Creative Evolution

Creative Evolution Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution provides an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by an elan vital, a "e;vital impetus"e; that can also be understood as humanity's natural creative impulse. The book was very popular in the early decades of the twentieth century, before the Neodarwinian synthesis was developed.[citation needed] The book also develops concepts of time (offered in Bergson's earlier work) which significantly influenced modernist writers and thinkers such as Marcel Proust. For example, Bergson's term "e;duration"e; refers to a more individual, subjective experience of time, as opposed to mathematical, objectively measurable "e;clock time."e; In Creative Evolution, Bergson suggests that the experience of time as "e;duration"e; can best be understood through creative intuition, not through intellect.