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Creative Evolution

by Henri Bergson & Arthur Mitchell (Translator)

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  • 20th century
  • Language: English
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"Creative Evolution" by Henri Bergson is a philosophical work published in 1907. The book challenges Darwin's theory of natural selection, proposing instead that evolution is driven by élan vital—a vital creative impulse within life itself. Bergson explores concepts of subjective time and "duration," suggesting these can only be grasped through intuition rather than rational analysis. His ideas profoundly influenced modernist writers and thinkers, making the book enormously popular in the early twentieth century. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics.

  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page and project-gutenberg matched “Metaphysics” and “metaphysics”. Retained metadata contains “Metaphysics” in the subject metadata.

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Editions

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London: Macmillan and Co., 1922

1922———Public digitized item

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2008-08-01Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Contributing institution: Kelly - University of Toronto
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
  • Scanner: ias6
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): B2430 .B4 E72
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: London: Macmillan and Co., 1922
  • Translators: Mitchell, Arthur
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