A critical theory of creativity
Subtitle: utopia, aesthetics, atheism and design
By: Richard Howells, King's College London, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London, UK; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781137446169
Subjects: Creative ability; Arts; Religious aspects; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Philosophy
Description: A Critical Theory of Creativity' argues that a Utopian drive is aesthetically encoded within the language of form. But coupled with this opportunity comes a very human obligation which cannot be delegated to God, to nature or to market forces. As Ernst Bloch declared: 'Life has been put into our hands.'
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Visions -and derisions- of utopia; title: Ernst Bloch and utopian critical theory; title: Homo aestheticus; title: Case study : Navajo design, culture and theology; title: Archetypes, the unconscious and psychoanalysis; title: Roger Fry and the language of form; title: From Genesis to Job; title: Homo absconditus.