Modes of creativity : philosophical perspectives / / Irving Singer
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| Autore: |
Singer Irving
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| Titolo: |
Modes of creativity : philosophical perspectives / / Irving Singer
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 128/.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophy |
| Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | PHILOSOPHY/General |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Prologue : reversing mistakes about creativity -- The creative experience -- The creative process -- Three myths of artistic creativity -- Aesthetic creativity -- Creativity in expression, metaphor, myth -- The prosaic and the absurd in their creative context -- Creativity in practice -- Creativity in science, technology, and mathematics -- Creativity and reality. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Philosophical reflections on creativity in science, humanities, and human experience as a whole.In this philosophical exploration of creativity, Irving Singer describes the many different types of creativity and their varied manifestations within and across all the arts and sciences. Singer's approach is pluralistic rather than abstract or dogmatic. His reflections amplify recent discoveries in cognitive science and neurobiology by aligning them with the aesthetic, affective, and phenomenological framework of experience and behavior that characterizes the human quest for meaning.Creativity has long fascinated Singer, and in Modes of Creativity he carries forward investigations begun in earlier works. Marshaling a wealth of examples and anecdotes ranging from antiquity to the present, about persons as diverse as Albert Einstein and Sherlock Holmes, Singer describes the interactions of the creative and the imaginative, the inventive, the novel, and the original. He maintains that our preoccupation with creativity devolves from biological, psychological, and social bases of our material being; that creativity is not limited to any single aspect of human existence but rather inheres not only in art and the aesthetic but also in science, technology, moral practice, as well as ordinary daily experience. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Modes of creativity |
| ISBN: | 0-262-29510-5 |
| 0-262-29576-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779545403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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