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Creative Theories of (Just About) Everything: A Journey into Origins and Imaginations
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Creative Theories of (Just About) Everything: A Journey into Origins and Imaginations
Current price: $30.00
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Creative Theories of (Just About) Everything: A Journey into Origins and Imaginations
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Creativity has been hailed as the driving force and most important skill of the twenty-first century-a power to be taught, understood and deployed on all levels of society. Debate concerning the origins and potential of creativity is mostly confined to the realms of the natural and social sciences, with insights ranging from neurology to theoretical physics to psychology and educational sciences. Still, research on creativity is scarcely encountered within the humanities. Here, using insights from these fields, and also delving into the ideas of Parmenides, Spinoza, Goethe, Emerson, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Bergson, Deleuze, Spivak, and many others, the author Jeroen Lutters argues that creativity should be explicitly enforced in education and society, to open up new perspectives. The author explores and defines a 'possible world' in which creativity is part of everything in nature. Knowing and using this creative source should be a formative force, not only in the arts and in education, but in rethinking our society at large. Lutters' text is accompanied by Ina Meijer's art works: tapestries that play with two-dimensionality, tactility, scale, texture and structure.