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The Creativity Question
Contributor(s): Rothenberg, Albert (Editor)
ISBN: 082230354X     ISBN-13: 9780822303541
Publisher: Duke University Press
OUR PRICE:   $28.45  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: November 1976
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Annotation: This book of readings can be traced to a twofold inception: chance and the convergence of two directed interests. The editors are a psychiatrist and philosopher, both of whom have made distinctive contributions to the perplexing problems of human creativity.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Creative Ability
Dewey: 153.350
LCCN: 75030132
Physical Information: 0.92" H x 5.92" W x 9" (1.12 lbs) 384 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Albert Rothenberg, a psychiatrist, and Carl R. Hausman, a philosopher, have prepared a truly comprehensive interdisciplinary book of readings on creativity. This group of selections from the works of writers in psychiatry, philosophy, psychology, psychoanalysis, and education brings together, for the first time, major theoretical works, outstanding empirical findings, and discussions of the definition and nature of creativity.
The organization of The Creativity Question is unique: it illustrates the various approaches and basic assumptions underlying studies of creativity throughout the course of history up to the present time. The main body of selections appears under the categories of descriptions, attempts at explanation, and alternate approaches. As specific orientations to creativity can be traced to particular initiating thinkers and investigators, there is a special chapter on seminal accounts containing selections from the works of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Galton, and Freud. Another chapter includes recent illustrations of special types of exploratory trends: creativity of women, brain research, synectics, extrasensory perception, behaviorism, and creativity computer programming. This organization highlights the tension between strictly scientific accounts and alternative approaches offering new ways of understanding. The editors have provided for the books as a whole and for each chapter explanation and discussion of the basic issues raised by the various approaches to creativity.