리듬적 종합으로서의 시간 개념

Abstract

In this paper, I attempt to understand time through the concept of synthesis. Immanuel Kant considered time as a synthesis made by apprehension and reproduction, referring to time, along with space, as a transcendental form. At the same time, he pointed out that time as a pure form is a result of a synthesis of intuition and imagination working without objects. Edmund Husserl tried to understand time through a ‘transcendental consciousness’ synthesis. Henri Bergson understood the ‘durée pure’ as a qualia which is continuous to matter and considered pure time as an indivisible continuum in which heterogeneous components are mixed. Pure time indicates the synthesis of heterogeneous elements which are apprehended by a level of sense. Martin Heidegger emphasized a temporality of events which arrives by dismantling a conscious- ness, rather than by a performance of a consciousness. Time of Aion, which Gilles Deleuze suggested in developing a concept of event, also belongs to time as event-time. In this paper, I would like to propose everyday-time, which is a product of a rhythmic synthesis of corporeal elements. Anthropologists have made us see different ideas of time generated by various societies and cultures. These ideas of time were produced through rhythmic synchronization between life cycles and the cycles of surrounding environments. Many organs and cells which consist of a body, have to rhythmically synchronize with each other. Every notion of time, including simultaneity, is a product of this rhythmic synthesis. This notion has a relationship with the individualization which make heterogenous elements in a community move as one. It also make possible to insert differences into and to transform it. Event-time is the discontinuity contrary to this rhythmic time. Therefore in this paper I’d like to propose two different types of time, rhythmic time and Event-time, which make a community constitute, hold and transform.