L'Évolution créatrice

Creative Evolution

Author

Henri Bergson

Language

French

Year

1907

Country

France

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

modern europe

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Creative Evolution is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation appeared in 1911. The book proposed a version of orthogenesis in place of Darwin's mechanism of natural selection, 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.