Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson

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Kaygı. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Dergisi
Issue:23 - Kaygı (23) 2014
Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson

Perception and Time-Experience in Merleau-Ponty and Bergson

Pages : 163-184

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Publication Date : 2014-10-30

Article Type : Research Paper

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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