Consciousness or life?
Bergson between phenomenology and metaphysics
pp. 245-257
in: Michael Kelly (ed), Bergson and phenomenology, Berlin, Springer, 2010Abstract
It is understood that it is important to determine the place of consciousness in our life, and that at the turn of the twentieth century this was a problem common to both Bergson and "phenomenology,' that of Husserl at least. For both these philosophers, to return to the "things themselves' is neither to escape from our consciousness nor from our lives, but to criticize a false conception of each (and through them of all things), and to return to them in their immediate and intimate connection, the principle of access not only to a rigorous philosophy in general (of all things), but also to a double unity, to the meaning of life for consciousness and to the role of consciousness in our lives.
