Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson

by Lapoujade, David
ISBN: 9781517904272
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Overview

How is it that when we think of time, we hardly think of the role affect plays in granting us access to time: the sense of waiting, regret, mourning, melancholy? In Powers of Time, David Lapoujade returns to two central themes that continuously converge throughout the writings of the French philosopher Henri Bergson: dur e (duration) and intuition. If duration is synonymous with memory, how are we then capable of thinking an authentic sense of the future? Does this mean that freedom is nothing more than a reprisal of our past?

Lapoujade uncovers multiple versions of Bergson: a philosopher of sympathy, a melancholic philosopher, a perspectivist Bergson, a spiritualist Bergson. Leading us beyond simplistic anthropomorphic conceptions of temporality and intuition, Lapoujade's multiple Bergsons guide us to encounter a rapport with time, memory, and duration that places us in direct contact with the nonhuman flows and movements of the universe.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Lapoujade, David
  • ISBN: 9781517904272
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.90 x 0.40
  • Number Of Pages: 100
  • Publication Year: 2018
Language: English