Title: L'Évolution créatrice
First published: 1928
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.
Subjects: Evolution, Life, Metaphysics, Life (Biology), Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Evolution, Science, Évolution, Religious aspects of Science, Métaphysique, Vie, Philosophy, Biological Evolution, Philosophische Anthropologie, Evolutie, French Philosophy, Nature, Nonfiction, Life.00, Życie, Metafizyka, Ewolucja, Sheng ming zhe xue, PHILOSOPHY / General
Places: fa guo
Time periods: 20th century, xian dai