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Bergson defines time as “our self which endures” (Bergson 24). However, time can be defined as a set of events that can be chronologically recorded or identified in the sequence of past, present, or future.
The concept of time flux, as indicated by Bergson, is a phenomenon where time is perceived as a progression of “states,” each of which reveals that which comes after it and “contains that which precedes it” (Bergson 24). Bergson adds that when this happens it is said to create various “states” when an individual already “passed them and turn back to observe their track” (Bergson 24).
An example of past into present, as mentioned by Bergson, is a phenomenon where time “[i]nner duration” is the perpetual life of a “memory which prolongs the past into the present,”” or revealing by its perpetual “change of quality” the more burdensome the “load we drag behind us” as we age (Bergson 40).
Bergson explains that the concept of multiplicity and duration is when “duration” is perceived as a “multiplicity” of “moments” connected “to each other by a unity” which runs “through them like a thread” then despite the “chosen duration” being short these “moments” are “unlimited in number” (Bergson 47).
Bergson mentions that the concept of self as multiple by stating that the “self is multiple” but it is a “multiplicity” that has “nothing in common with any other multiplicity” (Bergson 37).
Time according to James is “[c]onsciousness” that is various objects and elements “teeming” with life and expression (James 21).
When considering the concept of the time gap in light of the time flux, past into experience, and no two moments can be experienced twice one should consider the concept to a various “thoughts” in a particular location where “some of which cohere mutually” while others do not (James 22). In other words, the different manifestations of time (past, present, and future) can be both separate and together.
In reading about Time from the writings from Bergson and James, it can be acknowledged that Bergson deals with Time from a metaphysical perspective while James deals with the topic of Time from a psychological point of view.
Modernism can be defined as an artistic movement that has the intention to move away from traditional forms of artistic expression. It is difficult to date this artistic movement because it encompasses several different minor artistic movements or styles in one. However, many believe that it originated from the late 19th centuries to the early 20th centuries. Therefore, it started after the start of the Industrial Age and ended just after the Victorian Period.
Works Cited
Bergson, Henri, and T. E. Hulme. An Introduction to Metaphysics. New York: Putnam's, 1912. Print.
McDonald, Milo Francis. Psychological Foundations. N.p.: Roosevelt Book, 1933. Print.
