Time and Temporality: M. Heidegger`s Interpretation versus H. Bergson's Intuition

In: Hrani: naukovo-teoretyčnyj alʹmanach, Band 24, Heft 6, S. 50-59

Abstract

The issue of the postmodern conceptualization of temporality is realized in a number of different fields of science and scientific schools. At the same time the relationship between discourse of temporality as theory and discursive practices of temporal modes is widely represented both in "high" and popular culture. As a result, classical concepts and traditional notions have been abandoned with the consequent predominance of plurality of meanings and variability of senses, which opens theoretical space for examining time and temporality both in modernity and postmodernity.
The aim of theorizing temporality in this article is presented as conceptual reconstruction of temporality in Heidegger`s and Bergson`s ideas who, while working approximately at the same period, addressed temporality from different standpoints; however, both laid the foundation for the postmodern conceptual apparatus of researching temporality. The attempts of analyzing temporality also include their most influential approaches to the interaction of "interpretation" and "intuition" in the post-paradigmatic "drift" under the "postmodern conditions". The methods of the analysis are stipulated by the interdisciplinary character of the research, which demands complex approaches and systematic investigation with the bias on phenomenological, hermeneutic and post-structural methods.
The scientific novelty of the research lies in the reconstruction of the notion and models of temporality in Heidegger`s and Bergson`s conceptions with the accent on the "volumetrical" reflections of both scientists, which include the dialogue relations in their creating meanings and concept, the dialogism (M. Bakhtin) in painting the polyphonic picture of the world. At present, temporality is often used both as a flexible notion and a kind of epiphenomenon of time, occupying mid-positions between the absolute time and the relative time. Heidegger accentuates the notional character of time, however using the term "phenomenon" in some cases, as for "Bergsonism" duration is presented as a notion in its conceptual development (Deleuze). According to Heidegger, all philosophic propositions are temporal ones; still he obviously could not have introduced his "finite temporalization" without Bergson`s claim of the ontological priority of duration. Though in the postmodern theory it is accepted that the unprecedented stress on temporality is due to Heidegger, the recognition should go back to Bergson for having transformed the classical modes of time and temporality and traditional approaches to their conceptualization.