BERGSON, Henri (1859-1941). Set of 8 documents: 3 L.A.S., 2 - Lot 274

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BERGSON, Henri (1859-1941). Set of 8 documents: 3 L.A.S., 2 - Lot 274
BERGSON, Henri (1859-1941). Set of 8 documents: 3 L.A.S., 2 C.A.S., 1 C.V.A. and 1 L.D.S. Paris, 1900, 1906, 1910, 1915, 1924 and n.d. 14 pp. of various sizes. Bergson talks about his speech at the Lycée Voltaire, his unedited lectures at the Collège de France, his work on Laughter (Paris, Félix Alcan, 1900), etc. -To a colleague: "[...] The struggle is terrible. It exceeds all that we could have imagined; but the outcome is not doubtful, and perhaps it is even closer than we thought. The German moral energy resides entirely in the consciousness that it has of its strength (and that seems to begin already), discouragement will come, and things will go quickly from then on; we draw our courage from deeper sources [...] ". -To Jean Bourdeau (1848-1928) French philosopher and essayist, specialist in German philosophy. -About the book Entre deux servitudes: "I had read most of the studies that compose it; but I had great pleasure in rereading them [...]. They are mutually enlightening and complementary and their whole is summarized in a certain well-defined attitude of mind, which does not seem to be very far from the pragmatic attitude, in the best sense of the word; you judge theories - not without reason, in my opinion, according to their way of behaving in the field of action [...]". -L.D.S. Paris, January 1, 1924. 2 pp. folio. Autograph erasures and additions. Header of the League of Nations. Trace of paperclip. Resolutions taken at the S.D.N. to encourage intellectual mutual aid between nations with measures to be taken. "It follows from this resolution that it is in France's great interest, as well as a kind of obligation, to constitute without delay a National Committee for Intellectual Cooperation. In order for it to maintain the great influence it has exercised until now [...]". Its representatives should be the representatives "of the main French intellectual forces". etc. We enclose: -a L.A.S. from Jean Bourdeau to André Chaumeix on Bergsonism. 1913. 2 pp. 1/2 in-4. -A pencil drawing of Bergson at the Collège de France, dated 1914. -manuscripts of Bergson's lectures (Theories of Knowledge, On the Immortality of the Soul, On the Existence of God, etc). 35 pp. in-4 -a proof of an article by Chaumeix devoted to Bergson with autograph corrections -a period copy of a letter by Bergson on biological philosophy and pragmatism from the Chaumeix archives. [1921]. 3 pp. 1/2 in-4.
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