Creative Evolution (book)

Creative Evolution (

. The book was very popular in the early decades of the twentieth century.

The book also developed concepts of time (offered in Bergson's earlier work) which significantly influenced

.

According to the translator's note, Harvard philosopher William James intended to write the introduction to the book's English translation, but died in 1910 prior to the completion of the English edition in 1911.

Editions

• Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (1911) tr. Arthur Mitchell, Henry Holt and Company
• 1944, Modern Library, Random House
• 1998, Dover Publications,
  ISBN 0-486-40036-0
• 2005, Cosimo Classics,
  ISBN 0-7607-6548-0

See also

• Emergent evolution
• Homo faber

External links

• Discussion of Creative Evolution (from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).
• Creative Evolution at the Wayback Machine (archived May 16, 2006) 1911 edition online.
• Bergson, Henri, Creative Evolution. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1911, a digitized copy at the Internet Archive.
• Evolution Creatrice public domain audiobook at LibriVox