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Creative Evolution de Henri Bergson

Creative Evolution

Autor Henri Bergson Traducere de Arthur Mitchell
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Această ediție a lucrării Creative Evolution aduce în prim-plan nu doar textul clasic al lui Henri Bergson, ci și un aparat critic extins care lipsește din edițiile standard. Merită menționat că volumul este îmbogățit cu traduceri noi și o secțiune documentară impresionantă, care include corespondența autorului cu William James și critici contemporane din domenii variate, de la biologie la teologie. Putem afirma că această versiune transformă un tratat de metafizică într-un dialog viu despre istoria ideilor.

Premisa centrală a lui Bergson contestă viziunea pur mecanicistă asupra vieții, propunând în schimb celebrul „élan vital”. Credem că relevanța acestei ediții constă în modul în care clarifică distincția dintre inteligență — orientată spre manipularea solidelor și a materiei inerte — și intuiție, singura capabilă să perceapă „durata” reală. Cartea extinde cadrul propus de Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence prin oferirea surselor primare care au stat la baza teoriilor complexității de mai târziu. În contextul operei sale, dacă în Laughter autorul analiza mecanicul aplicat viului, aici el dezvoltă o cosmologie completă a creativității.

Structura este riguros organizată în patru mari capitole care urmăresc progresia de la evoluția biologică la mecanismul cinematografic al gândirii. Finalul cărții, dedicat recepției critice, oferă un context istoric esențial, arătând cum ideile sale au interacționat cu biologia lui Le Dantec sau matematica lui Borel. Este o resursă academică ce recuperează vocea lui Bergson pentru secolul XXI, într-un format care facilitează atât studiul comparativ, cât și înțelegerea impactului său asupra modernismului.

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ISBN-13: 9781522954583
ISBN-10: 1522954589
Pagini: 206
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Recomandăm această ediție oricărui cititor interesat de filosofia procesului și de rădăcinile modernismului literar. Prin parcurgerea acestui text, câștigați o perspectivă unică asupra timpului și a evoluției, dincolo de limitele științei convenționale. Este un instrument esențial pentru studenții la filozofie, oferind o perspectivă istorică completă asupra modului în care intuiția bergsoniană a influențat gândirea contemporană.

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Henri-Louis Bergson (1859–1941) a fost unul dintre cei mai influenți filosofi francezi ai secolului XX, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în 1927. Opera sa se distinge prin prioritizarea experienței imediate și a intuiției în fața raționalismului abstract. Bergson a redefinit concepte precum timpul și memoria, influențând profund scriitori ca Marcel Proust și gânditori ca William James. Deși popularitatea sa a stârnit controverse în cercurile științifice ale epocii, ideile sale despre „élan vital” rămân un punct de referință fundamental în metafizica modernă și în critica materialismului.

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Creative Evolution

By Henri Bergson

Translated by Arthur Mitchell

The history of the evolution of life, incomplete as it yet is, already reveals to us how the intellect has been formed, by an uninterrupted progress, along a line which ascends through the vertebrate series up to man. It shows us in the faculty of understanding an appendage of the faculty of acting, a more and more precise, more and more complex and supple adaptation of the consciousness of living beings to the conditions of existence that are made for them. Hence should result this consequence that our intellect, in the narrow sense of the word, is intended to secure the perfect fitting of our body to its environment, to represent the relations of external things among themselves--in short, to think matter. Such will indeed be one of the conclusions of the present essay. We shall see that the human intellect feels at home among inanimate objects, more especially among solids, where our action finds its fulcrum and our industry its tools; that our concepts have been formed on the model of solids; that our logic is, pre-eminently, the logic of solids; that, consequently, our intellect triumphs in geometry, wherein is revealed the kinship of logical thought with unorganized matter, and where the intellect has only to follow its natural movement, after the lightest possible contact with experience, in order to go from discovery to discovery, sure that experience is following behind it and will justify it invariably.

Creative Evolution (French: L'Evolution creatrice) is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation appeared in 1911. The book provides an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by an Elan 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, before the Neodarwinian synthesis was developed.

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 "duration" refers to a more individual, subjective experience of time, as opposed to mathematical, objectively measurable "clock time." In Creative Evolution, Bergson suggests that the experience of time as "duration" can best be understood through creative intuition, not through intellect.

Harvard philosopher William James intended to write the introduction to the English translation of the book, but died in 1910 prior to its completion.

