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 from the start an animated structure, in which the virtual object performs a double move. It involves a ‘catastrophe’ (cfr. Thom&Petito) within the philosophical theory of colors in the form of a Riemanian multiplicity. Moreover, in the Bergsonian metaphysics, Hamlet demonstrates a «creation of the possible through the real» which requires a new concept of possibility, corresponding to its concept of the virtual. When Deleuze states that Albertine is a «possible world», he lays down the foundation of a modal logic which is exactly suitable for this kind of modality. And it is only when Bergson, Proust, Péguy and Deleuze embark together on the Bergsonian ‘boat’ that the true meaning of the Bergsonism may be unveiled. Therefore, on a lineage where Plato comes first and Leibniz comes second, Bergson is the third.
