Creative Evolution (Henri Bergson Centennial Series)

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.--jacket. Introduction -- Editions And Translations Of Bergson Used -- Further Reading -- Creative Evolution -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- The Evolution Of Life -- The Divergenet Directions Of The Evolution Of Life : Torpor, Intelligence, Instinct -- On The Meaning Of Life - The Order Of Nature And The Form Of Intelligence -- The Cinematographical Mechanism Of Thought And The Mechanistic Illusion : A Glance At The History Of Systems : Real Becoming And False Evolutionism -- Biographical Material -- Biographical Synopses. By Henri Bergson ; Translated By Arthur Mitchell ; Edited By Keith Ansell Pearson, Michael Kolkman, Michael Vaughan ; With An Introduction By Keith Ansell Pearson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 237-240) And Index.