Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson

by David Lapoujade, David Lapoujade

How is it that when we think of time, we hardly think of the role affect plays in granting us access to 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 durée (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 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.

Genres: Philosophy

100 pages, Paperback

Published June 26, 2018

About the author

David Lapoujade is a French philosopher and a professor at the Université Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne. In addition to editing the posthumous collections of Deleuze's writings, Desert Islands and Two Regimes of Madness (both published in English by Semiotext(e)), he has written on pragmatism and the work of William James.

Reviews

[katie luisa borgesius · Rating 5 out of 5]

explorations of Bergson, very much influenced by Deleuze: I can heartily recommend this as a point of access to the latter's Bergsonism, or Diff & Rep, or even his work with Guattari. more than just holding a bright candle for Deleuze's monographs, though, Lapoujade sits with them at the table and charms them right off their feet. I can't wait for him to gift us with a philosophy fully his own - which I reckon must be happening any time now.

[raphael ferraire · Rating 4 out of 5]

quando as representações morrem e a duração nos é dada, finalmente podemos experimentar o atravessamento dos fluxos da matéria e a força inumana da criação. fodaço!