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Bergson and the search for lost time

Having as point of reference the works of Henri Bergson and, from these, the relationship of the identity between freedom and creation, free action and creative action, the purpose of this paper is to bring to light some questions about the function of method to a philosophy which faces the art, the artist and the artistic activity as examples of which the knowledge of the real and of the true are possible, and for this reason, take it as paradigms of the own philosophy. In other words, it interest to give some steps to the direction of the investigations concerning what want and what can a philosophy which has a profound affinities with art and, beyond this, search to understand it in its essence, in its principles, and reveal its nature.

Bergson; freedom; creation; method; art


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