Bergson and His Philosophy eBook

John Alexander Gunn
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 229 pages of information about Bergson and His Philosophy.

Bergson and His Philosophy eBook

John Alexander Gunn
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 229 pages of information about Bergson and His Philosophy.
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 entitled Le Materialisme actuel, published in
     the Bibliotheque de philosophie scientifique, with a preface
     by in Paul Doumergue.  Two illustrious names headed
     the list of lecturers—­those of Henri Bergson and the
     late Henri Poincare.  Bergson’s lecture bears the title
     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     Bergson that it is a Summary of the four unpublished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 CXXX, 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 créatrice, 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 toLe 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.)

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