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Creativity and time : a sociological exploration / Juan A. Roche Cárcel.

9783030848385 (electronic bk.)
3030848388 (electronic bk.)
9783030848378
303084837X

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

English

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10.1007/978-3-030-84838-5 doi

BF433.O7

153.3/5

This book defends that the pursuit of originality constitutes one of the most important characteristics of creativity, but that originality refers, etymologically, to both origin and originary. Hence, the book is structured into two parts, dedicated, respectively, to the creative categories of origin and the creative categories of originary. Within the former are creation myths, games the origin of all cultural activity, the dialectic chaos-order, axial civilizations the germ of our time, and the struggle between generations a factor of social transformation, and, within the second, creative capitalism, creative work in the context of the global economy of risk and uncertainty, and representative democracy. However, these two concepts are not isolated, but deeply interrelated, in a way that explains how creative originality builds a temporal narrative. It has been dislocated in late modernity and, with it, creativity has been broken. Juan A. Roche Carcel is a professor of sociology of culture and the arts at the University of Alicante (Spain). He is the author of numerous books and articles on culture and arts and president of the committee for the sociology of emotions at the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES).

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Palgrave studies in creativity and culture.

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