A Critical Theory of Creativity by R Howells

A Critical Theory of Creativity by R Howells

A Critical Theory of Creativity argues that a Utopian drive is aesthetically encoded within the language of form. But coupled with this opportunity comes a very human obligation which cannot be delegated to God, to nature or to market forces. As Ernst Bloch declared: 'Life has been put into our hands.'

“The great strength of Howells’s book is that it is, in the very best sense of the word, interdisciplinary… his A Critical Theory of Creativity is a celebration of the human spirit and the ‘Christ-impulse’ that compels us all to hope even in the face of the inhuman. It is absolutely indispensable reading especially for scholars of Bloch who want to better understand how his ideas relate to the creative and the visual.” (Duncan Reyburn, English Academy Review, Vol. 33 (1), April, 2016)

Richard Howells is Professor of Cultural Sociology at King's College London, UK, where he specialises in visual and popular culture, together with cultural and critical theory. He studied at Harvard and Cambridge universities and lives in London and West Sussex with his wife, the designer Sarah Howson.

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ISBN 13	9781349685790
ISBN 10	1349685798
Title	A Critical Theory of Creativity
Author	R Howells
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	2017-07-27
Number of pages	204
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