N = 1. L'empirismo integrale di Gentile e Bergson

There was no real dialogue between Bergson and Gentile. The French philosopher ignores the Italian. The Italian philosopher reads some works of Bergson but he considers Bergson as a psychologist or a neurologist rather than a true philosopher. According to Gentile, Bergson was the author of a “modest philosophy”. My argument is that the two philosophers share an identical speculative intention, despite the indisputable difference of the "external and historical" frame of the two philosophies. Both develop a philosophy of absolute immanence. which, in the twentieth century, was developed by a number of authors, very different from each other: from pragmatism to Whitehead's philosophy of organism, from Ruyer's philosophy of biology to the simondonian reflection on process of individuation, up to the deleuzian ontology of immanence. I call this line of thinking "minor" to distinguish it from the “major” in continental thought, which was phenomenological and existential. The purpose of this philosophy is to create a new model of intelligibility of becoming appropriate to the "complexity" of the real discovered by science.