Through what processes does life emerge from non-life? How can the relation between matter and life be understood? Is life of the same substance as matter? Is conceptuality or ideality a function of matter; or is it a new order of materiality? Trying to answer these very big questions, with help from the works of Charles Darwin, Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, Grosz will try to develop a non-materialist account of materiality.