Dialectic of DurationThis work addresses the nature of time, taking issue specifically with Henri Bergson's notion of duration, or lived time. For Bachelard, the experience of lived time was fractured. He argues that there is no one underlying thread - that time is multiple and discrete. |
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Foreword | 17 |
Relaxation and nothingness | 23 |
The psychology of temporal phenomena | 49 |
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