Thinking in time: Henri Bergson (an interdisciplinary conference)

Guerlac, Suzanne

doi:10.1353/mln.2006.0009

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“…Such a conception of "choice" can only be a product of retrospection, since we never perceive such forking paths in the time of the movement itself. As Guerlac (2006) writes, "Bergson locates freedom … in hesitation, not in choice. Freedom happens as it happens, not as it is reconstructed after the fact" (p. 84).…”

Section: Movement/impetus/durationmentioning

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Animals’ Mobilities in Popular Fiction: Time, Duration, and Desire in Sheila Burnford’s The Incredible Journey

Howell

2024

Soc. Animals

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In Sheila Burnford’s 1961 novel The Incredible Journey, three domestic animals undertake an arduous trek through the forests of northern Ontario to be reunited with their owners and family. As an example of “homing instinct” stories, The Incredible Journey has been influential, notably as a result of the 1963 Disney film. The genre is easily dismissed as sentimentally anthropomorphic, but this paper treats Burnford’s novel as a sophisticated treatment of animals’ mobilities in terms of literary animal studies. Drawing on the philosophy of Henri Bergson, The Incredible Journey is presented as an adventure in time rather than in space, contrasting the human perspective of maps and miles with the Bergsonian concept of duration, the real experience of the passage of time, and with related themes of free will, instinct, and desire. This paper concludes that Burnford offers a less anthropocentric perspective on animals’ mobility.

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Section: Movement/impetus/durationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Animals’ Mobilities in Popular Fiction: Time, Duration, and Desire in Sheila Burnford’s The Incredible Journey

Howell

2024

Soc. Animals

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“…And one is faced with the enthymeme cited by Aristotle: "If, before acting, I had asked you the attitude in anticipation of this action, you would have granted it to me; now that I have acted, will you refuse it to me?" 14 The matter of our reasoning is, in effect, constructed in such a way so as to minimize both the destructive and creative roles of time.…”

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Time in Argument: Dissociating Values

Bolduc¹,

Frank²

2023

The Intellectual and Cultural Origins of Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca’s New Rhetoric Project

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“…Fenomenologin skiljer som bekant på den mekaniska, samhälliga tiden och den själsliga (Berg Erikson 2000, Guerlac 2006). I N ordstans köpcentrum är klockans placering i rummet central och symboliken blir nästan övertydlig.…”

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Mellanrummets poesi

Beckman¹

2023

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I min avhandling Väntan. Etnografiskt kollage kring ett mellanrum (2009) låter jag välutbildade, medelålders storstadsbor berätta om sin väntan. Ett centralt tema i undersökningen visade sig vara informanternas längtan efter tillfällen för återhämtning, sprickor i tiden i vilka de kunde hitta tillbaka till det liv och till den själsliga närvaro som de upplevde sig ha förlorat i vardagens rutinartade stress. Berättelserna som jag fick till mig uttryckte inte sällan en närmast desperat avsaknad av andningshål för vila, kreativitet och självreflektion. I min undersökning kom väntan snart att artikulera sig som en metafor för vila, för vila och autenticitet i en modern storstadstillvaro i vilken görandet och imiterandet är centralt. I den här artikeln kommer jag att försöka iscensätta mellanrummets retorik så som den ofta presenterar sig i mitt avhandlingsmaterial. Artikelns titel anspelar på den positiva och nästintill poetiska ton som används i beskrivningarna av mellanrummet och hur det upplevs - eller borde upplevas. Retoriken framstår inte sällan som ett slags mellanrummets poesi.

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Thinking in time: Henri Bergson (an interdisciplinary conference)

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Animals’ Mobilities in Popular Fiction: Time, Duration, and Desire in Sheila Burnford’s The Incredible Journey

Animals’ Mobilities in Popular Fiction: Time, Duration, and Desire in Sheila Burnford’s The Incredible Journey

Time in Argument: Dissociating Values

Mellanrummets poesi

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