Bergson dal vivo

EDITORIALE / Federica Buongiorno, Rocco Ronchi, Caterina Zanfi / Si può a buon diritto sostenere che la cultura europea del...

INTERVISTE / 1 / a cura di Rocco Ronchi / In this interview Rocco Ronchi draws the attention of Arnaud François and Camille Riquier on the major theoretical contributions of Bergson’s...

ARTICOLI / 1 / Federico Leoni / This article explores some aspects of Bergson’s organology, namely of his interpretation of the differences between what he assumes to be two great...

ARTICOLI / 2 / Élie During / The recently published transcripts of Bergson’s 1903-1904 course on the history of memory theories, held at the Collège de France, shed new light on...

ARTICOLI / 3 / Leonard Lawlor / L’évolution du problème de la liberté is a course in the history of philosophy. While the historical expositions are fascinating, what makes the course...

CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Alessandra Campo / Every time Bergson wants to describe the way by which traditional metaphysics has thought the relation between God and the world, eternity and time,...

CONTRIBUTI / 2 / Salvatore Grandone / The article analyzes the Bergsonian historiographical approach in his courses at College de France (1902-1905). In these lessons Bergson shows a deep sensibility in explaining the questions of History of Philosophy. Compared to...

ARTICOLI / 4 / Sylvain Roux / In the course in the Collège de France of 1904-1905, Bergson analyzes the various theories of freedom which were since Antiquity proposed. There he finds the opportunity to present the main aspects of his...

ARTICOLI / 5 / Paolo Di Leo / This article deals with the concept of freedom in Bergson and in Plotinus. This concept is a central one in Bergson’s work, as he himself remarks many times: it is on this concept...

CONTRIBUTI / 3 / Saverio Mariani / This paper analyzes the peculiar relationship between Bergson and Spinoza by the means of three sources. The history of philosophy excursus in the Creative Evolution, and two lessons held by Bergson. In the first...

CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Tommaso Giordani / Taking issue against an established view, which reduces the interactions between Bergson and Sorel to a shared ‘irrationalism’, the article reconstructs successive phases of engagement between the two, focussing on the question of the...

INTERVISTE / 2 / a cura di Caterina Zanfi / In this interview, Frédéric Worms takes Bergson’s distinction between “two senses of life” in an original direction and explains what his own “critical vitalism” owes to Bergson’s thought. He considers those...

ARTICOLI / 6 / Keith Alan Robinson / Although both Bergson and Whitehead respond to Zeno in their mature works they take opposing paths.  For Whitehead Zeno’s paradoxes are formative for his own conception of time and process such that there can...

ARTICOLI / 7 / Jean-Claude Dumoncel / Bergson has defined a dynamic schema which challenges structuralism in advance and opens a new path to modal metaphysics. While structuralism carries as its cross its commitment to the Saussurian synchronism, the Bergsonian scheme is...

ARTICOLI / 8 / Peter A. Y. Gunter / It is often assumed that Bergson’s intuition is a dead end: much goes into it, but nothing comes out of it. In this article I attempt to show that this is not so....

ARTICOLI / 9 / Luca Vanzago / In this paper I address the problem of discussing if and to what extent could Whitehead’s philosophy be compared to, and even derived from, Bergson’s work. The aim of such an undertaking is however...

CONTRIBUTI / 5 / Ulysse Gadiou / The purpose of this article is to discuss, through Bergson and Whitehead, the status of the order of nature in a philosophy of immanence. After a brief outline of the way Bergson and Whitehead...

CONTRIBUTI / 6 / Giulio Piatti / When Henri Bergson, in Duration and simultaneity, intends to show that durée constitutes the ‘pattern’ of reality, he refers to Alfred North Whitehead’s «beautiful» book on the philosophy of nature (The Concept of Nature). Whitehead,...

ARTICOLI / 10 / Didier Debaise / Whitehead’s philosophy can be interpreted as a vast inquiry into the experience of the Moderns: how did they invent a particular conception of nature? Which interests did it correspond to? What were its effects...