Description
Creative Evolution is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation appeared in 1911. The book provides an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by an élan vital, a "vital impetus" that can also be understood as humanity's natural creative impulse. The book was very popular in the early decades of the twentieth century, before the Neodarwinian synthesis was developed.
The book also develops concepts of time (offered in Bergson's earlier work) which significantly influenced modernist writers and thinkers such as Marcel Proust. For example, Bergson's term "duration" refers to a more individual, subjective experience of time, as opposed to mathematical, objectively measurable "clock time." In Creative Evolution, Bergson suggests that the experience of time as "duration" can best be understood through creative intuition, not through intellect.
Author: Henri Bergson
Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.com
Published: 01/07/2023
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d
ISBN13: 9781644399576
ISBN10: 1644399571
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | General
- Science | Life Sciences | Evolution
- Science | Space Science | Cosmology