. Film
und die Wirklichkeit des Imaginren. Frankfurt am Main: Syndikat, 1986: 83-89. Print. Eng.
trans. Bergson, Only an Image Among Images.
Jin-sung Kim. Berugusong yngu. Seoul: Munhagkwa Chisngsa, 1985: 196. Hyondae ui chisong, 22.
Print. Eng. trans. Bergson Studies.
Leszek Kolakowski. Henri Bergson: ein Dichterphilosoph. Munich, Zurich: Piper, 1985: ill, 138. Serie
Piper, 5204. Eng. trans. Henri Bergson: A Poetic Philosopher.
Leszek Kolakowski. Bergson. Oxford and New York: Oxford U Press, 1985: 115. Past Masters. Print.
Jean-Louis Labarrire. Intelligence et pratique chez Bergson et Piaget. Cahiers de lEducation:
LEnfant et le Primitif. Paris: U de Paris VIII (Nov. 1985): 45-68. Print. The author asks whether
la psychologie gntique de Piaget ne traduirait pas certains noncs de Bergson relatifs au
rapport entre lintelligence et laction, et plus particulirement lhistoire de ce rapport (p. 51).
He explores the possibility that Piagets conquest of objectivity and logic through the subjectobject duality translates something of Bergsons progressive adaptation of intelligence and
matter. The author finds several points at which this translation succeeds: theories of the ages

of intelligence, logico-biological schemas, the relations of intelligence to action, relations

between the closed and the open in psychological development. Bergson, however, rejects
Piagets notion of a prelogical stage.
M. Lagarce-Darbon. La Conscience. Revue de lEnseignement philosophique, 36.1 (1985): 25-35. Print.
Eng. trans. Consciousness.
Lenore Langsdorf. Schutzs Bergsonian Analysis of the Structure of Consciousness. Human Studies,
8.4 (1985): 315-24. Print. During 1924-1928, Alfred Schutz attempted to use Bergsons work to
overcome what he saw as Max Webers main problem, understanding the subjective meaning a
social act has for the actor. Although he abandoned this research in favor of an Husserlian one,
the work remains intrinsically interesting. The manuscripts from this period, edited and translated
by Helmut Wagner (1982) and Wagners commentary (1984) are the basis for this discussion of
Schutz Bergsonian period. Philosophers Index, 20.2 (1986): 112. Print.
Simon Lantieri. Bergson et le Christ des vangiles. Rsum dune confrence par Mat Dabadie. Le
Cerf-volant, 125 (Trimester 3, 4, 1985): 56-59. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson and the Christ of the
Gospels. Resum of a talk by Mat Dabadie.
Jean Largeault. Principes dune philosophie raliste. Paris: Klincksieck, 1985: 271. Philosophia, 10.
Print. Eng. trans. Principles of a Realist Philosophy.
Maite Larrauri and Javier Urdarubia, eds. H. Bergson, la evolucin creadora. Encuentros de Filosofa en
Denia, 17-20 de abril 1985. Denia (Spain): Seminario de Filosofa, Instituto de Bachillerato Roc
Chabs, D. L., 1986: 124. Print. Eng. trans. Bergson: Creative Evolution. Philosophical
Encounters in Denia, April 17-20, 1985.
Emmanuel Levinas. Ethics and Infinity: Conversations with Phillip Nemo. Trans. Richard Cohen.
Pittsburgh: Duquesne U Press, 1985: ix, 126. Print. On pp. 24-26 the author cites Bergsons
theory of duration (with its destruction of the primacy of clock time) as Bergsons principle
contribution. Without this concept Heidegger could never have ventured his conception of
Dasein as finite temporalization. On pp. 37-38 he cites Bergsons Time and Free Will and
Heideggers Sein und Zeit as among the five or six most important books in the history of
philosophy. See Bergson, Heidegger and negation on p. 40.
Salvatore Limonge. Le schegg e del tiempo. In luogo di un saggio su Henri Bergson. Annali di
Discipline Filosofiche delluniversit di Bologna, 7 (1985-1986): 155-83. Print. Eng. trans. The
Splinter of Time: Instead of an Essay on Bergson.
Valerie Ann Malhotra. Consciousness and the Social: On Wagners Phenomenology of Consciousness
and Sociology of the Life-World. Human studies, 8 (1985): 325-335. Print. This article
summarizes and critiques the major themes of Wagners work, which is based primarily upon
Alfred Schutz phenomenologically based sociology. Wagner integrates the work of Husserl,
James, Bergson, G. H. Mead, Cooley and Weber. The concepts of perception, memory, desire,
vantage point, horizon, relevance, self and world are keystones in Wagners analysis. It is
concluded that Wagners work is an important contribution to a phenomenologically based
sociology and social psychology. Some directions for further work are suggested. Philosophers
Index, 20.2 (1986): 116. Print.

