Creative Evolution (book)
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| Author | Henri Bergson |
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| Translator | Arthur Mitchell |
| Language | French |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
Publication date | 1907 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1911 |
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Creative Evolution (Template:Langx) is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation appeared in 1911. The book proposed a version of orthogenesis in place of Darwin's mechanism of natural selection, suggesting that evolution is motivated by the Script error: No such module "Lang"., 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.
The book also developed concepts of time (offered in Bergson's earlier work) which significantly influenced modernist writers and thinkers such as Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann. 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 intuition.
According to the translator's note, Harvard philosopher William James intended to write the introduction to the book's English translation, but died in 1910 prior to the completion of the English edition in 1911.
Editions
- Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (1911) tr. Arthur Mitchell, Henry Holt and Company
- 1944, Modern Library, Random House
- 1998, Dover Publications, Template:ISBN
- 2005, Cosimo Classics, Template:ISBN
See also
External links
- Discussion of Creative Evolution (from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).
- Script error: No such module "webarchive". 1911 edition online.
- Bergson, Henri, Creative Evolution. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1911, a digitized copy at the Internet Archive.
Evolution Creatrice public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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