Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution 100 Years Later

Special Issue of SubStance, Issue 114, 36:3 (2007)

Michael Kolkman, Michael Vaughan, Michael Kolkman, Michael Vaughan

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Year: 2010
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780299238032
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Biological Sciences

This special issue of SubStance (2007) celebrates the centennial of Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution, published in 1907.  Since evolution is a living process and not a completed history, any understanding of it must necessarily be open-ended. If no one can have the last word, Bergson writes, the project of understanding evolution "will only be built up by the collective and progressive effort of many thinkers, of many observers also, completing, correcting and improving one another."
    Included in the issue are articles from Bergson scholars from the United States, Japan, France and Great Britain. Topics in the issue range from Bergson's encounters with Darwin, Nietzsche, Derrida and Deleuze, and from the analytical to the metaphysical.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword by Michael Kolkman
• Introduction to "Creative Evolution" by Michael Vaughan
• The Metaphysics of Life by Henri Bergson (translated by Micahel Vaughan)
• Bergson's Creation of the Possible by Pete A. Y. Gunter
• Bergson and Darwin: From an Immanentist to an Emergentist Approach to Evolution by Paul-Antoine Miquel
• Beyond the Human Condition: An Introduction to Deleuze's Lecture Course by Keith Ansell Pearson
• Lecture Course on Chapter Three of Bergson's "Creative Evolution" by Gilles Deleuze (translated by Bryn Loban)
• Matter and Light in Bergson's "Creative Evolution" by Pierre Montebello (translated by Roxanne Lapidus)
• Life and Will in Nietzsche and Bergson by Arnaud Francois (translated by Roxanne Lapidus)
• Bergson's Hand: Toward a History of (Non)-Organic Vitalism by Hisashi Fujitaa (translated by Roxanne Lapidus)
• Reviews
• Contributors