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Why View all Time from the Perspective of Time's End?

A Bergsonian Attack on Bataillean Transience

David Johnson

willmerjohnson{at}9hillsidecottage.freeserve.co.uk

This work sets out to attack Bataille's assumption that life is essentially transient. Using Bergson's anti-teleological thought experiments, I hope to reveal the ludicrous paradoxes involved in seeing the essence of time in time's end. With Bergson, I demand that we consider time to be the whole of its flow. I insist that Bataille overestimates the importance that death has for living beings, and I affirm instead the intensity of lived time and ongoing experiences.

Key Words: duration • existentialism • postmodernism • transience

Time & Society, Vol. 12, No. 2-3, 209-224 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X030122003
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