Bergson on Memory

TitleBergson on Memory
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of PublicationSubmitted
AuthorsKeith Ansell-Pearson, Susannah Radstone, Bill Schwarz,
Pagination61-77
PublisherFordham University Press
CityNew York
Notes

'\n{61} In this chapter on Bergson and memory I shall focus on two key questions that Henri Bergson sought to establish as the foundation for a philosophical treatment of memory. First, what is the relation between past and present? Is it merely a difference in degree, or [is] it possible to locate the difference between them as one of kind? Second, what is the status of the past? Is it something merely psychological, or might it be possible to ascribe an ontological status to it? In other words, what is the reality of the past?\n'