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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| L'Évolution créatrice | 1 |
| L’Évolution créatrice canonical | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| author | Henri Bergson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| critiques |
finalistic explanations of life
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mechanistic explanations of life ⓘ |
| field |
history of ideas
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philosophy ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | Félix Alcan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
metaphysics
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philosophy of biology ⓘ philosophy of life ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
creative evolution
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duration (durée) ⓘ intuition ⓘ opposition between intellect and intuition ⓘ élan vital ⓘ |
| hasPart |
chapters
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introduction ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | Creative Evolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Alfred North Whitehead
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French philosophy in the 20th century ⓘ Gilles Deleuze NERFINISHED ⓘ William James NERFINISHED ⓘ process philosophy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Charles Darwin
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French spiritualism ⓘ Herbert Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
creativity
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critique of finalism ⓘ critique of mechanism ⓘ evolution ⓘ nature of life ⓘ time and duration ⓘ élan vital ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
evolution as a creative process
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life as continuous creation of unforeseeable novelty ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | Henri Bergson’s major philosophical works ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
process philosophy
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vitalism ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| proposes |
a creative, open-ended view of life
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a non-mechanistic account of evolution ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1907 ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Matter and Memory
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Time and Free Will NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| translatedTitle | Creative Evolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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subject surface form:
élan vital
this entity surface form:
L'Évolution créatrice