Creative Evolution"Creative Evolution (1907) is the text that made Bergson world-famous. In this work, Bergson takes the special theory of duration developed in the philosophy of mind in Time and Free Will and Matter and Memory, and generalizes it into a cosmology of life and matter in the field of evolution, of change in biological life. Tackling the concepts of evolution current at the time, Bergson shows how both mechanistic (Neo-Darwinian) and finalist (Neo-Lamarckian) theories of evolution fail to account for the diverse creativity of nature, especially speciation."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
THE EVOLUTION OF LIFEMECHANISM AND TELEOLOGY | 1 |
THE DIVERGENT DIRECTIONS OF THE EVOLUTION | 80 |
ON THE MEANING OF LIFETHE ORDER OF NATURE | 153 |
THE CINEMATOGRAPHICAL MECHANISM OF THOUGHT | 224 |
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