Durée

Abstract

Durée (duration) has come, after Henri Bergson, to be synonymous with lived time, with what it is to endure and live time (in both passive and active senses). While an initial reading of Bergson might take durée to be equivalent to the internal time or flow of consciousness—or, more broadly, mind ( esprit)—and to be contrary to materiality, sociality, and space (especially if limited to Bergson’s early work),¹ this way of reading durée falters with subsequent texts ( Matière et mémoire onward) and as soon as one begins to think through the lived implications of enduring.² For not only should