Écrits sur Bergson 1890 Georges Lechalas. “Le Nombre et le temps dans leur rapport avec l’espace, à propos de Les Données immédiates. ” Annales de Philosophie Chrétienne, 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. L’action. Essai d’une critique de la vie et d’une 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 étude réaliste de l’acte et ses conséquences morales.” Revue de métaphysique 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 l’Etranger , 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. “Matière et mémoire, étude critique.” Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale , 5 (1897): 353- 89. Print. Eng. trans. “ Matter and Memory , A Critical Study.” Frédéric Rauh. “La Conscience du devenir.” Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale , 4 (1897): 659-81; 5 (1898): 38-60. Print. Eng. trans. “The Awareness of Becoming.” L. William Stern. “Die psychische Präsenzzeit.” Zeitschrift für 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 Émile Boutroux. “Letter to Xavier Léon. July 26, 1901” in Lettere a Xavier Léon e ad altri. Ed. R. Ragghianti. Napoli: Bibliopolis (1892): 70n. Print. In this letter, a portion of which is quoted here, Boutroux praises Bergson’s talk on psychophysical parallelism delivered at the Société française 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 Péguy. “Letter to Henri Bergson. July 29, 1902” in Feuillets Charles Péguy , 30: 8; Etudes bergsoniennes 8:13; Mélanges p. 553. Print. James Sully. Essay on Laughter. London: Longmans, Green (1902): xvi, 441. Print. The author claims that Bergson’s 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; Mélanges, pp. 566-68. Print. James responds here to his second reading of Matière et mémoire . James particularly agrees with Bergson’s demolition of the “dualism of object and subject in perception.” He sends Bergson a copy of The Varieties of Religious Experience. 1903 Alberto Gómez Izquierdo. Historia de la Filosofía 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; Mélanges , 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; Mélanges , 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 Matière et mémoire (Matter and Memory ) and of intuition in the Introduction à la métaphysique (An Introduction to Metaphysics ). 1904 Joseph Baruzi. Le rêve d’un siècle . Paris: Calmann-Lévy (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. “Réflexion et introspection. Contribution à l’étude de la méthode en psychologie.’ Revue Philosophique de la France et de l’Etranger , 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 author’s Idées générales 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; Mélanges , 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; Mélanges , 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; Mélanges , 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 libertà morale . Palermo: Sandron (1905). Print. Eng. trans. The Infinite Variety of Facts and Moral Freedom . 1907 Guillaume-Léonce Duprat. “La Spatialité des faits psychiques” in Revue Philosophique de la France et de l’Etranger , 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; Mélanges , p. 722. Print. This is a brief, enthusiastic thanks on receiving a copy of L’Evolution créatrice ; 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; Mélanges , pp. 724-26. Print. In this much-quoted letter, James congratulates Bergson for his L’Evolution créatrice : “O my Bergson, you are a magician, your book is a marvel . .” (p. 618). He also confesses to difficulties in understanding Bergson’s full meaning. He welcomes Bergson’s attack on the intellect, and Bergson’s 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 Bergson’s “extraordinary” L’Evolution créatrice and is inclined to accept its panpsychism but not its vitalism. Xavier Léon. “Letter to E. Halévy. August 7, 1907” in Lettere a Xavier Léon e ad altri . Ed. R. Ragghianti. Napoli: Bibliopolis (1992): 84-85n. Print. In this letter Léon notes that he has received a letter from Georges Sorel. Sorel has been immersed for a month in Bergson’s L’Evolution créatrice , 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 Bergson’s Evolution créatrice ? I find it perfectly glorious, though terribly obscure and unfinished.” 1908 Emile Boirac. La psychologie inconnue. Introduction et contribution à l’étude expérimentale des sciences psychiques . Paris: Alcan (1908): 346. Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine. Print. On pp. 40-41 the author uses Bergson’s “filter” theory of perception, as developed in Matière et mémoire (Matter and Memory ), to explain the ordinary mind’s imperviousness to psychic influence.