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Creative Evolution

by Henri Bergson
Arthur Mitchell
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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 "élan 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.

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Publisher: Duke Classics

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  • Release date: February 20, 2012

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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 "élan 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.

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Nature Philosophy Science Nonfiction
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    Publisher:
    Duke Classics

    Kindle Book
    Release date: February 20, 2012

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    ISBN: 9781620112076
    Release date: February 20, 2012

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    ISBN: 9781620112076
    File size: 410 KB
    Release date: February 20, 2012

    Open EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781620112076
    File size: 406 KB
    Release date: February 20, 2012

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