1st Edition
The Collective Imagination The Creative Spirit of Free Societies
By Peter Murphy
Copyright 2012
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Collective Imagination explores the social foundations of the human imagination. In a lucid and wide-ranging discussion, Peter Murphy looks at the collective expression of the imagination in our economies, universities, cities, and political systems, providing a tour-de-force account of the power of the imagination to unite opposites and find similarities among things that we ordinarily think... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Part I The Media of Creation: Imagination; Wit; Paradox; Metaphor. Part II Collective Creation: Art; Economy; Society; Politics; References; Index.
Biography
Peter Murphy is Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University, Australia. He is the author of Universities and Innovation Economies, and Civic Justice, and co-author of Dialectic of Romanticism, Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy, Global Creation, and Imagination.
A Yankee Book Peddler UK Core Title for 2012 A Yankee Book Peddler US Core Title for 2012 Classified as 'Research Essential' by Baker & Taylor YBP Library Services 'The Collective Imagination is quite simply a tour de force. It traverses the grand landscape of creativity and its sources. It explores with original and persuasive clarity the links, in nations and regions, between economic prosperity and creative individuals. Its argumentcarries fateful implications for Western countries today-highlighting political failure, economic policy stupidity, and a blindness to the factors necessary for innovation, and thereby for social vitality.' John Carroll, La Trobe University, Australia 'The Collective Imagination is a fascinating and kaleidoscopic work. It constitutes one of the most illuminating and comprehensive explorations of that mysterious and elusive dimension of human experience: acts of creation ... any future discussion of creativity that did not engage with The Collective Imagination would be deficient.' Craig Browne, Thesis Eleven
