Henri Bergson and Martin Heidegger

I have put up a page here on Bergson in German translation as "Einführung in die Metaphysik".  There are striking parallels of that German version of Bergson to Heidegger's own text of the same name.

You might not see this if you do not have Heidegger in the original to compare to that translation from the Eugen Diederich Verlag, Jena 1909.

Husserl was of course very much aware of Bergson on time and time was an early topic for Heidegger as an assistant to Husserl.  And then there is all of Heidegger's work on Aristotle as relates to motion, space and other related topics especially just before 1927 in his effort to secure the chair at Freiburg.

It is so striking to think that Heidegger saw himself as overcoming the dominant French philosopher - a Jew - and then to consider the sad fate of Bergson in occupied France in 1941.  Heidegger, through Jean Beaufret and others, would triumph in spite of - or even because of - the misappropriations of Heidegger's thinking and his very thoughts by the crypto-Hegelian and Cartesian J-P Sartre.  A territory reclaimed. A Bereich dominated (but a Beriech was to remain in the air ...)

It will be a happy irony if renewed interest in Schopenhauer is accompanied by renewed interest in Aristotle and Bergson: the texts of all three should be laid out on your desk when making sense of Heidegger's peculiarities as the Fuehrer - the oddities of what is Gestell - in the Heideggerian Einfuehrung and its particular Bestimmung from which Derrida says Heidegger was never to distance himself.

I will post a reconstruction at aule-browser.com (the text I have is in Fraktur) once I have a text and tie it to the Heidegger text using the Curl web content language for text from http://www.curl.com/