Bergson and Bachelard: The Intuition of Duration or the Intuition of Instant
The author compares A. Bergson’s and G. Bachelard’s conceptions of time. Bachelard in works «The Intuition of the Instant» and «The Dialectic of Duration» rejects the Bergson’s doctrine of duration and expounds his own conception based on the concept of instant. In Bachelard’s opinion, just the instant is the distinguishing feature of time, while an idea of continuity of time does not allow to understand the essence of freedom, change, creative act.