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    Creative Evolution

    By Henri Bergson

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    Creative Evolution is a book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. 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 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateMar 20, 2014
    ISBN9781300353027
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      Radically pioneering & influential in its early 20th Century day, & now attracting fresh interest, this philosophical masterwork is a map of life itself - of its interlocking, continuously forward-thrusting complexity.