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Storia dell’idea di tempo: Corso al Collège de France 1902-1903

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Henri Bergson concepiva l’insegnamento come un tutt’uno con l’elaborazione delle sue opere. Il corso tenuto al Collège de France nel 1902-1903, per la prima volta tradotto interamente in italiano, era dedicato al concetto di tempo nella storia della filosofia. In queste straordinarie lezioni Bergson si confronta con Platone, Aristotele, Plotino, Galileo, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Newton e Kant. Nel cuore della metafisica occidentale il filosofo francese intravede una fondamentale negazione del tempo, impropriamente considerato come imitazione e riduzione di un’originaria eternità, inattingibile nell’immediato e esperibile solo per il tramite di un apparato simbolico. Alla luce di questa paradossale “falsa partenza” del pensiero occidentale, Bergson indica nella storia della metafisica la costante riproposizione dei suoi errori fondativi; ma vi intravede anche l’inesorabile cammino concettuale che, progressivamente, riconduce il tempo alla sua natura psicologica, quella della durata.

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First published January 1, 2018

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Popular and accessible works of French philosopher and writer Henri Louis Bergson include Creative Evolution (1907) and The Creative Mind (1934) and largely concern the importance of intuition as a means of attaining knowledge and the élan vital present in all living things; he won the Nobel Prize of 1927 for literature.

Although international fame and influence of this late 19th century-early 20th century man reached heights like cult during his lifetime, after the Second World War, his influence decreased notably. Whereas such thinkers as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean Paul Sartre, and Lévinas explicitly acknowledged his influence on their thought, Bergsonism of Gilles Deleuze in 1966 marked the reawakening of interest. Deleuze recognized his concept of multiplicity as his most enduring contribution to thinking. This concept attempts to unify heterogeneity and continuity, contradictory features, in a consistent way. This revolutionary multiplicity despite its difficulty opens the way to a re-conception of community, or so many today think.

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January 10, 2025
Una brillante e inspiradora cátedra que Henri Bergson dio a inicios del siglo XX. Este libro me ha llevado a cuestionarme el por qué de la formación de conceptos, cómo inmovilizamos la inmovilidad, la reconstrucción de la vida en signos y la eterna discusión filosófica de la duración y el movimiento.
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January 22, 2023
Más que la idea del tiempo y sus implicaciones sociales, Bergson invita a pensar en las limitaciones epistemológicas de la percepción humana. Creemos que todo lo que se puede conocer está al alcance de nuestras herramientas, pero, como el tiempo, solo podemos representarlo.
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