Published by Henry Holt and Company
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st thus. 407 pages, hardcover. Blue cloth boards are in very good condition, despite some light bumping to the corners. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book provides an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by an à lan vital, a "vital impetus" that can also be understood as humanity's natural creative impulse. Bergson suggests that the experience of time as "duration" can best be understood through creative intuition, not through intellect. Clean copy.