A estética implícita de Henri Bergson

Abstract

Each explicit philosophy involves an implicit metaphysics within. Bergson’s philosophy of nature is implicitly a metaphysics of time, reason for which this metaphysics is indiscernible of an aesthetics, once the problem of time implicates that of creation. From a metaphysical direction which develops itself into an original philosophical conception of time, Bergson introduces perspectives through which he draws problematic lines related to creation as a whole, from profound and impersonal affective life until artistic and philosophical creation. Nevertheless, he has not written any book or book chapters about those problems specifically. Even though there are many marginal passages where he explicitly approaches the creative emotion, the process of artistic creation, the works of art and the philosophical creation, his implicit aesthetics is diluted throughout his oeuvre and presents itself including in passages where those aspects are not addressed directly. This implicit aesthetics is what we pretend to unravel in this dissertation, elaborating more nuanced conceptions of experience and reality according to Bergson’s superior empirics and its crucial discovery of virtuality; exploring the unsuspected relation between intuition and creative emotion, surrounding a singular conception of liberty; discerning the conceptual connection between duration, difference and virtuality, decisive to the seizure of the vital contents within the profound affective dynamics; and expose the intimate relationship between the impersonal affective plan and creation within the perspectives of an aesthetical vitalism; finally, approaching artistic and philosophical processes in all its phases, such as the consistence of the oeuvres once accomplished, its latent expressivity and its aesthetical impact.