Bergson and His Philosophy Part 10

1910 NEW INTRODUCTION WRITTEN IN ENGLISH FOR THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF MATIERE ET MEMOIRE.

This new introduction was subsequently translated into French and prefaced to the next French edition of Matiere et Memoire which appeared. This was the seventh edition. The English translation by Nancy Margaret Paul and W. Scott Palmer was published in 1911 (see note under date 1896).

The new introduction called attention mainly to the change in orthodox opinion regarding aphasia which had come about since the original publication of the work in French in 1896--a change of view which only served to make Bergson's opinions appear less novel and more probable.

1910 RAPPORT SUR UN OUVRAGE DE M. DAURIAC.

Le musicien-poete Wagner: etude de psychologie musicale.

Seances de l'Academie des sciences morales et politiques.

1910 RAPPORT SUR UN OUVRAGE DE M. JOUSSAIN.

ent.i.tule:-- Le Fondement psychologique de la morale.

Seances de l'Academie des sciences morales et politiques.

1910 L'INCONSCIENT DANS LA VIE MENTALE Remarques a propos d'une these soutenue par M.

Dwelshauvers (Now Belgian Professor.) An address delivered to the Societe in the previous November.

Published in the Bulletin de la Societe francaise de philosophie, Feb., 1910. Here Bergson has another encounter with a critic. As far back as 1901 Bergson contributed to this same periodical an article bearing this t.i.tle. M.

Georges Dwelshauvers criticized Bergson's views in his articles--

"Raison et Intuition," etude sur la philosophie de M. Bergson, in La Belgique artistique et litteraire, Nov.-Dec., 1905, and April, 1906.

"Bergson et la methode intuitive," in the Revue des Mois, Sept., 1907.

"De l'intuition dans l'acte de l'esprit," in the Revue de metaphysique et de morale, Jan., 1908.

1911 L'INTUITION PHILOSOPHIQUE.

Paper read at the Fourth International Congress of Philosophy, held at Bologna, April 5 to 11, 1911. Published in Nov. in Revue de metaphysique et de morale (Numero exceptionel), pp. 809-827. To reappear in forthcoming second volume of collected papers.

1911 LA PERCEPTION DU CHANGEMENT.

Deux conferences faites a l'Universite d'Oxford, les 26 et 27 Mai, 1911.

Published in original French by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, in 1911. (Out of print now.) To reappear in forthcoming second volume of collected essays and lectures.

1911 LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS.

The Huxley Lecture delivered at University of Birmingham, May 29, 1911. Published in The Hibbert Journal for Oct., 1911, Vol X, pp. 24-44, and also in the volume Huxley Memorial Lectures in 1914.

In a revised and somewhat developed form this appeared in 1919 in the volume of collected essays and lectures L'Energie spirituelle, pp. 1-29 (Mind-Energy, 1920).

1911 VERITE ET REALITE Introduction of sixteen pages written for the French Translation of William James' Pragmatism. Translated by Le Brun. Published Flammarion, Paris.

1911 LES REALITES QUE LA SCIENCE N'ATTEINT PAS.

Article in Foi et Vie (French Protestant Review).

1911 LA NATURE DE L'AME.

Four lectures delivered at the University of London, Oct., 1911. Up to the time of writing, these lectures have not been published Reports are to be found, however, in The Times, Oct 21, 23, 28 and 30, 1911 (For definite information regarding these lectures, I am indebted to Mr. Reginald Rye, Librarian of the University of London, to the University of London Press, and to Professor Bergson himself.)

1912 L'AME ET LE CORPS.

Conference faite pour la Societe Foi et Vie. Published in Le Materialisme actuel, Paris, 1913, Flammarion.

During the year 1912, the Paris Review Foi et Vie arranged a series of lectures on Materialism. These were given in Paris, alternating with a series on Pascal, likewise arranged by Foi et Vie, under the direction of in Paul Doumergue, chief editor This was the sixth year in which such courses of lectures had been arranged by this Review. The most of these lectures were subsequently published in the Review itself, but the 1912 lectures on Materialism were issued separately in a volume ent.i.tled Le Materialisme actuel, published in the Bibliotheque de philosophie scientifique, with a preface by in Paul Doumergue. Two ill.u.s.trious names headed the list of lecturers--those of Henri Bergson and the late Henri Poincare. Bergson's lecture bears the t.i.tle L'Ame et le Corps, pp. 7-48. (I am told by Prof.

Bergson that it is a Summary of the four unpublished London lectures.) This was reprinted in 1919 in L'Energie spirituelle, pp.

31-63 (Mind-Energy, 1920).

