The Dialectic of Duration

by Gaston Bachelard

Book Overview

In The Dialectic of Duration, Gaston Bachelard addresses the nature of time in response to the writings of his great contemporary, Henri Bergson. The work is motivated by a refutation of Bergson's notion of duration - 'lived time', experienced as continuous. For Bachelard, experienced time is irreducibly fractured and interrupted, as indeed are material events. At stake is an entire conception of the physical world, an entire approach to the philosophy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786600595
• ISBN13: 9781786600592
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.7"