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Full Idea
Bergson was a rallying point for all the opposition, …not so much because of the theme of duration, as of the theory and practice of becoming of all kinds, of coexistent multiplicities.
Gist of Idea
Bergson was a rallying point, because he emphasised becomings and multiplicities
Source
report of Henri Bergson (Matter and Memory [1896]) by Gilles Deleuze - A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? I
Book Ref
Deleuze,Gilles: 'Dialogues II' [Continuum 2006], p.11
A Reaction
The three heroes of Deleuze are Spinoza, Nietzsche and Bergson. All philosophers are either of Being, or of Becoming, I suggest.
| 229 | The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become [Plato] |
| 9862 | To become rational, philosophers must rise from becoming into being [Plato] |
| 20364 | The apprehensions of reason remain unchanging, but reasonless sensation shows mere becoming [Plato] |
| 324 | Before the existence of the world there must have been being, space and becoming [Plato] |
| 5645 | The dialectical opposition of being and nothing is resolved in passing to the concept of becoming [Hegel, by Scruton] |
| 22076 | Being is only perceptible to itself as becoming [Schelling] |
| 7079 | Nietzsche resists nihilism through new values, for a world of becoming, without worship [Nietzsche, by Critchley] |
| 20360 | We Germans value becoming and development more highly than mere being of what 'is' [Nietzsche] |
| 20359 | The nature of being, of things, is much easier to understand than is becoming [Nietzsche] |
| 21846 | Bergson was a rallying point, because he emphasised becomings and multiplicities [Bergson, by Deleuze] |
| 21899 | There is no being beyond becoming [Deleuze] |