[D-G] Close reading : Bergson's conception of difference [1 paragraph]
filip
fildh at gmx.net
Mon Oct 6 13:08:58 PDT 2008
The philosophy of Bergson,
and inversely, Bergsonism promises to make an inestimable contribution to a
philosophy of difference. Such a philosophy is always at work on two
different
planes: the one methodological, and the other ontological. On the one
hand, we
must determine the differences of nature between things: only in this
way will
we be able "to return" to the things themselves, to account for them
without
reducing them to something other than what they are, to grasp them in their
being. On the other hand, if the being of things is somehow in their
differences
of nature, we can expect that difference itself is something, that it
has a nature,
that it will yield Being. These two problems, methodological and
ontological,
constantly echo one another: the problem of the differences of nature,
the prob
lem of the nature of difference. In Bergson's work, we encounter these two
problems in their connection, surprising them in their passage back and
forth.
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