UNA PARADOSSALE COINCIDENZA. INTERROGANDO IL BERGSON DI MATIERE ET MEMOIRE

Giuseppina Sgueglia e Marco Valerio Di Schiena

If Maimon’s notion of “differential”, meant as the distance between an only problematic chain of – apriori as well as ex-post – concepts and an infinite intellect, identifies mere analyticity as an impossible philosophical major threat, obscuring even the foundations for the only possible metaphysics of pure reason, continuity on the other hand, seen at play by Maimon himself as one indefinitely approaches an impossible “analytical whole”, is by Bergson formulated in an entirely new and different fashion than the usual, whereby sheer “subjective” attitudes, now retrieved or in fact brought to light by memory seen as a punctual phenomenon, owe to the phenomenon (or set of phenomena) known as matter, in turn seen as a set of “images”, or set of representations that arise at the crossroads between what Bergson envisages as only artificially separated entities, namely understanding and sensitivity, as it is also in plain sight as one reads authors from the Marburg Neo-Kantian School, and quite especially such thinkers as Natorp and Cohen.