Doorway to Artistry: Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Creativity

by Esther Lightcap Meek, Makoto Fujimura (Foreword), Martyn Smith (Illustrator)

Your artistry involves you intimately with the world around and beyond you. So your artistry involves profound but simple philosophical matters. As a human person, you are artful and philosophical, at the core of your being. Doorway to Artistry offers a playful, everyday philosophical approach necessary for life, integration, healing, and thriving in artistry. It reflects on the real and how we are involved with it, especially in our creative effort. In short, the real hospitably welcomes us, and in our artistry we reciprocate in noble courtesy. Human persons were made for this communion with the real. Find in this book a hospitable welcome to belong at home beyond where you are.

Genres: Art, Philosophy

248 pages, Paperback

Published June 15, 2023

About the author

Esther Lightcap Meek (BA, Cedarville College; MA, Western Kentucky University; PhD, Temple University) is Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Geneva College. She is a Makoto Fujimura Institute Scholar, a member of The Polanyi Society, and an Associate Fellow with the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology.

Esther is the author of four books and several publications which express philosophical insights in every-day language for all of us. She also gives courses, workshops and talks for high schools, colleges and graduate institutions, as well as for businesses, churches, and other organizations.

Reviews

[Matt Allhands · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is much more dense than you might think at first glance - but the guiding metaphor is very clear. I suggest skimming each chapter's intro to get a functional outline before diving into it in depth.

[Erika · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Let us allow the glimmering ends we desire constitute our beginnings and ventures."

Sometimes my head swims with the grand philosophical words and ideas, but Esther continually re-grounds us (and I really mean us, I feel that I was on a months-long journey with her) by allowing the ideas to dwell in the lived spaces of her home, 1124. it's a really fun set up and truly a welcome into her life, her home, her ideas, the real that beckons.

[Aimee Byrd · Rating 5 out of 5]

Meek's provoking and inviting philosophy is matched by her joy and passion for life and people.