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Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson · Mysticism · 1907
Translated by Arthur Mitchell (1911)
50 chapters
Bergson's central work — the universe seen as a single sustained creative becoming, the élan vital flowing through all life, and the limits of mechanistic and finalistic thinking when it tries to grasp this continuous welling-up of novelty.
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Contents
- 1I · Of Duration in General
- 2I · Unorganized Bodies and Abstract Time
- 3I · Organized Bodies and Real Duration
- 4I · Of Transformism
- 5I · Mechanism and the Whole of Life
- 6I · Radical Finalism
- 7I · Beyond Mechanism and Finalism
- 8I · The Quest of a Criterion
- 9I · The Eye: Darwin and De Vries
- 10I · Identical Organs by Different Means
- 11I · Neo-Lamarckism and Orthogenesis
- 12I · The Vital Impetus
- 13I · Footnotes
- 14II · The Evolutionary Process and Adaptation
- 15II · The Animal and the Plant
- 16II · Torpor, Intelligence, and Instinct
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