Kant’s spatialization of time. A bergsonian perspective
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space, time, Bergson, Kant, intuitionAbstract
The criticism that Bergson addresses to Kant is well known, even if only superficially: Kant “spatialized” time, understood it in terms of space losing sight of real time, “durée”. Sadly, as if the validity of his criticism were self-evident, or as if its comprobation were left as some sort of exercise for the reader, Bergson never wrote a rigorous study of the Critique of Pure Reason. The only way to carry out such a comprobation must consist in an analysis of Kant’s text. Is the first Critic really guilty of “spatializing” time? If so, how
and why does it do it? And what are the repercussions that stem from it? To answer these questions it turns necessary to read the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic from a Bergsonian perspective in an attempt to discover just to what extent -taking into account the arguments of Kant himself- the criticism of Bergson holds true.
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