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."
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I can recommend this book to anyone. It not only provides the finest modern philosophical insights, wherever you start reading, but it also is written in a sort of poetry. He got the Nobel prize for literature in '27. There is no prize like that for philosophy, which explains it, but his English and especially his metaphors, are of the highest quality as well. Splendid on all accounts.
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