Jean Ullmo, Henri Bergson and Heidegger

Jean Ullmo died in 2002 and has little visibility on the web. The two exceptions are

1. The Agreement Between Mathematics and Physical Phenomena at Mario Bunge on Google Books
2. Is Mathematics By Nature Incapable of Describing Real Change? at Le Lionnais on Google Books

Jean Ullmo's 1969 La Pensée Scientifique Moderne from the Champs [fields] series of Flamarrion (also a 1970 with ISBN10 of 2-08-081092-8) is all but invisible on the internet.

Ullmo's book is notable for his attention to Bergson (although it lacks an index.)  The eclsipse of Bergson by Heidegger in post-1945 France is a phenomenon debated in its own right: Bergson perished during the war.

What struck me most forcefully some weeks ago was the language of the 1909 German translation of Bergson's Introduction to Metaphysics (surely Heideggerians cannot reject out of hand what language alone has conveyed.)  Heidegger links Bergson with Scheler but is otherwise dismissive of him in Being and Time.

By Ingarden's account, Husserl only became aware of Bergson on time consciousness in early 1914.

I have added a link to this note at aule-browser.com

See also:

• Bergson and modern physics: a reinterpretation and re-evaluation (Milič Čapek)
• Intuicja i intelekt u Henryka Bergsona (Roman Ingarden)
• Scheler on Bergson and homo faber

[in a series; to be continued ... here but later ...]

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/