Book chapter
Bergson's Durée, Whitehead's Process, and Einstein's Relativity
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time, pp.121-130
Routledge Philosophy Companions, Routledge
2026
DOI: 10.4324/9781003495611-14
Abstract
The historical connections between Whitehead's notion of process (and extensive abstraction) and Bergson's innovative notion of durée as a rejection of the spatialization of time are taken up in this paper. They are contrasted with Russell's application of the new revolutionary mathematical ideas of Cantor and Weierstrass to form an eternalist physics of space-time as overlapping of event. It is argued that while Bergson's rejection of spatialization amounts to rejecting the view that time duration consists in the overlapping event parts, Whitehead hoped to accept event overlapping within process.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Bergson's Durée, Whitehead's Process, and Einstein's Relativity
- Creators
- Gregory Landini
- Contributors
- Nina Emery (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time, pp.121-130
- Series
- Routledge Philosophy Companions
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003495611-14
- Publisher
- Routledge; New York, NY
- Alternative title
- Bergson's Durée, Whitehead's Process, and Einstein's Relativity
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2026
- Academic Unit
- Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984958289102771
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