Creative experience / Mary Parker Follett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Follett, Mary Parker, 1868-1933, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Social psychology.

Experience.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 303 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Longmans, Green and Co, 1930.

Summary:

"The acceptance of the doctrine of circular or integrative behavior which I have tried to give in this book, lends a new significance to adjustment. This doctrine gives us hints of that "mystery moment" which leads from the existing to the new, shows us a progressive experience, the way of individual and social development. Yet it is not from the psychological field alone that our thought is receiving this impetus. The rapprochement of results from widely different fields of research is as striking as it is significant. The psychobiologist and the political scientist, physiologist and philosopher, jurist and psychologist, are reaching certain conclusions which bear a most suggestive resemblance to one another. And these conclusions lead to a conception of creative experience which is perhaps seminal for our future thinking, a conception which is surely destined to influence largely the social sciences"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

part 1. Experience as self-sustaining and self-renewing process

part 2. An experimental attitude toward experience.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.