A Critical Theory of Creativity : Utopia, Aesthetics, Atheism and Design
ISBN: 9781137446176
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: Social Science;

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.'

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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