Dickens, Bergson & Time Travel: with Céleste Callen

Charles Dickens: A Brain on Fire! 🔥

What does it mean to experience time? Is it a linear journey from past to present, or is it a complex and intricate web of memories, feelings, and experiences?
Our guest today is the inimitable Céleste Callen, from The University of Edinburgh, who delves into her thesis that explores subjective temporal experience in Dickens’ fiction, through the lens of Henri Bergson’s philosophy of time.
This episode explores Bergson's seminal works: Time and Free Will & Matter and Memory and Dickens' Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Haunted Man and his first person narratives David Copperfield & Great Expectations ...
Readings in this episode are from the wonderful Sophie Reynolds and Peter Bray

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Chapters

1. Exploring Dickens' Fiction Through Berkson's Philosophy (00:00:00)

2. Exploring Time and Subjectivity (00:08:31)

3. Time and Free Will's Impact (00:17:48)

4. "The Chimes" and Society's Themes (00:26:30)

5. Memory and Nostalgia in Charles Dickens (00:33:34)

6. Dickens' Concepts of Time and Memory (00:43:07)

7. The Metaphysics of Time and Language (00:52:33)

8. Berkson's Philosophy and Neuroscience of Time (01:03:11)