‎BERGSON Henri‎
‎L'évolution créative.‎

‎L'évolution créative. Collection : Quadrige.‎

‎Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, PUF, 1991. 13 x 19, 372 pp., broché, bon état (dos insolé).‎

‎L'évolution créatrice. - [CREATIVE EVOLUTION - PRESENTATION-COPY]‎

‎Paris, 1907. 8vo. Bound uncut in a later brown half calf with gilt title-label and gilt lines to spine. Neat marginal repairs to a few leaves and first two leaveas trimmed at lower margin. Signed author's presentation-inscription to half-title. (4), VIII, 403 pp. + 31 pp. of advertisements from Félix Alcan.‎

‎Rare first edition, presentation-copy for Jean Baruzi, of Bergson's seminal main work, the ""Creative Evolution"", his most famous and influential book, which constitutes the great philosopher's cult-like showdown with Darwinian mechanism, which resulted in a theory of cosmic evolution that covered everything from biology and other sciences to metaphysics and religion.Jean Baruzi (1881-1953), an important French philosopher and historian of religion, specialized in Leibnitz and William James, was a student of Bergson. He was the author of a controversial dissertation, ""St. John of the Cross and the Problem of Mystical Experience"", which gave an existential-phenomenological description of religious andguish and the ""lived experience"" of the mystic. He was a professor at the Collège de Frace and held the Histoy of Religion chair after Alfred Loisy. In 1907, when Henri Bergson's third book, ""Creative Evolution"", was published, the seminal French philosopher, who had studied both mathematics and philosophy, possessed the professor chair of modern philosophy at the Collège de France. Though the book was the result of several years of extremely thorough research, Bergson himself could have hardly foreseen the effect that this book was going to have throughout the 19th century with an amazing revival in the 20th century, making him one of the most important philosophers of his time.Always committed to the reality of time as the basis and as a source of creative change, Bergson, in his magnum opus, sets out to free the sciences of psychology and biology from the materialism and mechanism that had dominated them in the late nineteenth century and due to which they had been made unable to explain creativity, growth and change. He makes an amazing new contribution to the theory of knowledge by providing an account of creative evolution and the creative mind, thereby freeing psychology and biology from a number of problems otherwise unsolvable through philosophical and scientific explanations. Bergson accepts the historical facts of evolution but rejects all the mechanistic and materialistic explanations of the evolutionary process. Like Darwin, he accepts natural selection as an explanation of extinction, but he does not accept it as an explanation of evolutionary change, and likewise with Lamarck, Spencer, and the orthogenesists, he accepts the foundational theories of evolution but only to the point at which mechanism or materialism sets in, instead of which, he basically explains further change and growth with a basic vital principle that accounts for creative changes.As such, ""Creative Evolution"" sets out to found a philosophy that can account for the continuity of all living things, for both the creation of life and the diversity that results from creation, and Bergson does this with his idea of an original vital principle, a governing immaterial force of life, a sort of natural creative impulse, that embraces the whole of life in one. The book was hugely popular when it appeared, and its immediate immense influence lasted a couple of decades, making Bergson an internationally acknowledged cult-like hero of a French intellectual. After the Second World War, though, the interest in Bergson decreased, only to be reawakened in the late 1960'ies where a growing interest in his works re-emerged, making him to this day one of the most read philosophers of the early 20th century. There can be no doubt as to the continued influence of his works.‎

