Creative Evolution (Paperback, 1)

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 Tonquedec in Dialogue  5. Notable Commentaries  Canguilhem as Reader of L’evolution creatrice  Merleau-Ponty as Reader of L’evolution creatrice  Deleuze as Reader of L’evolution creatrice   Critical Apparatus  Editorial Endnotes  Bibliographies  Index