1. Cavaillès’ opposition runs between ‘dialectics’ and ‘activity,’ the latter being modelled after a mainstream neo-Kantian philosophy.
2. See ‘Bergson se faisant’ (‘Bergson in the making’), his tribute to Bergson, pronounced in 1959, with its dialectic of ‘Bergson’ and ‘Bergsonism’.
3. A careful study of Canguilhem's ‘Concept and Life’ (Canguilhem, 1970: 335–364) would qualify this statement. This text gives a very useful clue to the understanding of Bergson's own theory of problems. Problems are described as an expression of life itself: it is in fact life which poses problems about life, even if man alone is able to raise truly false problems.
4. Also compare Deleuze 1994: 158 and Bergson 1934: 51. See During 2001: 67–69.
5. Louis Althusser (1968).Lire le Capital, t.I, Paris, Maspéro.