L'Évolution créatrice vs The Problems of Philosophy: Which Should You Read?

Cover of L'Évolution créatrice L'Évolution créatrice Henri Bergson · 1907 ★★★★☆ 4.1 416 pages · ≈ 7 h 42 m · Demanding

French philosopher Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution was published in 1907 and translated into English in 1911. Very popular at the time, it gives an alternate mechanism for evolution - that it is motivated by an "elan…

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Cover of The Problems of Philosophy The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell · 1900 ★★★★☆ 3.9 98 pages · ≈ 1 h 49 m · Demanding

In the following pages I have confined myself in the main to those problems of philosophy in regard to which I thought it possible to say something positive and constructive, since merely negative criticism seemed out…

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L'Évolution créatriceThe Problems of Philosophy
Goodreads 4.1 (1522) 3.9 (19134)
Hardcover — 3.7 (63)
Apple Books — 4.0 (25)

Reception

L'Évolution créatriceThe Problems of Philosophy
Ratings 1522 19134
Editions 125 288
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read 7847 44951
Pages 416 98

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