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Which book is Henri Bergson’s best-known work?

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Henri Bergson’s most famous and best-known work is L’Évolution créatrice (1907), published in English as Creative Evolution.1

In this influential text, Bergson presents his philosophical theory of creative evolution, arguing that the evolutionary process is driven by an élan vital, or "vital impulse," rather than by purely mechanistic or deterministic forces.21