Bergson: tempo e ação

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa: Storia e Tempo ne "Il Gattopardo"

La personalità di Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, così come la sua opera , sfuggono ad una convenzionale catalogazione. Erede di una antichissima famiglia dell'aristocrazia siciliana, sposato alla psicoanalista lettone Licy Wolff a sua volta discendente di un importante casato baltico,  raffinato conoscitore della letteratura inglese e francese, lo scrittore è di fatto un outsider  nel panorama s...

The Socratic Bergson

Chronic Conditions: Beckett, Bergson and Samuel Johnson

This article analyses the work of the twentieth-century late modernist Samuel Beckett, in light of the turn-of-the-century anti-rationalist Henri Bergson (1859-1941) and the eighteenth-century neoclassicist Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). What unites these three very different thinkers is a concern over habitual, automatic and involuntary behavior, which in all three cases has a distinctly neurolog...

Elan vital chez Bergson

La Philosphie de Bergson vise la vie spirituelle, le spiritualisme, la joie, l’appétit et le changement perpétuel de la réalité. En conséquence las trios notions de la durée, de la mémoire et de l’élan vital constituent la réalité de la vie dans son cheminement et dans son progrès. L’ensemble de ces notions fondamentales décèle la contenu de la vie, et dégage la réalité de ses rigidités de l’au...

Bergson, Deleuze and the Becoming of Unbecoming

Deleuze understood Bergson as perhaps the greatest theorist of difference, the theorist whose insistence brought difference into philosophy and showed that philosophy was irresistibly drawn, insofar as it is directed by real questions and problems, those that impinge on us without relief, to that which differs from itself, to that which exists only as becoming. For Bergson, philosophy brings to...