7 Creativity and the Counter-Enlightenment
In relation to sensation, this chapter surveys the impact of Hamann, Herder, Fichte, Schiller, Schelling and Schopenhauer clustered under the moniker ‘Counter-Enlightenment philosophy’, along with others such as Vico and Kant whose thinking informed this group. Together, albeit indirectly, they remain influential on what we understand today as creativity. Summed up, this involves the capacity to create and fashion within indeterminate environments, an awareness of the pliability of the real, cultural relativity, and the need to balance intellectual capacities with emotional and sensational understanding.
There are three good reasons to look at the Counter-Enlightenment and its relation to creativity. ...
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