The Creative Mind

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The final published book by Nobel Prize-winning author and philosopher Henri Bergson (1859-1941) </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>La pensée et le mouvant</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Thought and Movement-here translated as </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-is a masterly autobiography of his philosophical method. Through essays and lectures written between 1903 and 1923 Bergson retraces how and why he became a philosopher along the way crafting a fascinating critique of philosophy itself. Until it leaves its false paths he demonstrates philosophy will remain only a wordy dialectic that at best solves false problems. With consummate skill and intensity Bergson shows that for philosophy to become a genuine search for truth metaphysics and science must be rooted in experience; and further that to make real headway on this quest the spiritual dimension of human life and the importance of intuition must occupy center stage. </span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Creative Mind</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> has been a source of inspiration for physicists as well as philosophers as Bergson reveals in these pages a lively philosophy uniting man's spiritual drive with his mastery of the physical world-that is a philosophy ever in movement as the original French title plainly states. This Angelico Press edition includes a new foreword </span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>by Iain McGilchrist that serves to situate and burnish the pivotal importance of Bergson and this book amid the dark warren of today's errant paths.</span></p>