The cult of creativity a surprisingly recent history

"Samuel Weil Franklin shows that in postwar America, the newfangled term "creativity" was the product of campaigns to harness the power of the individual to the demands of capitalist production and global hegemony. Franklin reveals that the champions of creativity were psychologists, educators, and...

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Main Author: Franklin, Samuel Weil (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
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505 0 0 |t Introduction --  |t Between the commonplace and the sublime --  |t The birth of brainstorming --  |t Creativity as self-actualization --  |t Synectics at the shoe --  |t The creative child --  |t Revolution on Madison Avenue --  |t Creativity is dead... --  |t From progress to creativity --  |t Long live creativity --  |t Conclusion: What is to be done? 
520 |a "Samuel Weil Franklin shows that in postwar America, the newfangled term "creativity" was the product of campaigns to harness the power of the individual to the demands of capitalist production and global hegemony. Franklin reveals that the champions of creativity were psychologists, educators, and management consultants who benefited from postwar technological progress yet worried that the resulting society might promote conformity and stifle ingenuity. Against increasingly reified institutions and systems, the "creative individual" took on a wealth of romantic, generative, and democratic associations. Creativity was the motive force behind the postwar individual, the literal spark-and cannon fodder-of progress"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
650 0 |a Creative ability  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) 
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