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Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson

Year 2014, Issue: 23 - Kaygı (23) 2014, 163 - 184, 30.10.2014
https://doi.org/10.20981/kuufefd.87428

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.

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Year 2014, Issue: 23 - Kaygı (23) 2014, 163 - 184, 30.10.2014
https://doi.org/10.20981/kuufefd.87428

Abstract

References

  • AL-SAJİ, Alia (2007) “Temporality of Life, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty and the Immemorial Past”, Southern Journal of Philosophy, 45.2: 177-206.
  • BERGSON, H. (1922) Creative Evolution. Translated by A. Mitchell, London: MacMillan.
  • BERGSON, H. (2002) Creative Mind, An Introduction to Metaphysics. Translated by Andison, M.L, New York: Citadel Press.
  • BERGSON, H. (1991) Matter and Memory. Translated by Nancy Margaret Paul and W. Scott Palmer, New York: Zone Books.
  • BERGSON, H. (1910) Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness. Translated by F.L. Pogson, London: George Allen and Unwin.
  • JACOBS, Hanne and PERİ Trevor, (2010) “Intuition and Freedom: Bergson, Husserl and the Movement of Philosophy.” In Bergson and Phenomenology, edited by Michael R. Kelly, pp. 101-117, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • KELLY Michael R. (2010) “L’ecart: Merleau-Ponty’s separation from Husserl; Or, Absolute Time Constituting Consciousness.” in Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Religion, Art, and Perception edit. Semonovitch Kascha and DeRoo Neal Continuum Publishing.
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  • WORMS, Frédéric. (2010) “Consciousness or Life? Bergson between Phenomenology and Metaphysics”, in Bergson and Phenomenology, edited by Michael R.Kelly, pp.245-257, Palgrave Macmillan.
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Merve Tapınç This is me

Publication Date October 30, 2014
Submission Date February 25, 2016
Published in Issue Year 2014 Issue: 23 - Kaygı (23) 2014

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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 Tapınç M. Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson. Kaygı. October 2014;(23):163-184. doi:10.20981/kuufefd.87428
Chicago Tapınç, Merve. “Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson”. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi, no. 23 (October 2014): 163-84. https://doi.org/10.20981/kuufefd.87428.
EndNote 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 M. Tapınç, “Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson”, Kaygı, no. 23, pp. 163–184, October 2014, doi: 10.20981/kuufefd.87428.
ISNAD Tapınç, Merve. “Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson”. Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi 23 (October 2014), 163-184. https://doi.org/10.20981/kuufefd.87428.
JAMA 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, 2014, pp. 163-84, doi:10.20981/kuufefd.87428.
Vancouver Tapınç M. Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson. Kaygı. 2014(23):163-84.

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