✍ Scribed by Pier Paolo Bellini
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This open access book offers a concise overview of the theories constructed within the various human sciences around the theme of creativity as a symbolic capacity to link things together: it manifests itself when the individual endowed with a certain type of intelligence encounters cultural and social conditions that enable them to develop that capacity to the maximum, rather than inhibiting it or diverting it to other fields where it is doomed to failure. Even the most intimate of human expressiveness is considered as a result of an active social relationality. Social dimensions of creativity (evaluation, primary socialization, motivation, leadership) and “creative processes” (creative attitude, creative gesture, divergent thinking, problem-solving capacity, interdisciplinary approach, randomness, algorithmic creativity) are also analysed.
The book concludes by evaluating the course taken in the light of the relational theory of society: the development of creativity cannot beconceived outside of self-other relations.
This book is the result of a translation done with the help of artificial intelligence. The text has subsequently been revised further by a professional copy editor in order to refine the work stylistically.
Contents
1: Nature and Sources of Creativity
1.1 Story of a Great Return
1.2 Creativity as a “Subject of Study”
1.2.1 The “He” Paradigm
1.2.2 The “I” Paradigm
1.2.3 The “We” Paradigm
1.3 Creativity and/Is Transcendence
1.4 The Revolution of “Symbolic Combinations”
1.5 Intelligences
References
2: Creativity and Contexts
2.1 The Social Components of the Creative Approach
2.1.1 Creativity and Environment
2.1.2 The “Internal Group”
2.1.3 Evaluation
2.1.4 The “Unresolved” Gesture
2.2 Primary Socialization
2.3 Motivation
2.4 Leadership and Creativity
References
3: The “Creative Processes”
3.1 The Creative Attitude
3.2 The “Creative Gesture”
3.3 The “Divergent Thinking”
3.4 The Construction of the Problem
3.5 Interdisciplinarity
3.6 Randomness
3.7 Ai-Da: Synthetic Creativity
3.7.1 Mind-Man
3.7.2 Homo sentiens: The Man of Feeling
3.7.3 Otherness
3.7.4 Evaluation of Innovations
3.8 Talent or Training?
References
4: Relational Dimension of Creativity
4.1 The “Primary Sociality”
4.2 Reflections and Developments
References
Index
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