Single Idea 21846

[catalogued under 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming]

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 Reference

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.