Cours sur la philosophie grecque - Cours Tome 4

by Henri Bergson

Ce quatrième volume regroupe quatre cours que Bergson a consacrés à la philosophie grecque, de 1884 à 1899.
Un cours sur Plotin, vraisemblablement donné à l'Ecole normale supérieure en 1898-1899, constitue le centre de ce volume.
Un cours plus général et scolaire, sur l'histoire de la philosophie grecque, donné dans la khâgne du lycée Henri-IV en 1894-1895. Quelques pages aussi d'un cours de classe terminale au lycée de Clermont-Ferrand, première ébauche du cours de Henri-IV, par un tout jeune professeur de lycée. Enfin, le " Cahier noir ", vraisemblablement témoin du tout premier enseignement universitaire de Bergson, chargé de cours à l'Université de Clermont-Ferrand, en 1884 ou 1885.
Les trois derniers textes de ce volume préparent le premier. Et celui-ci indique l'une des étapes essentielles de la transition entre Matière et mémoire (1896) et L'Evolution créatrice (1906). L'intime corrélation entre les Cours et les œuvres majeures s'en trouve confirmée.

278 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

Popular and accessible works of French philosopher and writer Henri Louis Bergson include Creative Evolution (1907) and The Creative Mind (1934) and largely concern the importance of intuition as a means of attaining knowledge and the élan vital present in all living things; he won the Nobel Prize of 1927 for literature.

Although international fame and influence of this late 19th century-early 20th century man reached heights like cult during his lifetime, after the Second World War, his influence decreased notably. Whereas such thinkers as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean Paul Sartre, and Lévinas explicitly acknowledged his influence on their thought, Bergsonism of Gilles Deleuze in 1966 marked the reawakening of interest. Deleuze recognized his concept of multiplicity as his most enduring contribution to thinking. This concept attempts to unify heterogeneity and continuity, contradictory features, in a consistent way. This revolutionary multiplicity despite its difficulty opens the way to a re-conception of community, or so many today think.

Reviews

[Saverio Mariani · Rating 4 out of 5]

I corsi che il professor Bergson ha tenuto sulla filosofia greca, o più specificatamente – in due casi – sugli Alessandrini e Plotino.

Tutti i testi si trovano a metà fra la pubblicazione di Materia e memoria e L'evoluzione creatrice. Ci dànno quindi il polso della preparazione e della genealogia, per usare un termine molto in voga, della grande opera del 1907 di Bergson.

I corsi sono chiari e utili, quindi. Tuttavia vi è un magrissimo commento da parte dei curatori, un apparato di note molto superficiale.