The cult of creativity : a surprisingly recent history /

The cult of creativity : a surprisingly recent history /

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Author / Creator:	Franklin, Samuel Weil, author.
Imprint:	Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2023. ©2023
Description:	253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Creative ability -- United States. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Creative ability United States
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13295321

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ISBN:	9780226657851 022665785X 9780226657998
Provenance:	Binding: includes dust jacket.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--

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Call Number:	BF408.F68 2023
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