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John Hope Mason, Mason John Hope

The Value of Creativity - The Origins and Emergence of a Modern Belief

English · Hardback

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John Hope Mason

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In the middle of the 19th century a new value began to appear in Western Europe - the belief that (in the words of Matthew Arnold) "the exercise of a creative activity is the true function of man". This text gives an account of the stages by which, and the reasons why, this development occurred.

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Authors	John Hope Mason, Mason John Hope
Publisher	Taylor and Francis

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	07.02.2003

EAN	9780754607601
ISBN	978-0-7546-0760-1
No. of pages	316
Weight	603 g
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries History of Ideas, Europe, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, HISTORY / Social History, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy

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