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The most famous and influential work of distinguished French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941), Creative Evolution features the fullest expression of the philosopher's ideas about the problem of existence, propounding a theory of evolution completely distinct from these of... Read Full Overview

The history of the evolution of life, incomplete as it yet is, already reveals to us how the intellect has been formed, by an uninterrupted progress, along a line which ascends through the vertebrate series up to man. It shows us in the faculty of understanding an appendage of... Read Full Overview

This outstanding new translation, the first for over a hundred years, brings one of Bergson's most important and ambitious works to a new generation of readers.

Creative Evolution

By Henri Bergson

Translated by Arthur Mitchell

The history of the evolution of life, incomplete as it yet is, already reveals to us how the intellect has been formed, by an uninterrupted progress, along a line which ascends through... Read Full Overview

La evoluci n creadora: la distinci n entre lo org nico y lo inorg nico. El repaso de las teor as evolutivas y su proposici n. La conciencia se impone a la materia, la duraci n como trazo de uni n. En este libro Bergson hace acopio de algunas de las ideas m s importantes en torno... Read Full Overview

First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergson's L'?volution cr?atrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This outstanding new translation, the first for over a hundred years, brings... Read Full Overview

Creative Evolution was published in 1907, and translated into English in 1911. In it, Henri Bergson proposes a version of orthogenesis in place of Charles Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by an lan vital, a "vital impetus," that can... Read Full Overview

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Bergson d bat de l'explication finaliste et de l'explication m caniste de l' volution, respectivement d fendues par la m taphysique traditionnelle (h rit e de Leibniz et, avant lui, d'Aristote et mettant l'accent sur les causes finales, ou buts) et par la science moderne (h rit... Read Full Overview

"L'Evolution cr?atrice" par Henri Bergson. Henri Bergson ?tait un philosophe fran?ais, prix Nobel de litt?rature (1859-1941).

Creative Evolution, originally published in 1911 by Henry Holt and Company, is the work which catapulted Bergson from obscurity into world-wide fame. A study of the philosophical implications of biological evolutionary theory, the impact of this book reached far beyond... Read Full Overview

Henri Bergson was a French-Jewish philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, whose third major work, "Creative Evolution", provided an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution. First published in French in 1907 and translated into English in 1911,... Read Full Overview

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 lan vital, a "vital impetus" that can... Read Full Overview

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was a French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, whose third major work, "Creative Evolution", provided an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution. The book focuses on four key steps: that there must be a vital impulse... Read Full Overview

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is one of the truly great philosophers of the modernist period, and there is currently a major renaissance of interest in his unduly neglected texts and ideas amongst philosophers, literary theorists, and social theorists. Creative Evolution (1907) is... Read Full Overview