{"product_id":"creative-evolution","title":"Creative Evolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in French in 1907, Henri Bergson’s \u003ci\u003eL’évolution créatrice\u003c\/i\u003e is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This outstanding new translation, the first for over a hundred years, brings one of Bergson’s most important and ambitious works to a new generation of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sympathetic though critical reader of Darwin, Bergson argues in \u003cem\u003eCreative Evolution \u003c\/em\u003eagainst a mechanistic, reductionist view of evolution. For Bergson, all life emerges from a creative, shared impulse, which he famously terms \u003ci\u003eélan vital \u003c\/i\u003eand which passes like a current through different organisms and generations over time\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eWhilst this impulse remains as forms of life diverge and multiply, human life is characterized by a distinctive form of consciousness or intellect. Yet as Bergson brilliantly shows, the intellect’s fragmentary and action- oriented nature, which he likens to the cinematograph, means it alone cannot grasp nature’s creativity and invention over time. A major task of \u003ci\u003eCreative Evolution \u003c\/i\u003eis to reconcile these two elements. For Bergson, the answer famously lies in intuition, which brings instinct and intellect together and takes us “into the very interior of life.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work of great rigour and imaginative richness that contributed to Bergson winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927, \u003ci\u003eCreative Evolution \u003c\/i\u003eplayed an important and controversial role in the trajectory of twentieth-century philosophy and continues to create significant discussion and debate. The philosopher and psychologist William James, who admired Bergson’s work, was writing an introduction to the first English translation of the book before his death in 1910.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new translation includes a foreword by Elizabeth Grosz and a helpful translator’s introduction by Donald Landes. Also translated for the first time are additional notes, articles, reviews and letters on the reception of \u003ci\u003eCreative Evolution \u003c\/i\u003ein biology, mathematics, and theology. This edition includes fascinating commentaries by philosophers Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges Canguilhem, and Gilles Deleuze.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57196431180158,"sku":"NW9781032319216","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781032319216.jpg?v=1778539891","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/creative-evolution","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}