Jos Mdina. Charles Bally: De Bergson Saussure. Langages, 77 (Mar. 1985): 95-104. Print. The
author explores Bergsons theory of language in comparison with those of W. Dilthey and F. de
Saussure. Eng. trans. Charles Bally: From Bergson to Saussure.
Mara Meletti Bertolini. Bergson e la psicologia. Milano: Franco Angeli, 1985: 165. Instituto di filosofia
dellUniversit di Parma, 7. Print. The books chapters are titled (in English translation): 1.
Perception and Knowledge in Bergson and Spencer; 2. The Perception of Space in the Essay and
in English Psychology; 3. The Perception of Time in the Essay and in English Psychology; 4. The
Perception of Movement in the Essay and in English Psychology; 5. The Genesis and
Development of Voluntary Activity in French and English Psychology; 6. Bergson: Free Action;
7. Perception and Voluntary Activity in Matter and Memory. Eng. trans. Bergson and
Psychology.
Franois Meyer. Pour connatre Bergson. Paris: Bordas, 1985: 125. Print. Eng. trans. In Order to Know
Bergson.
Ulrike

Muller-Glodde. Joyce Carys Erste Trilogie: als dicterische Gestaltung seiner

Wirklichkeitsauffasung. Frankfurt am Main; New York: P. Lang, c. 1985: 181. European
University Studies, Ser. XIV, Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature, Vol. 139. Print. Eng. trans.
Joyce Carys First Trilogy.

Alaziambina Gikila Nzenge. Intelligence et guerres. Essai sur la philosophie politique de H. Bergson.
Approche analytique et descriptive. Lubumashi: U Nationale de Zare, 1985: 150. Print. Eng.
trans. Intelligence and Wars. Essay on H. Bergsons Political Philosophy. Analytic and
Descriptive Approach.
P. Pelckmans. Kunstgreep naar de bovennatuur. Kanttekeningen bij het succes van Bergson. Restant,
13.2 (1985): 31-44. Print. Eng. trans. Artifice Toward Super-nature: Sketches on the Margins of
Bergsons Success.
C.M.A. Pennartz. The Relationship Between Time and Consciousness: A Study Referring to Husserl and
Bergson in Nature, Time and History. Vol. 2. P. A. Kroes, ed. Nijmegen: Fakulteit der
Wiskunde en Naturwetenschappen, Katholicke Universiteit, 1985: 21-32. Print.
Mercedes Miguel Perics. Estudio bergsoniano de las Agnosias. Revista de Filosofa (Spain), 8 (1985):
281-97. Print. Eng. trans. Bergsonian Study of the Agnosias.
Vittorio Possenti. Lo sociedad abierta en el pensamiento del siglo xx (Bergson, Popper, Maritain).
Resumi Jos Mara Vegas. Dilogo Filosfico, 1 (Sept.-Dec. 1985): 284-90. Print. Eng. trans.
The Open Society in the Thought of the Twentieth Century (Bergson, Popper, Maritain).
Carmen Gloria Revilla Guzmn. Conciencia y subjectividad en H. Bergson. Madrid: U Complutense,
1985: 483. Coleccin Tsis doctorales, 181.85. Print. Eng. trans. Consciousness and Subjectivity
in H. Bergson.
Federico Riu. Vida e Historia en Ortega y Gasset. Caracas: Monte vila Ed., 1985: 199. Rstica, Bs 62.
Print. Propio de la primera etapa filosfica de Ortega es su relacin original con la corriente
vitalstica de Nietzsche y Bergson, definada por un rechazo al irracionalismo y un intento de
sustituir la razn pura por un razn vital. [Basic to the first step in Ortegas philosophy is his
original relation with the vitalist current of Nietzsche and Bergson, defined through a recourse to
irrationalism and the intent to substitute a vital reason for a pure reason.] E. M. V. in