Notă biografică

Henri Bergson (1859–1941) was born in Paris, the year Darwin’s Origin of Species was published. Initially drawn equally by the sciences and philosophy, at the age of eighteen Bergson won a prestigious prize for solving a mathematical problem. Choosing philosophy, he attended the École Normale Supérieure and the University of Paris before working as a school teacher in Angers and Clermont-Ferrand while completing his doctorate at the University of Paris in 1889. He worked for eight years at the Lycée Henri-IV before taking a position as Chair of Greek and Roman Philosophy at the Collège de France in Paris 1900. His weekly lectures soon attracted beyond capacity crowds, and his visits abroad to England and the United States filled venues and reportedly caused the first-ever traffic jam on Broadway in New York City. Bergson engaged with some of the leading contemporary thinkers, including a famous debate with Einstein in 1922 over the nature of time. He influenced Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, and the philosopher William James, and was a pioneering figure in the Modernist intellectual movement of the early twentieth century.

Cuprins

Foreword Elizabeth Grosz  Translator’s Introduction Donald A. Landes   Creative Evolution, by Henri Bergson, translated by Donald A. Landes  Bilingual Table of Contents  Introduction  1. On the Evolution of Life. Mechanism and Finality  2. The Diverging Directions of Life: Torpor, Intellect, and Instinct  3. On the Meaning of Life, the Order of Nature, and the Form of the Intellect  4. The Cinematographic Mechanism of Thought and the Mechanistic Illusion. A Glance at the History of Systems. Real Becoming and False Evolutionism   Correspondence, Reception, and Commentaries   Introduction  1. Correspondence  James–Bergson Correspondence (1907)  Letter to H. Wildon Carr (1908)  Letter to Florian Znaniecki (1911)  2. Critical Reception in Biology  Bergson and Le Dantec in Dialogue  Ruyer as Reader of Bergson  3. Critical Reception in Mathematics  Bergson and Borel in Dialogue  4. Critical Reception in Theology  Bergson and Tonquédec in Dialogue  5. Notable Commentaries  Canguilhem as Reader of L’évolution créatrice  Merleau-Ponty as Reader of L’évolution créatrice  Deleuze as Reader of L’évolution créatrice   Critical Apparatus  Editorial Endnotes  Bibliographies  Index

Recenzii

"I have been re-reading Bergson's books, and nothing that I have read for years has so excited and stimulated my thoughts. I am sure that his philosophy has a great future; it breaks through old frameworks and brings things to a solution from which new crystallizations can be reached." - William James (1903)
"An updated translation of Bergson’s most significant and most misunderstood book was long overdue. … Landes – who has previously translated Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception, another, notoriously elegant yet challenging text – more than meets these requirements. … There is no doubt that this new translation will become an absolute reference, not least because Landes has included illuminating passages from the critical apparatus of the most recent French edition of L’Evolution créatrice. But Landes’s most remarkable improvement is in his recreation of the effortless flow of Bergson’s philosophical prose." - Emily Herring, Times Literary Supplement
"This new translation by Donald Landes captures the mesmerizing work that turned Henri Bergson into one of the century’s most provocative thinkers—with expert annotations, correspondence and additional material by influential thinkers from William James to Gilles Deleuze." - Jimena Canales, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
"Henri Bergson, who personally oversaw the translation of all his books into English, would be delighted by this new edition of his greatest work. Donald Landes’s translation is exquisite and the extensive editorial notes are indispensable for the serious study of Creative Evolution." - Alexandre Lefebvre, University of Sydney, Australia
"This splendid new translation provides an exceptional, scholarly tool for serious specialists as well as all readers interested in Bergson’s work. It will swiftly become the definitive reference text for all Anglophone Bergson scholarship." - Christina Howells, University of Oxford, UK
"A major event in post-Kantian philosophy. Featuring a lucid introduction, helpful translator’s notes, and a judicious selection from Arnaud François’s illuminating critical dossier, this fine translation of Creative Evolution means that English-language Bergson scholarship has begun to gain the serious editions of his texts that it deserves." - Mark Sinclair, Roehampton University, UK
"This superb translation will introduce a new generation to Bergson. Landes's cogent introduction and editorial notes and the accompanying dossier of correspondence, reception and commentaries not only situates Creative Evolution in relation to Bergson's oeuvre, but also to the myriad scientific and philosophical sources informing his thought. An outstanding achievement." - Mark Antliff, Duke University, USA
"This wonderful new translation of Bergson’s classic Creative Evolution is warmly welcomed, as are the rich introduction, comprehensive editorial notes, and thoughtful selection of commentaries. There are many improvements to the original translation published over a century ago." - Emily Thomas, Durham University, UK
"Creative Evolution is essential reading today. To translate it well requires a serious engagement with Bergson’s entire body of work, sustained philosophical attention, a feel for context (including discoveries in thermodynamics) and, most importantly, enormous care. Happily, this is what Donald Landes offers us here." - Suzanne Guerlac, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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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.