Abstract

This article first attempts to reframe Bergson's elaboration (in "Time and Free Will") of time as duration within his general critique of Kant. It argues that the key to Bergson's revision of the Kantian image of time is Kant's schematism, and more precisely the scheme of the category of magnitude (Grösse). Instead of being a determination of time, as Kant thought, the scheme of magnitude (the number) is a determination of space. Thus, what Kant thought to be time and the form of the inner sensibility is in fact space. Bergson will then develop the more basic image of the Innerlichkeit as duration. The second and last part of the article describes his image of duration in relation to the problem of identity and singularity, contrasting his view with that of Marcel Proust