Bibliographie de la Philosophie, 1987: 210. Print. Eng. trans. Life and History in Ortega y
Gasset.
Andr Robinet. La Langue des Philosophes in Histoire de la Langue Franaise 1880-1914. Eds. G.
Antoine and R. Martin. Paris: Editions du CNRS, 1985: 185-96. Print. Eng. trans. The Language
of the Philosophers.
Juana Snchez Venegas. Orgen filosfico comn y desarrollo divergent de los sistemas de Henri Bergson
y Jos Ortega y Gasset. Madrid: U Comlutense, Depto. de Metafsica, 1985: 339. Print. Eng.
trans. Common Philosophical Origina and Divergent Development of the Systems of Henri
Bergson and Jos Ortega y Gasset.
Juana Snchez Venegas. Orgen Filosfico Comn y Desarrollo Divergent de los Sistemas de Henri
Bergson y Jos Ortega y Gasset. Pensamiento, 41.161 (Jan.-Mar. 1985): 57-68. Print. The
Kantian Roots of Bergson and Ortega are emphasized to explain the existing connection between
both authors. This connection is twofold. First, the identification by Ortega of his thought and
Bergsons: the bon sens is the razn vital. Second, both authors criticize the concept of identity
as received from classical philosophy. The aim of Bergson and Ortega was to find the true
knowledge accounting for life as a dynamic reality. The Kantian setting made this attempt
unsuccessful. Philosophers Index, 19.3 (1985): 93. Print. Eng. trans. Common Philosophical
Origin and Divergent Development of the Systems of Henri Bergson and Jos Ortega y Gassset.
Sigrid Sarnoff. A Bergsonian View of Agent-Causation. International Philosophical Quarterly, 25.2
(1985): 185-96. Print. From the Bergsonian view of persons and how actions happen we can
derive a nonreductive approach to making sense of agent-causation. Such a view improves upon
the simple assertion that agent-causality is irreducible to event-causality. Instead, the Bergsonian
approach grounds that irreducibility in the description of what a person is. In Bergsons view
conscious experience is a cumulative process that distinguishes persons from things whose
behavior fits event-causal patterns. Philosophers Index, 19.4 (1985): 115. Print.
Armando Savignano. Esperienza religiosa: De James a Bergson. Perugia: Editrice Benucci, 1985: 375.
Storia della Filosofia della Religione. Teorie e testi, no. 3. Print. Eng. trans Religious Experience:
From James to Bergson.
Gerhardt Schmied. Soziale Zeit: Umfang; Geschwindigkeit und Evolution. Berlin: Duncker &
Humblot, 1985: 193. Sozialwissenschaftliche Schriften, Heft 11. Print. Eng. trans. Social Time:
Magnitude, Speed and Evolution. Ch. 2 of this work (pp. 26-85), titled Bergsons Philosophy
and the Sociology of Time, deals with Bergsons time-philosophy and with its influence on
various efforts to create a sociology of time. Among those so influenced are said to H. Hubert, M.
Mauss, E. Durkheim, A. Schutz, T. Luckman, P. A. Sorokin, R. K. Merton, M. Halbwachs, R. M.
MacIver, G. Gurvitch, W. E. Moore, N. Luhmann, D. F. Pocock, and E. R. Leach.
Sanford Schwartz. The Matrix of Modernism, Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought.
Princeton: Princeton U Press, 1985: x, 235. Print. See Elements of the New Poetics, pp. 50-113;
This Invented World: Abstraction and Experience at the Turn of the Century, pp. 12-49.
Neven Sesardi. Time in the Minkowski World (in Slavic). Filozofska Istraivanja, 12 (1985): 41-48.
Print. Many of our intuitions about time can not be accommodated in the picture of the world
suggested by contemporary science. Does that prove, as Bergson claimed, that scientific
knowledge can not reach the most essential characteristics of that puzzling phenomenon, or
should we conclude, on the contrary, that some of our deeply-rooted intuitions are simply false

