Il divenire e l'idea del nulla

Abstract

The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, we will give a short reading of the texts in which Bergson criticizes the idea of nothingness, in order to show that here he is trying to think Becoming without conceiving it as coming to be (from nothingness) and passing away. On the other hand, we will make a comparison between Bergson and Spinoza, in order to prove that Bergsonian argument, although it is deeply rigorous, ends up reducing Becoming to a sort of bare and therefore ineffable substance.