Philosophy · 1907
L'Évolution créatrice
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- First published
- 1907
- This copy printed
- 1907
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper wrappers
- Condition
- Good — Honest wear and some foxing, sound and complete.
- Pages
- 403
About this work
French philosopher Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution was published in 1907 and translated into English in 1911. Very popular at the time, it gives an alternate mechanism for evolution - that it is motivated by an "elan vital" a vital impetus, also graspable as our natural creative urge. It also looks at Bergson's conception of time, a subjective "duration" (rather than the quantifiable time of a clock) that is best understood not through the intellect but through our creative intuition, an idea that influenced Marcel Proust and other modernist thinkers.