and that their incompatibility with science is only a sign that they are to be rejected as knowledge
of objective reality? Just this second answer forces itself upon us on the basis of arguments
presented in this paper. Philosophers Index, 21.2 (1987): 150. Print.
Richard Shusterman. Remembering Hulme: A Neglected Philosopher-Critic-Poet. Journal of the
History of Ideas, 46.4 (1985): 559-76. Print. The author argues that in philosophy Hulme was no
mere Bergson propagandist but a serious reader of G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell.
Harve M. Somersgill. Natsume Sosekis Higan Sugi Made: A Critical Study and Complete English
Translation. Diss. U Hawaii, 1985: 560. Dissertation Abstracts International, 47.02A (1985):
533. Print. The author states of the Japanese writer Sosekis novel Until After the Spring Equinox:
Soseki, at this critical juncture of his life and career, altered his stylistic aims and methods in
order to depict a more somber and agonized view of human life The enthusiastic basis for the
new mode of narration is found in his enthusiasm at the time of writing for William Jamess
lectures in Pluralistic Universe, particularly those sections which discuss Henri Bergsons lan
vital.
Young-jin Song. Bergsonge iss sunsujisoki munje. Kunsandae-ronmunjip, 11 (1985): 159-71.
Print. Journal of Kunsan University. Eng. trans. The Problem of Pure Perception in Bergson.
Philippe Soulez. Lenfant et le primitif chez Bergson et Husserl. Cahiers de lEducation. LEnfant et le
Primitif. Paris: U de Paris-VIII (Nov. 1985): 13-33. Print. The author finds significant contrasts
between Bergsons and Husserls treatment of infants, primitives, and post-scientific peoples.
Husserl continued to assume a simplistic teleology which treats the end as the whole purpose of
the human process and all intermediary positions between the beginning and the conclusion of the
process as so many steps. Hence he puts the end-product as more significant than the process, and
stresses le primat de lidtique sur le gntique (p. 20). Bergson denies this general viewpoint,
arguing, for example, that the adult is not to be understood as the goal of the child, but as the
somewhat imperfect result of the childs development. (Many possibilities are sacrificed on the
way to adulthood.) Similarly, civilized man is not the telos of uncivilized man; each is the
result of its own distinct evolution. Eng. trans. The Infant and the Primitive in Bergson and
Husserl.
Philippe Soulez. Ravaisson et Cousin in Victor Cousin. Les idologues et les cossais. Centre National
des Lettres. Paris: Presses de lEcole Normale Suprieure, 1985: 205. Print. The author traces the
historical and political, philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Victor Cousin and Flix
Ravaisson as described by Bergson in his Notice sur la vie et les uvres de M. RavaissonMollien (1904). On Bergsons view Ravaisson acted as a man of thought, Cousin thought as a
man of action. Bergsons treatment of these figures, on the historical and political side, is a
condemnation of the nineteenth century French university, within the machinery of the state.
Ravaisson succeeded in combining the artist and the philosopher: far easier to do than to unify in
oneself the man of thought and the man of action. The author concludes with a Freudian
interpretation of Ravaissons double nature. See the author, 1976.
Philippe Soulez. Piaget comme enjeu. Cahiers de lEducation. LEnfant et le Primitif. Paris: U de ParisVIII (Nov. 1985): 45-47. Print. This is an introduction to two articles on Piaget. The author notes
concerning the article by J.-L. Labarrire (pp. 45-68): Et lon dcouvre en lisant entre les lignes
de larticle de J.-L. Labarrire que Bergson met en uvre une thorie du langage plus pertinente
que celle de Piaget (pp. 45-46). [ Bergson puts into play a theory of language more
pertinent than that of Piaget] Eng. trans. Piaget as a Gamble.

