indecision so charged with promise : Bergsonian images of life and childhood

Costa Carvalho, Magda

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Costa Carvalho, Magda

Abstract(s)

In a passage in his Évolution Créatrice, Bergson reclaims the image of the child to argue that living nature works through divergent tendencies. Although Bergson’s work doesn’t focus specifically on education, it does contain references that, on the one hand, reclaim the creative and creating feature of childhood, while on the other hand accentuating the childlike nature of élan vital’s movements. These references are part of Bergson’s repertoire of imagery and demonstrate how his thought evokes uneven readings. The invitation to cross the image of life as childhood with that of childhood as life ultimately evokes a rethinking of what inhabits us as constitutively other: the child we were and the life we are. And it is through the notion of image – as a form of dynamic contact with reality – that we will look for some answers for Bergson’s suggestion that education should promote a childlike (enfantin) knowledge.

Keywords

Henri Bergson Images Life Childhood

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/6327

Citation

Costa Carvalho, Magda (2022). "Indecision so charged with promise: Bergsonian images of life and childhood". In Franz Riﬀert and Vesselin Petrov (eds.). Education and Learning in a World of Accelerated Knowledge Growth, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar Publishing, pp. 73-83.