https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=3317 Index terms fr 0 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=4609 In this paper, I will argue with Ernst Cassirer that anticipation plays an essential part in the constitution of time, as seen from a transcendental perspective. Time is, as any transcendental concept, regarded as basically relational and subjective and only in a derivative way objective and indifferent to us. This entails that memory is prior to history, and that anticipation is prior to prediction. In this paper, I will give some examples in order to argue for this point. Furthernore, I will also argue, again with Cassirer and contra Henri Bergson, that time should be seen as a functional unity, and not as a collection of three different things-in-themselves (past, present and future). Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:18:27 +0200 Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:18:34 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=4609 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=3315 In his book Creative Evolution, Bergson characterizes the project of the élan vital as that of accumulating (solar) energy and dispensing it in an act of singular creativity. The living organism can thus be viewed as the material process that breaches the material order. In this way, the virtual becomes operative in the real through the anticipative procedures of the organism, giving rise to novelty. A similar idea is entertained by Kant in the Critique of the Power of Judgment, where he links the idea of the inexplicability of the organism with that of a breach in the immanent order without appealing to anything beyond mateial forces. In this paper, an attempt is made at clarifying the precise way in which the organism is recalcitrant to traditional notions of explication by examining and relating the views of Kant and Bergson on the subject. Both thinkers struggle to clarify the relation between organization on the one hand and temporality on the other. I suggest that their casting talk of organization in terms of retrograde temporality is an attempt to come to terms indirectly with the challenge the organism poses to any traditional model of temporality. Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:47:45 +0200 Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:47:52 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=3315