Howard Trivers. The Rhythm of Being: A Study of Temporality. New York: Philosophical Library, 1985:
346. Print. For Bergsons influence on Arnold Toynbees challenge-and-response theory of
history, see pp. 285-90.
Gilbert Vincent. Lettres de Bergson F. Abauzit. Revue dHistoire de Philosophie Religieuse, 65.4
(1985): 381-94. Print. William James and Henri Bergson communicated a great deal, and each
mentioned the high opinion he had of the others work. Nevertheless, Bergson refused to preface
the French translation of Jamess Religious Experience. Bergsons letters to F. Abauzit, the
translator, reveal clearly the reasons for this refusal, based on respect for style. For Bergson, as
for James, the stylistic particulars of a philosophical text cannot be dissociated from the
formulation of its thought. William S. Sailer. Religious and Theological Abstracts, 29 (1986):
2631. Print. See the section of this bibliography titled By Bergson for Bergsons letters.
Eric Volant. Des morales. Crises et impratifs. Montral/Paris: Les ditions paulines/Mediaspaul, 1985:
245. Print. The author studies Bergsons concept of morality as one recent example alongside
those of Kant, Sartre, Mounier, Marcuse. Eng. trans. Morals, Crises and Imperatives.
Malcolm Vout and Lawrence Wilde. The Bergsonian Roots of Sorels Social Thoughts. Nottingham:
Dept. of Economics and Public Administration, Trent Polytechnic, 1985: 22. Occasional Papers
in Economics and Politics, 85.1. Print.
Loretta Wasserman. The Music of Time: Henri Bergson and Willa Cather. American Literature, 57.2
(May 1985): 226-39. Print. The author states: My contention, then, is that Bergson was an
important influence on Cathers thinking, and that his philosophical speculations concerning the
nature of time and the dynamics of memory are given strikingly parallel expression in Cathers
fiction (p. 227).
Irena Wojnar. Bergson. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna, 1985: 340. Myli i Ludzie. Print. En admettant
la thse que le bergsonisme nest pas un systme ou bien une doctrine, mais avant tout une
attitude, un genre de sensibilit qui nous inspire avec une force particulire (p. 118), lA tend
montrer la manire de philosopher de Bergson. Aprs avoir prsent sa vie et son activit, lA
porte son attention sur les problmes du temps, de la dure, de la vie, de la conscience, de la
cration, de la libert, de lhomme et de la socit. Elle esquisse aussi la situation de la pense
bergsonienne dans la philosophie franaise, la critique de et lopposition au bergsonisme et sa
prsence inspiratrice dans la philosophie contemporaine. La seconde partie du livre contient un
choix de fragments des crits de Bergson. A. W. Bibliographie de la Philosophie, 1986: 339.
Print. The author provides a general description of Bergsons philosophy, including its historical
context. The second part of this work contains passages from Bergsons writings.
Sylvain Zac. Essais spinozistes. Paris: Plon, 1985: 231. Print. Eng. trans. Spinozist Essays.
Madeleine Zbinden. Approche bergsonienne du rel. Fribourg, 1985: x, 148. Mmoire de licence
polycopi lettres Fribourg (Swiss). Print. Eng. trans. A Bergsonian Approach to the Real.
1986
Andrs Alonso Gonzles. La intuicin, nueva Fuente de Conocimiento segn H. Bergson. Studium
(Spain), 26.1 (1986): 105-30. Print. Eng. trans. Intuition, New Source of Knowledge According
to H. Bergson.

Pauline Winsome Beard. A Riddling Thing: A Study of Time in Five Twentieth-Century Novels. Diss.
Binghamton: SUNY. Dissertation Abstracts International, 47.2 (1986): 5264.
E. T. Bender. Pioneer or Gadgeteer: Bergsonian Metaphor in the Work of Willa Cather. Midwest
Quarterly, 28.1 (Autumn 1986): 130-40. Print. The author explores the complexity of Willa
Cathers attitude toward science and technology, relating Cathers views to Bergsons.
Thodore Beregi. La philosophie de lvolution cratrice in Thodore Beregi. Sur le chemin de
limmortalit: Vol. 1. Littrature et art en France. Cosne-sur-Loire: Art et posie, 1986: 189-92.
Print. Eng. trans. The Philosophy of Creative Evolution.
Harry Berghs. Denk-wijzen: Vol. 2. Een inleiding in het denken van M. Heidegger, A. Glucksmann, W.
Benjamin en H. Bergson. Leuven: Acco, 1986: 128. Print. Eng. trans. Thought-Revealings: Vol.
2. An Introduction to the Thinking of M. Heidegger, A. Glucksmann, W. Benjamin and H.
Bergson.
Andrew G. Bjelland. Response to Gunters Dynamic, Asymmetrical, Internal in Physics and the
Ultimate Significance of Time. Ed. David Griffin. Albany: State U of New York Press, 1986: 8486. Print.
Andrew G. Bjelland. Evolutionary Epistemology, Durational Metaphysics in Physics and the Ultimate
Significance of Time. Ed. David R. Griffin. Albany: State U of New York Press, 1986: 51-80.
Print.
Jos Blanco Reguerira. Husserl y Bergson: Esbozo de un Debate Imaginario. Revista de Filosofa
(Mxico), 19.1 (Jan.-Mar. 1986): 17-30. Print. Eng. trans. Husserl and Bergson: Sketch of an
Imaginary Dialogue.
Jean Burlat. Londe et le grain. Les deux versants du rel. S.I.: Le Hameau, 1986: 159. Print. Eng. trans.
The Wave and the Particle: The Two Versions of the Real.
Jean-Pierre Chedin. Deux conceptions du possible. Bergson et Aristote. Revue de lEnseignement
philosophique, 37.2 (1986-1987): 36-50. Print. Eng. trans. Two Concepts of the Possible:
Bergson and Aristotle.
Woo-won Choi. Rductionisme et vitalisme. Inmun-ron chong, 29 (1986): 263-304. Print. Appears in
the humanities journal of Pusan U. Eng. trans. Reductionism and Vitalism.
Paul Michael Cohen. Reason and Faith: The Bergsonian Catholic Youth of Pre-War France. Historical
Reflections, 13.2-3 (1986): 473-97. Print.
Guido Cusinato. Intuizione e percezione. Bergson nella prospettiva di Scheler. Annali di Discipline
Filosofiche dellUniversit di Bologna, 8 (1986-1987): 117-45. Print. Eng. trans. Intuition and
Bergson From the Perspective of Scheler.
Gilles Deleuze. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam.
Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1986: 250. See esp. 1. Theses on Movement: First
Commentary on Bergson (pp. 1-11) and 4. The Movement-Image and Its Three Varieties: Second
Commentary on Bergson (pp. 56-70). The author credits Bergson with the discovery, in Matter
and Memory (1896) of a movement-image and a time-image. This discovery still retains

