# Creative Evolution

> Henri Bergson’s major philosophical work rethinks life, mind, time, and change through a bold critique of mechanism and a dynamic account of evolution.

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## About
Creative Evolution is Henri Bergson’s most influential attempt to understand life as movement, invention, and duration rather than as a machine assembled from fixed parts. Drawing on biology, metaphysics, and epistemology, Bergson argues that reality is better grasped through process than through static concepts. The book is demanding, but it rewards readers with a striking alternative to purely mechanistic explanations of nature and consciousness.ThemesThe work explores evolution, intuition, duration, consciousness, vitalism, creativity, and the limits of analytical thought. Bergson’s central claim is not simply that life changes, but that living reality produces novelty in ways that cannot be fully reduced to pre-given schemes.Why readers still return to itReaders return to Creative Evolution for its ambition and for the way it opens philosophical questions about freedom, life, and mind without flattening them into technical abstraction. It remains one of the key texts for anyone interested in modern continental philosophy and the history of ideas.Further contextPublished in French in 1907 and widely debated across philosophy, literature, and science, the book helped make Bergson an international intellectual force in the early twentieth century.

## Specifications
- author: Henri Bergson
- publisher: DotBooks
- imprint: DotBooks
- synopsis: Henri Bergson’s major philosophical work rethinks life, mind, time, and change through a bold critique of mechanism and a dynamic account of evolution.
- language: en
- binding: Perfect Bound
- pages: 194
- format: paperback
- openlibrary: OL37516703W