The Birth of the Clinic and as late as 1984 in an essay called "Life: Experience and Science/⁴ Derrida and Foucault are able to subordinate Bergson's thought to phenomenology not only because phenomenology virtually dominated twentieth-century thinking. They can do this also because Bergsonism seems to be conceptually similar to phenomenology. Bergsonism is an intuitionism, and Bergson's central concept of "the duration' (la durée) looks to be equivalent to Husserl's concept of Erlebnis (lived-experience). In 1965 however, Deleuze asserted that Bergson holds a unique position — different from Husserl and even from Heidegger — in the Western philosophical tradition.⁵ This assertion distinguishes Deleuze from Derrida and Foucault. Indeed, Deleuze might be Bergson's Heidegger. In What is Philosophy? for instance — a text co-authored with Guattari — Deleuze says that Bergson is the only philosopher who was mature enough for the inspiration Spinoza gives us." /> Intuition and duration - Lawlor Leonard | sdvig press