Modes of Creativity: Philosophical Perspectives by Irving Singer

by Irving Singer

In this philosophical exploration of creativity, Irving Singer describesthe many different types of creativity and their varied manifestations within andacross all the arts and sciences. Singer's approach is pluralistic rather thanabstract or dogmatic. His reflections amplify recent discoveries in cognitivescience and neurobiology by aligning them with the aesthetic, affective, andphenomenological framework of experience and behavior that characterizes the humanquest for meaning. Creativity has long fascinated Singer, and in Modes of Creativityhe carries forward investigations begun in earlier works. Marshaling a wealth ofexamples and anecdotes ranging from antiquity to the present, about persons asdiverse as Einstein and Sherlock Holmes, Singer describes the interactions of thecreative and the imaginative, the inventive, the novel, and the original. Hemaintains that our preoccupation with creativity devolves from biological, psychological, and social bases of our material being; that creativity is notlimited to any single aspect of human existence but rather inheres not only in artand the aesthetic but also in science, technology, moral practice, as well asordinary daily experience.

Genres: Philosophy

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First published December 10, 2010

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[J · Rating 2 out of 5]

Had to read some idiot 19 year olds pencil scribbles over everything