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The value of creativity : the origins and emergence of a modern belief / John Hope Mason.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mason, John Hope.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creative ability--Philosophy.
- Creative ability.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 308 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1 Prologue: the divine wanderer: Aims
- themes
- limits 1
- 2 Creation myths and virgin birth: Ancient Greek writings
- Judaeo-Christian theology 12
- 3 The lion, the fox, and celestial harmony: Machiavelli
- Ficino
- poets and poetics 31
- 4 New worlds: Bacon
- Sprat
- Defoe 60
- 5 Action and imagination: Mandeville
- Hume
- A. Smith 75
- 6 Genius: Blackwell
- Diderot
- Rousseau
- Goethe 107
- 7 Intuition and judgement: Shaftesbury
- Young
- Kant 135
- 8 Progress: Condorcet
- Herder
- Hegel 157
- 9 'The true function of man': Carlyle
- Coleridge
- Arnold
- Marx 179
- 10 Radiant twilight: Nietzsche 209
- 11 Epilogue: the fire and the fennel-stalk: Creativity as a value now 228.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-293) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754607607
- OCLC:
- 50023124
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