A critical theory of creativity : utopia, aesthetics, atheism and design / Richard Howells, King's College London, UK.
A Critical Theory of Creativity argues that a Utopian drive is aesthetically encoded within the language of form. Combining multidisciplinary theory with case studies ranging from planned communities to the relationship between Navajo theology and design, this book demonstrates how humankind is stri...
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Visions -and derisions- of utopia
- Ernst Bloch and utopian critical theory
- Homo aestheticus
- Case study : Navajo design, culture and theology
- Archetypes, the unconscious and psychoanalysis
- Roger Fry and the language of form
- From Genesis to Job
- Homo absconditus.