Life, thinking and phenomenology in the early Bergson
pp. 118-133
in: Michael Kelly (ed), Bergson and phenomenology, Berlin, Springer, 2010Abstract
How should we appraise Bergson's relation to phenomenology? There are different ways to tackle this question. In the following my focus will be quite narrow. I will restrict myself to a close reading of Bergson's doctoral dissertation Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience. The question I wish to ask is basically whether the analysis of consciousness that Bergson provides in the second chapter of the dissertation is phenomenologically convincing.
