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Plan des images et plan des concepts chez Bergson. Fonctions de la
durée
PODOROGA, Yulia
PODOROGA, Yulia. Plan des images et plan des concepts chez Bergson. Fonctions de la
durée. In: Worms, F. Annales bergsoniennes, V. Paris : PUF, 2012. p. 437-456
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4 Nous reprenons ici la terminologie de Lydie Adolphe qui propose d’attribuer à la première série d’images une
fonction « d’expressivité », une fonction rhétorique ou communicationnelle, en assignant à l’autre type d’images
une fonction de « focalisation » ou de visée. (Voir Lydie Adolphe, La dialectique des images chez Bergson,
PUF, Paris, 1951)
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