Creative Theories of (Just About) Everything: A Journey into Origins and Imaginations

by Jeroen Lutters

A plea for a broad education in creativity across disciplines, from acclaimed Dutch theorist Jeroen Lutters, author of In the Shadow of the Art Work Creativity has been hailed as the driving force and most important skill of the 21st century―a power to be taught, understood and deployed on all levels of society. Debate concerning the cognitive 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. It seems that true understanding of creativity is barely to be found within the humanities.

Here, using insights from these fields, and also delving into the ideas of Parmenides, Spinoza, Goethe, Emerson, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Barthes, Deleuze, Baudrillard, Kripke, Bollas, Spivak, Bal and many others, Dutch theorist Jeroen Lutters―author of In the Shadow of the Art Work and The Trade of the Teacher ―argues that creativity should be explicitly enforced in education and society, to open up new perspectives.

Genres: Writing, Art, Nonfiction

206 pages, Paperback

Published November 24, 2020

About the author

Jeroen Lutters is lector Art education as Critical Tactics (AeCT) aan ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem en gasthoogleraar aan de Universiteit Groningen en de Universiteit van Californië. Hij was rector van de Vrije Hogeschool en de Bernard Lievegoed University in Driebergen en een van de oprichters van het Teachers College Windesheim en (No) University in Zwolle. Hij promoveerde bij Mieke Bal (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, ASCA), wier narratologische benadering hem diepgaand heeft beïnvloed. Zijn manier van naar kunst kijken staat bekend als Art-Based (Un-)Learning (ABL) en geniet nationale en internationale bekendheid. Hij is de auteur van onder meer In de schaduw van het kunstwerk. Art Based Learning in de praktijk en Studies in Art-Based Learning (3 delen in een cassette, uitgegeven door ArtEZ Press).