Anti-Bergson:
Bibliography & Links

Compiled by Ralph Dumain

On this site:

• Galvano Della Volpe on Henri Bergson
• The Watchdogs: Bourgeois Philosophy in Action (Excerpts) by Paul Nizan
• Bergsonianism by Auguste Cornu
• Lucien Sève sur le cas du bergsonisme
• Max Horkheimer on Materialism vs Positivism & Metaphysics
• Concept of Intuition by Theodor W. Adorno
• The Contemporary Crisis of Capitalism and the Ideology of Fascism by A. M. Deborin
• “Existentialism” by Georg Lukács
• “From Hegel to Marcuse” by Lucio Colletti
• Inventing Bergson: The Politics of Time and Modernity (Excerpts) by Mark Antliff
• “The Appearance of Reality and the Reality of Appearance” by David H. DeGrood
• Dialectical Theory of Meaning: Part Two: Linguistic Meaning (Extract) by Mihailo Marković
• The Late Vitalism of Wilhelm Reich: Selected Quotations
• Alienation, Utopia, & Hungarian intellectuals: Madách, Ady, Karinthy, Fogarasi, Nádor, Lukács, Mannheim

By R. Dumain:

• Badiou and the Bankruptcy of Fashionable French Philosophy
• Consciousness and Society: A Review
• Max Horkheimer’s Materialism: The Struggle with Traditional Theory, Science, Positivism, & Irrationalism
• For René Ménil, Caribbean Surrealist-Philosopher (Review)
• The Late Vitalism of Wilhelm Reich: Commentary
• Review: Martin Kusch, Psychologism by R. Dumain

Blogs:

• Bergson, apostle of reactionary
• Bergson's Vitalism & French Philosophy
•  irrationalism
• Nietzsche’s Super-Laughter
• Cornforth: Diamat vs. Emergent Evolution
• Emergence Blog: Start: 5 Nov 2004 - 25 Feb 2005

On other sites:

• Henri Bergson @ Reason & Society

Bibliographies & web guides:

• Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide

On other sites:

During, Elie. «'A History of Problems' : Bergson and the French Epistemological Tradition ». Article publié dans le Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol. 35, n° 1, janvier 2004.

On the place of Bergson in French philosophy.

Horkheimer, Max. “On Bergson's Metaphysics of Time,” Radical Philosophy, no. 113, May -June 2005, pp. 9-19.

Nizan, Paul. “The End of a Philosophic Parry: Bergsonism,” Les Revues, 1929, reprinted in Paul Nizan, Intellectuel Communiste (Paris:Maspero, 1967). Translated by Mitchell Abidor.

Politzer, Georges. “After the Death of M. Bergson,” La Pensée Libre, no. 1 February 1941; reprinted in Ecrits 1; La Philosophie et les Mythes, edited by Jacques Debouzy (Paris: Éditions Sociales, 1969). Translated by Mitch Abidor.

Politzer highlights the anti-Enlightenment stance of fascism and explains why only Bergson's Jewish origin kept the Nazis from showering him with more explicit praise.

Bibliography

Adorno, Theodor W. Against Epistemology: A Metacritique: Studies in Husserl and the Phenomenological Antinomies, translated by Willis Domingo (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1984; Chapter 1: Critique of Logical Absolutism; section: Concept of Intuition, pp. 45-47. (Orig. English translation 1982, orig. German 1956.)

Antliff, Mark. Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909-1939. Duke University Press, 2007.

Antliff, Mark. “The Fourth Dimension and Futurism: A Politicized Space,” The Art Bulletin, Vol. 82, No. 4, December 2000, pp. 720-733.

Antliff, Mark. Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993. See also: Inventing Bergson: The Politics of Time and Modernity (Excerpts).

Bachelard, Gaston. The Dialectic of Duration, translated and annotated by Mary McAllester Jones; introduction by Cristina Chimisso. Manchester: Clinamen, 2000. Reprint: London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016.

Bachelard, Gaston. Intuition of the Instant (1932), translated from the French by Eileen Rizo-Patron. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2013.

Bloch, Ernst. Heritage of Our Times (1935), translated by Neville and Stephen Plaice. Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991. See “Bergson’s élan vital,” pp. 319-324.

Burwick, Frederick; Douglass, Paul; eds. The Crisis in Modernism: Bergson and the Vitalist Controversy. Cambridge [UK]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. See table of contents and publisher description.

Canales, Jimena. The Physicist & the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015.

Casarino, Cesare. “Gramsci’s Bergson,” in Gramsci in the World, edited by Roberto Dainotto and Fredric Jameson (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020), pp. 77-92.

Cornu, Auguste. “Bergsonianism and Existentialism,” in Philosophic Thought in France and the United States, edited by Marvin Farber (Buffalo: University of Buffalo, 1950), pp. 151-168;  Bergsonism, pp. 156-161. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1968.)

Grogin, R. C. The Bergsonian Controversy in France, 1900-1914. Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 1988.