1912 PREFACE written for the French Translation of Eucken's Der Sinn und der Wert des Lebens Le sens et la valeur de la vie--translated by M. A.

Hullet and A. Leicht. Published, Paris, Alcan.

1912 LETTER ON HIS PHILOSOPHY IN RELATION TO THEOLOGY.

Written to Father de Tonquedec, S J, in the Jesuit periodical Les Etudes of Feb 20, 1912,Vol Cx.x.x, pp 514-515.

Father de Tonquedec had criticized Bergson's philosophy from the point of view of Roman Catholic Theology.

The following are amongst his criticisms: La Notion de la veritt dans la philosophie nouvelle, Paris, 1908.

Comment interpreter l'ordre du monde a-propos du dernier ouvrage de in Bergson, Paris, Beauchesne, 1908.

Bergson est-il moniste? Article in Les Annales de philosophie chretienne, March, 1912.

Dieu dans l'Evolution creatrice, Beauchesne, 1912, which gives two letters from Bergson

1913 FANTOMES DE VIVANTS ET RECHERCHE PSYCHIQUE Presidential address to the British Society for Psychical Research. Delivered at the Aeolian Hall, London, May 28, 1913. Published report in the Times, May 29, 1913; and of the New York Times, Sept 27,1914, Proceedings of the Society, Vol 1914-15, pp 157-175.

This address was reprinted in 1919 in L'Energie spirituelle, pp 65-89. English Translation: Mind- Energy, 1920.

1914 LETTER TO "LE FIGARO."

Letter on his Philosophy generally, March 7, 1914.

1914 THE PROBLEM OF PERSONALITY.

The Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University One course of eleven lectures, given in the Spring. The Autumn course was abandoned owing to the War.

These lectures have not yet been published. (For information regarding them I am indebted to Mr. F. C.

Nicholbon, Librarian of the University of Edinburgh, and to Prof. Bergson himself.)

1914 LA FORCE QUI S'USE ET CELLE QUI NE S'USE PAS.

Article written for the famous organ of the poilus. Bulletin des Armees de la Republique francaise, Nov. 4, 1914.

1914 HOMMAGE AU ROI ALBERT ET AU PEUPLE BELGE.

Contribution to King Albert's Book, issued by the Daily Telegraph.

1915 LA SIGNIFICATION DE LA GUERRE Collection of War speeches and writings in the series Pages actuelles, 1914-15. Published by Bloud et Gay, Paris, 1915. Small volume of 47 pages Contains: 1. Discours p.r.o.nonce a l'Academie des Sciences morales et politiques le 12 dec, 1914, pp 7-29. This was a Presidential address La Signification de la Guerre.

2. Allocution p.r.o.noncee a l'Academie le 16 Jan, 1915, a l'occasion de l'installation de M. Alexandre Ribot au fauteuil de la presidence (in succession to Bergson).

Reported only in part, pp 33-35.

3. La force qui s'use et celle qui ne s'use pas, pp 39-42.

Reprinted from the pages of the Bulletin des Armees de la, Republique francaise, Nov. 4, 1914.

4. Hommage au Roi Albert et au Peuple Belge, pp 45-46.

Reprinted from King Albert's Book, War publication of Daily Telegraph.

Items Nos 1 and 3 have been translated into English as The Meaning of the War, with preface by Dr. H.

Wildon Carr. Published 1915, Fisher Unwin. No. 1 appeared in The Hibbert Journal in English, as "Life and Matter at War," April, 1915, pp. 465-475; and in the American paper The Living Age on July 31, 1915, pp. 259-264

1915 AUTOUR DE LA GUERRE A discourse on the Evolution of German Imperialism, delivered before the Academie des Sciences morales et politiques. Published in La Revue, Feb.-March, 1915, pp. 369-377.

1915 LA PHILOSOPHIE.

Ouvrage publie sous les auspices du ministre de l'Instruction publique. A delightful little work of 27 pages.

Reprinted from La Science francaise, Tome I.

Published in the series of that name by Larousse, Pans, and costing fifty centimes. It is a review of French Philosophy, and contains a bibliography, and portraits of the philosophers, Descartes, Malebranche, Pascal, and Renouvier.

1916 LETTRE A PROF. HOFFDING.

Published in the original French in the French edition of the Danish Professor's Lectures on Bergson; La Philosophie de Bergson expose et critique par H.

Hoffding, Professeur a l'Universite de Copenhague.

Traduit d'apres l'edition danoise avec un avant- propos par Jacques de Coussange et suivi d'une lettre de M. Bergson a l'auteur. Alcan, Paris. The letter, pp.