Rethinking Creativity
Rethinking Creativity
This book presents a new perspective on creativity: that creative innovation depends on inside-of-the-box thinking. It shows that creativity builds on what we know and how we use old ideas to produce new ones. In a highly readable format, Robert W. Weisberg uses case studies of seminal creative advances, such as Leonardo's 'Aerial Screw' and Frank Lloyd Wright's award-winning house, 'Fallingwater.' These fascinating examples are evaluated alongside cutting-edge research to present an analysis of creativity that challenges us to think differently about this intriguing cognitive ability.
- Introduces a new way of thinking about creativity
- Highlights case studies of significant creative advances from history
- Lays out a critical review of modern research on creativity
- Shows how to examine creativity from a scientific perspective
Reviews & endorsements
'This is a tour-de-force volume explaining the controversial view that creativity does not involve any special thought processes, just those processes that we use every day. The book conveys the timely and important message that creativity is not only for the gifted, the artistically talented, or the genius. Rather, it is something anyone can practice.' Robert J. Sternberg, Professor of Human Development, Cornell University, USA, and Honorary Professor of Psychology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Product details
September 2020Hardback
9781108479400
420 pages
235 × 160 × 35 mm
1.1kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction:
- 1. Setting the stage: Introduction to the study of creativity:
- 2. Creativity: What it is
- Part II. Analytic Thinking in Creativity:
- 3. Problem solving
- 4. Case studies of creativity: the universality of creativity
- 5. Analogical thinking in problem solving and creativity
- Part III. The Question of Extraordinary Thought Processes in Creativity:
- 6. How do you get to Carnegie hall? Practice, talent, and creativity
- 7. Insight in problem solving and creative thinking
- 8. The question of unconscious processes in creative thinking
- 9. Genius and madness
- Part IV. The Psychometrics of Creativity: Can We Identify Creative People?
- 10. Testing for creativity: divergent thinking, executive functioning, and creative thinking
- 11. The search for 'the creative personality'
- Part V. The Bigger Picture:
- 12. Two confluence theories of creativity
- Part VI. The Neuroscience of Creativity:
- 13. The neuroscience of creativity.
