Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson

Merve Tapınç

doi:10.20981/kuufefd.87428

Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson

Abstract

Both Merleau-Ponty and Bergson underlined the significance of perception and temporal aspect of the subject. However, their account significantly differs. For Merleau-Ponty, the present has priority over past and future, as the subject perceives, acts, and exists in the “present”. Merleau-Ponty’s emphasis on the priority of the present depends mostly on his prioritizing of perception and the acting subject. Bergson, on the other hand, considers perception in a relation to memory and present in a relation to duration, thus he emphasizes the possibility of organization and dis-organization of habit-world through varying degrees of repetition of useful memory-images. By showing duration as the condition of possibility for the experience of intuition, Bergson reveals the possibility of reversing habitual way of perceiving things.

Keywords

Merleau-Ponty; Bergson; Duration; Perception; Memory; Intuition

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October 30, 2014

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February 25, 2016

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Year 2014 Number: 23

DOI

https://doi.org/10.20981/kuufefd.87428

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APA

Tapınç, M. (2014). Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi, 23, 163-184. https://doi.org/10.20981/kuufefd.87428

AMA

1.Tapınç M. Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson. Kaygı. 2014;(23):163-184. doi:10.20981/kuufefd.87428

Chicago

Tapınç, Merve. 2014. “Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson”. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi, nos. 23: 163-84. https://doi.org/10.20981/kuufefd.87428.

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Tapınç M (October 1, 2014) Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi 23 163–184.

IEEE

[1]M. Tapınç, “Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson”, Kaygı, no. 23, pp. 163–184, Oct. 2014, doi: 10.20981/kuufefd.87428.

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Tapınç, Merve. “Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson”. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi. 23 (October 1, 2014): 163-184. https://doi.org/10.20981/kuufefd.87428.

JAMA

1.Tapınç M. Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson. Kaygı. 2014;:163–184.

MLA

Tapınç, Merve. “Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson”. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi, no. 23, Oct. 2014, pp. 163-84, doi:10.20981/kuufefd.87428.

Vancouver

1.Merve Tapınç. Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson. Kaygı. 2014 Oct. 1;(23):163-84. doi:10.20981/kuufefd.87428

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