L'Évolution créatrice

By CHAILLAND, Henri Bergson, Éditions CdBF

Subjects: Philosophische Anthropologie, Religious aspects, Nonfiction, Évolution, Science, Nature, Vie, Sheng ming zhe xue, Evolution, Ewolucja, Religious aspects of Science, Life, Metafizyka, Life.00, PHILOSOPHY / General, Metaphysics, Métaphysique, French Philosophy, Evolutie, Biological Evolution, Religious aspects of Evolution, Życie, Life (Biology), Philosophy

Description: 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.