such richness today that it is not certain that all its consequences have been drawn. The author
uses these two discoveries to analyze motion pictures.
Paul Douglass. Bergson, Eliot and American Literature. Lexington: U of Kentucky Press, 1986: 210.
Print. The author explores the influence of Bergson on early twentieth-century American writers.
Jack Flam. Matisse: The Man and His Art, 1869-1918. London: Cornell U Press, 1986: 523. Print. See
pp. 21, 195, 243-44, 271 and elsewhere for the artists effort to portray Bergsonian becoming.
M. Francioni. La psychopathologie phnomnologique et la smantique existentielle dEugne
Minkowski. Frnsie, 2 (1986): 177-89. Print. Eng. trans. Eugene Minkowskis
Phenomenological Psychopathology and Existential Semantics.
Manuel Garca Morente. La filosofa de Bergson in Introduccin a la Metafsica, La risa by Henri
Bergson. Mxico: Editorial Porra, 1986: xi-lxii. Print. This is a reprint of the original edition
(1903). In this introduction the author provides a general survey of Bergsons thought. In the first
section he explores Bergsons inspiration, object, and method, in the second his psychology and
in the third his metaphysics. Eng. trans. The Philosophy of Bergson.
Mary Ann Gillies. The Influence of Bergson on Early Modern British Literature. Diss. U of Oxford,
1986: 375. UMI No. AAC D-84936. Dissertation Abstracts International, 50.1A (1986): 375.
Print. This thesis seeks to explore the influence exerted by the French philosopher Henri Bergson
on early modern British literature from about 1895-1930. That Bergson played a role in the
development of the innovations which occurred in the imaginative literature of this period is
widely acknowledged. What is less clearly defined is the nature and extent of his influence; this is
the problem approached by this study.
Pinharanda Gomez. Bergson e a filosofia portuguesa. in Formas de pensamiento filosfico em Portugal
(1850-1950). Lisbon: Instituto Amaro da Costa, 1986, 293-306. Eng. trans. Bergson and
Portuguese Philosophy.
Paul Gorceix. Une interpretation bergsonienne du symbolisme : Tancrde de Visan LApport de la
Belgique. Licorne, 12 (1986): 85-100. Print. Eng. trans. A Bergsonian Interpretation of
Symbolism: Tancrde de Visan The Contribution of Belgium.
Pete A. Y. Gunter. Dynamic, Asymmetrical, Internal Relations in Physics and the Ultimate Significance
of Time. Ed. David Griffin. Albany: State U of New York Press, 1986: 81-83. Print. The author
responds here to A. G. Bjellands article on evolutionary epistemology in the same volume.
Pete A. Y. Gunter. The Necessity of Intuition: And Its Misunderstandings. Southwestern Philosophical
Review, 3 (1986): 199-207. Print. It is argued here that the concept of intuition is necessary to
Kuhns notion of the paradigm shift and Poppers treatment of falsification. Its function is to
bridge the epistemic gap between the known-but-unsatisfactory and the not-yet-understood.
Intuition is (1) holistic, (2) strongly implicit, (3) conceptually incomplete, (4) novel. Its noetic
content passes through routes of expression as it is formalized and tested. Process-relational
philosophers (James, Bergson, Whitehead) understood this notion of intuition prior to the ideas of
Kuhn and Popper. Philosophers Index, 23.2 (1989): p. 142.
Ignacio Izusquiza Otero. Henri Bergson: La Arquitectura del Deseo. Zaragosa: U de Zaragosa, 1986: 329.
Humanidades. Print. The author provides a general introduction to Bergsons philosophy. Eng.
trans. Henri B