Creative Evolution

2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-51721-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 271 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

Reihe: Henri Bergson Centennial Series

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is one of the truly great philosophers of the modernist period, and there is currently a major renaissance of interest in his unduly neglected texts and ideas amongst philosophers, literary theorists, and social theorists. Creative Evolution (1907) is the text that made Bergson world-famous in his own lifetime; in it Bergson responds to the challenge presented to our habits of thought by modern evolutionary theory, and attempts to show that the theory of knowledge must have its basis in a theory of life.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bergson, H.

Kolkman, M.

Ansell-Pearson, K.

Vaughan, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Preface Introduction; K.Ansell Pearson Editions and translations of Bergson used Further Reading CREATIVE EVOLUTION; H. Bergson Translator's Note; A.Mitchell The Evolution of Life - Mechanism and Teleology The Divergent Directions of the Evolution of Life. Torpor, Intelligence, Instinct On the Meaning of Life - The Order of Nature and the Form of Intelligence The Cinematographical Mechanism of Thought and the Mechanistic Illusion - A Glance at the History of Systems - Real Becoming and False Evolution
Bibliographical Material
Biographical Synopses
Glossary of Biological Terms
Index

Über Autor(innen)

HENRI BERGSON (1859-1941) is one of the truly great philosophers of the modernist period, and there is currently a major renaissance of interest in his unduly neglected texts and ideas amongst philosophers, literary theorists, and social theorists.

KEITH ANSELL PEARSON is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of (Routledge, 1999), (Routledge, 2001), (CUP, 1994). He is the co-editor of a forthcoming 'Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche' (Stanford) and editor of the 1890-1930 volume of Acumen's forthcoming 7-volume series in the history of Continental Philosophy.

MICHAEL KOLKMAN and MICHAEL VAUGHAN are Graduate Students at the University of Warwick, UK.