Contributions

  • Mitchell, Arthur, 1872-, - Contributor

Publication

1911 - Macmillan, London

Language

English

Word Count

106,250 words, Guess

Page Count

425 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCB2430 B4 E72 1911
  • DDC110 B

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.

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  • Creative evolution.: Authorized translation by Arthur Mitchell.Macmillan1911-01-01
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