L’Évolution créatrice

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L’Évolution créatrice is a 1907 philosophical work by Henri Bergson that explores the nature of life, creativity, and evolution through a critique of mechanistic and finalistic explanations.

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instanceOf book
philosophical work
author Henri Bergson
countryOfOrigin France
critiques finalistic explanations of life
mechanistic explanations of life
field history of ideas
philosophy
philosophy of science
firstPublisher Félix Alcan
genre metaphysics
philosophy of biology
philosophy of life
hasKeyConcept creative evolution
duration (durée)
intuition
opposition between intellect and intuition
élan vital
hasPart chapters
introduction
hasTranslation Creative Evolution
influenced Alfred North Whitehead
French philosophy in the 20th century
Gilles Deleuze
William James
process philosophy
influencedBy Charles Darwin
French spiritualism
Herbert Spencer
mainSubject creativity
critique of finalism
critique of mechanism
evolution
nature of life
time and duration
élan vital
notableIdea evolution as a creative process
life as continuous creation of unforeseeable novelty
originalLanguage French
partOf Henri Bergson’s major philosophical works
philosophicalSchool process philosophy
vitalism
placeOfPublication Paris
proposes a creative, open-ended view of life
a non-mechanistic account of evolution
publicationDate 1907
relatedWork Matter and Memory
Time and Free Will
translatedTitle Creative Evolution

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élan vital developedInWork L’Évolution créatrice
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Creative Evolution originalTitle L'Évolution créatrice
linked to: L’Évolution créatrice
Les Deux Sources de la morale et de la religion relatedWork L'Évolution créatrice
linked to: L’Évolution créatrice