From lived time to lived space. Minkowski’s (1885-1972) early contribution to Phenomenology

	Prof. Jean-Claude Gens, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Burgundy, France; Co-director, Center of Phenomenological Hermeneutics, University of Paris IV, France
	4:30 – 6:30 pm
	Room 220, Fung King Hey Building

Abstract: Lived Time, which is the most famous book of Minkowski, is one of Merleau-Ponty’s references in his Phenomenology of Perception. Minkowski is mainly inspired by Husserl and Bergson. If Bergson opposed lived time or duration to spatiality, Minkowski opens a new horizon, mainly because he rejects the reduction of spatiality to extension or extensivness and shows that Bergson’s opposition relies on a false conception of space. The originality of his point of view is also related to his experience as a psychiatrist.