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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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
philosophical work
author Henri Bergson NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin France
critiques finalistic explanations of life
mechanistic explanations of life
field history of ideas
philosophy
philosophy of science
firstPublisher Félix Alcan NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
influenced Alfred North Whitehead NERFINISHED
French philosophy in the 20th century
Gilles Deleuze NERFINISHED
William James NERFINISHED
process philosophy
influencedBy Charles Darwin
French spiritualism
Herbert Spencer NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
proposes a creative, open-ended view of life
a non-mechanistic account of evolution
publicationDate 1907
relatedWork Matter and Memory NERFINISHED
Time and Free Will NERFINISHED
translatedTitle Creative Evolution NERFINISHED

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élan vital (vital impetus) developedInWork L’Évolution créatrice
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Creative Evolution originalTitle L’Évolution créatrice
this entity surface form: L'Évolution créatrice