RT Article
T1 Bergson and Judaism
JF European journal of jewish studies
VO 12
IS 1
SP 56
OP 87
A1 Haberman, Jacob 1930-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1575369451
AB Bergson’s troublesome relation to Judaism has been examined briefly by Aimé Pallière in Bergson et le Judaisme (Paris: F. Alcan, 1933) and his ambivalent attraction to Roman Catholicism by the learned Dominican philosopher-theologian Antonin Sertillanges in Henri Bergson et le catholicisme (Paris: Flammarion, 1941). Vladimir Jankélevitch, in his study Henri Bergson (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1959), has an appendix entitled “Bergson et le Judaisme,” However, he is concerned with the affinity between Bergsonism and Judaism rather than with Bergson’s adverse criticism of the Jewish religion. I mention these studies without discussing them further in appreciation of their pioneering work and to acknowledge that I have taken cognizance of their opinions. The belief that one can ignore the work of previous scholars leaves no basis for the expectation that our own work will prove of any value to others, but I do believe that Bergson’s strictures on Judaism deserve an examination of Jewish and Christian texts as well as an analysis of time by Jewish thinkers.
K1 Bergson : universalism : particularism : temporality : clock time : duration : Father in Heaven scope of the Common Good : Parable of the Good Samaritan
DO 10.1163/1872471X-11121014