‎"Actes du XIIe Congrès International d'Histoire des Sciences - Tome II (2). Problèmes généraux d'histoire des science, épistémologie , Paris, Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, du 25 au 31 août 1968 (Can we learn from history ? - Regularities in the development of science as manifested in the evolution of notions of the structure of the Earth - La répétition des expériences anciennes et son utilité pour l'histoire des sciences - An appeal for the history of scientific inspiration - Unité du théorique, du cognitif et création du libre - L'instrument et l'objet de recherche à la lumière de la théorie physique, d'après Pierre Duhem, Percy Williams Bridgman et Niels Bohr - Le cheminement vers la pensée scientifique -C.S. Peirce and the scientific philosophy of Ernst Mach - L'histoire de la science et l'épistémologie - Les trois genres de découvertes selon Descartes - History of science and development - Pour une histoire de la philosophie des sciences - Exponential or logistical law of scientific development - Expériences et comptes rendus d'expériences chez Galilée - Le développement axiomatique des sciences et les perspectives actuelles de la philosophie des sciences - Who's who in the history of science, a survey of our profession - The problem of the ""Scientific Revolution"" - La logique et l'histoire des sciences - General System Theory : Evolution of ideas - Experience et experiment in Galileo's De Motu - Aperçu historique des principaux essais de classification des sciences - The Isis Cumulative Bibliography -The results of a socio-psychological study of creative activity in science and technology)"‎

‎Librairie Scientifique et Technique Albert Blanchard , Congrès International d'Histoire des Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1971 Book condition, Etat : Très Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur verte grand In-8 1 vol. - 119 pages‎

‎ 1ere édition, 1971 "Contents, Chapitres : Joseph Agassi : Can we learn from history ? - I. Batjushkova : Regularities in the development of science as manifested in the evolution of notions of the structure of the Earth - Luigi Belloni : La répétition des expériences anciennes et son utilité pour l'histoire des sciences - John F. Bennett : An appeal for the history of scientific inspiration - Georges Bouligand : Unité du théorique, du cognitif et création du libre - I. Dambska : L'instrument et l'objet de recherche à la lumière de la théorie physique, d'après Pierre Duhem, Percy Williams Bridgman et Niels Bohr - Goerges Dubal : Le cheminement vers la pensée scientifique - C. Eisele : C.S. Peirce and the scientific philosophy of Ernst Mach - A. Ferraz : L'histoire de la science et l'épistémologie - Alan Gabbey : Les trois genres de découvertes selon Descartes - E. Herlitzius : History of science and development - C. Joja : Pour une histoire de la philosophie des sciences - I. Konfederatov : Exponential or logistical law of scientific development - Paul McCartney et Vinaty Thomas : Expériences et comptes rendus d'expériences chez Galilée - Noel Mouloud : Le développement axiomatique des sciences et les perspectives actuelles de la philosophie des sciences - Derek J. de Solla Price : Who's who in the history of science, a survey of our profession - Jerome Ravetz : The problem of the ""Scientific Revolution"" - Naum Rodnyi : La logique et l'histoire des sciences - Vadim Sadovsky : General System Theory : Evolution of ideas - Charles B. Schmitt : Experience et experiment in Galileo's De Motu - Pierre Speziali : Aperçu historique des principaux essais de classification des sciences - Magda Whitrow : The Isis Cumulative Bibliography - Anatoli A. Zvorikin : The results of a socio-psychological study of creative activity in science and technology" bords des plats à peine jaunis, sinon bel exemplaire, intérieur frais et propre, papier à peine jauni - Actes du XIIeme Congrès International d'Histoire des Sciences - Tome 2 seul, complet en lui-même sur les problèmes généraux de l'histoire des sciences et l'épistémologie‎

‎Bergson Henri: Creative Evolution. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)‎

‎Bergson Henri: Creative Evolution. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Bergson Anri. Tvorcheskaya evolyutsiya.. Translation from the 3rd French edition of M. Bulgakov. M. The Partnership of A. I. Mamontovs Printing House, 1909. 320s. SKUalba83924e1cf3a9988.‎

‎Bergson Henri. Creative Evolution. Matter and Memory. In Russian (ask us if in ‎

‎Bergson Henri. Creative Evolution. Matter and Memory. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Bergson Anri. Tvorcheskaya evolyutsiya.Materiya i pamyat.. A series of classic philosophical thoughts. Minsk: Harvest. 1999. SKUalb8240e7ce26bf4d7b.‎