The Creativity Reader is a necessary companion for anyone interested in the historical roots of contemporary ideas about creativity, innovation, and imagination. It brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with choosing, introducing, and commenting on seminal texts focused on creativity, invention, genius, and imagination from the period of 1850 to 1950. This volume is at once retrospective and prospective: it revisits old ideas, assesses their importance today, and explores their potential for the future. Through its wide historical focus, this Reader challenges the widespread assumption that creativity research is mainly a product of the second half of the twentieth century. Featuring primary sources interpreted through the lenses of leading contemporary scholars, *The Creativity Reade*r testifies to the incredible richness of this field of study, helps us understand its current developments, and anticipates its future directions. The texts included here, many of them little known or forgotten, are part of the living history of creativity studies. Indeed, an examination of these seminal papers helps the new generation of creativity and innovation researchers to be mindful of the past and unafraid to explore it.
Auteur
Vlad Glaveanu is Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Psychology and Director of the Webster Center for Creativity and Innovation at Webster University Geneva, Switzerland, as well as Associate Professor II at SLATE, University of Bergen, Norway. He obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics. His work develops a sociocultural account of creativity and imagination, collaboration, and perspective-taking.
Contenu
Chapter 1 Revisiting the Foundations of Creativity Studies Vlad P. Glaveanu PART ONE The Creative Process Chapter 2 The Art of (Creative) Thought: Graham Wallas on the Creative Process Teresa M. Amabile Chapter 3 Science and Method, Henri Poincaré Giovanni Emanuele Corazza and Todd Lubart Chapter 4 Inspiration or Perspiration? Reflections on Edwin Prindle's "The Art of Inventing" David H. Cropley PART TWO Creativity Assessment Chapter 5 Dr. Laura M. Chassell Toops: Forgotten Pioneer of Creativity Assessment James C. Kaufman Chapter 6 Sir Francis Galton and the "Statistics of Mental Imagery" Maciej Karwowski and Dorota M. Jankowska Chapter 7 Measuring Ideation in the 1900s: The Contribution of Alfred Binet Baptiste Barbot and Jacques-Henri Guignard PART THREE Creative Thinking Chapter 8 The Impact and Pitfalls of "Real Thinking": Wertheimer's Continuing Influence Michael Hanchett Hanson Chapter 9 Functional Fixedness, Creativity and Problem-Solving, Karl Duncker Vlad P. Glaveanu Chapter 10 Abductive Reasoning and the Genesis of New Ideas, Charles S. Peirce Ronald A. Beghetto PART FOUR Beyond Creative Thinking Chapter 11 Imitation and Creativity, Gabriel Tarde and James Mark Baldwin Vlad P. Glaveanu Chapter 12 Tragedies of Actualization Michael Hanchett Hanson Chapter 13 Do We Make Our Own Luck? Reflections on Ernst Mach's Analysis of Invention and Discovery David H. Cropley PART FIVE Creativity Development and Education Chapter 14 Imagination and Creativity in Childhood, L.S. Vygotsky Seana Moran and Vera John-Steiner Chapter 15 The Meaning of Play, Erik H. Erikson Jessica D. Hoffmann and Rose H. Miller Chapter 16 Creativity in the Classroom, John Dewey Beth A. Hennessey PART SIX Genius and Creativity Chapter 17 The Nature and Nurture of Creative Genius, Francis Galton Dean Keith Simonton Chapter 18 On Great Thoughts, William James Dean Keith Simonton Chapter 19 Genius and Eminence, Catharine M. Cox Dean Keith Simonton PART SEVEN Creativity, Imagination, and Day-Dreaming Chapter 20 On "Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" by Sigmund Freud (1908) Tania Zittoun Chapter 21 Théodule Ribot's Essay on Creative Imagination: A Plea For the Study of Multiple Creativities Christophe Mouchiroud and Todd Lubart Chapter 22 On Bartlett's (1928) Types of Imagination Tania Zittoun PART EIGHT Creativity in Art and Design Chapter 23 Creativity as a Process: John Dewey's "Art as Experience" Keith Sawyer Chapter 24 Literary Creative Imagination, Alfred Binet Todd Lubart and Christophe Mouchiroud Chapter 25 Skinner on Poetry, Fiction, and Design: An Implicit Science of Creativity Mark A. Runco PART NINE Creativity in Groups and Interactions Chapter 26 Social Creativity and the Emergent Self, George Herbert Mead Vlad P. Glaveanu Chapter 27 Group Dynamics and Team Creativity: The Contribution of Kurt Lewin to the Study of Teams, Creativity, and Innovation Roni Reiter-Palmon and Salvatore Leone Chapter 28 The Idea in Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bakhtin Vlad P. Glaveanu PART TEN Creativity, Culture, and Society Chapter 29 Configurations of Culture Growth, Alfred L. Kroeber Dean Keith Simonton Chapter 30 Sociability and Creativity, The Sociology of Georg Simmel Vlad P. Glaveanu Chapter 31 Authoritarianism and Creativity: Else Frenkel-Brunswik and "The Authoritarian Personality" Alfonso Montuori PART ELEVEN Critical Reflections Chapter 32 The Recurring Challenge of Nietzche Michael Hanchett Hanson Chapter 33 Introducing New Voices to the Creativity Studies Conversation: W.E.B. Du Bois, Double-Consciousness, and "The Souls of Black Folk" Edward P. Clapp Chapter 34 Beyond Creative Destruction, Joseph Schumpeter Vlad P. Glaveanu