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Creativity and Aesthetic Theory
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Creativity and Aesthetic Theory

By: Michael H. Mitias

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This book provides a critical analysis of creativity in art, focusing on artistic creation and aesthetic perception. Long dismissed from aesthetic discourse, it argues that studying creativity is essential to understanding the nature of the artistic and the aesthetic.

This book provides a critical, systematic-analytical, and detailed analysis of creativity in art with special emphasis on the activity of artistic creation and the process…
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This book provides a critical, systematic-analytical, and detailed analysis of creativity in art with special emphasis on the activity of artistic creation and the process of aesthetic perception. Consciously dismissed from the realm of aesthetic discourse during the past century, the book argues that the study of creativity is a primary task of aesthetic theory; understanding its dynamics, source, and the conditions under which it happens is a necessary condition for an adequate analysis of the essential nature of the artistic and the aesthetic.

Michael H. Mitias is a retired Professor of Philosophy at Millsaps College, USA, having taught for more than 40 years. He has written extensively on the theory of values, and has published a large number of articles and edited several books. He has written seven philosophical novels, as well as many books in the areas of aesthetics, ethics, and philosophy of religion, including Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue and The Philosophical Novel as a Literary Genre.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-5275-8678-2
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-8678-9
  • Date of Publication: 2022-08-05

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-5275-1726-8
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-1726-4
  • Date of Publication: 2023-06-03

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-5275-8679-0
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-8679-6
  • Date of Publication: 2023-06-03
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  • BIC: ABA, HPN, DS
  • THEMA: ABA, QDTN, DS
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