Henri Bergson 1

Abstract

In 1896, at the tail end of what has been referred to as a "golden age" for the study of memory, Henri Bergson published his groundbreaking Matter and Memory: An Essay on the Relation of the Body to the Mind . With the aim of providing an overview of Bergson's philosophy of memory that can also serve as a point of entry to his philosophy as a whole, this chapter explores the different senses and forms of memory that Bergson describes, paying special attention to how they are distinct from one another and how they are unified. It is my intention to show that, although these various senses and forms of memory are different from one another (sometimes essentially so), they are also continuous and unified insofar as they are equivalent to different tones of one mental life and to different tensions of one duration.

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