Creative Evolution

Description:

Translated by Arthur Mitchell. 7th impression (first published 1911).

Henri Bergson (1859–1941) was one of the most famous and influential French philosophers of the late 19th century-early 20th century. This book proposed a version of orthogenesis in place of Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by the élan vital, a "vital impetus" that can also be understood as humanity's natural creative impulse. The book was very popular in the early decades of the twentieth century and was reprinted a number of times.

Condition

8vo, orig. cloth. Occasional marginal pencil. Withdrawn from an institutional library - University Museum, Oxford, W.J. Arkell Collection. Also with book-plate of Charles Kenrick Philips.