Creating Minds: An Anatomy Of Creativity Seen Through The Lives Of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, And Gandhi
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Gardner Howard E Creating Minds An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud Einstein Picasso Stravinsky Eliot Graham and Gandhi Basic Books (2011)
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Table of Contents Praise OTHER BOOKS BY HOWARD GARDNER Title Page Dedication Acknowledgments Preface
PART I - INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 - CHANCE ENCOUNTERS IN WARTIME ZURICH SEVEN CREATIVE THINKERS THE PURPOSES OF THIS BOOK ORGANIZING THEMES THE STUDY OF CONTEMPORARIES THE ILLUMINATION OF AN ERA THE MODERN ERA Chapter 2 - APPROACHES TO CREATIVITY THE STUDY OF CREATIVITY SHADOWS THE STUDY OF INTELLIGENCE COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO CREATIVITY APPROACHES IN TERMS OF PERSONALITY AND MOTIVATION THE HISTORIOMETRIC APPROACH MY APPROACH TO CREATIVITY ORGANIZING THEMES REVISITED ORGANIZING FRAMEWORK ISSUES FOR EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION EMERGING THEMES
PART II - THE CREATORS OF THE MODERN ERA Chapter 3 - SIGMUND FREUD: ALONE WITH THE WORLD THE FIRST DISCIPLES BACKGROUND AND EARLY CHILDHOOD FREUD’S UNIVERSAL GIFTS A “FIRST” CAREER IN NEUROLOGY CHARCOT AND THE MOVEMENT TO PSYCHIATRY LONELINESS AND CONFIDANTS THE DOMAIN AND FIELD ON THE EVE OF FREUD’S BREAKTHROUGH THE KEY IDEAS OF THE FREUDIAN REVOLUTION THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS: FREUD IN 1900 THE VIENNESE SETTING FREUD AS A LEADER: BROADENING OF THE NETWORK Chapter 4 - ALBERT EINSTEIN: THE PERENNIAL CHILD PUZZLES OF CHILDHOOD MASTERING THE DOMAIN THE SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND: FROM GALILEO TO LORENTZ EINSTEIN’S “OBJECT-CENTERED” MIND THE SPECIAL YEAR AND THE SPECIAL THEORY RELATIVITY: IMMEDIATE FATE BECOMING A WORLD FIGURE: TWO STRUGGLES THE GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM INTUITIVE AND REFLECTIVE WISDOM INTERLUDE ONE Chapter 5 - PABLO PICASSO: PRODIGIOUSNESS AND BEYOND
THE PHENOMENON OF THE PRODIGY PICASSO AS PRODIGY THE YOUNG ARTIST IN PARIS LES DEMOISELLES D’AVIGNON: TOWARD AN AVOWEDLY EXPERIMENTAL STYLE THE PARTNERSHIP THAT MADE CUBISM AFTER CUBISM: LIFE AS CELEBRITY GUERNICA: THE SELF-DECLARED MASTERPIECE AN AGED PRODIGY Chapter 6 - IGOR STRAVINSKY: THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF MUSIC THE POLITICAL FACE OF CREATION A RUSSIAN CHILDHOOD MUSIC AT THE CENTER EARLY TRIUMPHS AND A FATEFUL ENCOUNTER THE BALLET MASTERED: THE FIREBIRD AND PETROUCHKA LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS: COMPOSING SOUND FOR A NEW CENTURY LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS: THE PERFORMANCE AND THE AFTERMATH FROM POETICS TO POLITICS LES NOCES: A DIFFERENT KIND OF MASTERPIECE A FRESH RELATION TO THE MUSIC OF THE PAST THE MATURE THINKER AND PERSON FINAL MASTERY Chapter 7 - T. S. ELIOT: THE MARGINAL MASTER THE WASTE LAND RECOVERED THE MANY STRANDS IN ELIOT’S BACKGROUND OUT OF JOINT AT HARVARD NEW ATTEMPTS AT LIFE TWO POETS JOIN FORCES SETTLING DOWN IN EUROPE THE WASTE LAND: BACKGROUND AND COMPOSITION REACTIONS TO THE WASTE LAND
ELIOT AS A PUBLIC PERSON ELIOT AS A LITERARY FIGURE IN MIDDLE LIFE ELIOT IN LATER LIFE INTERLUDE TWO Chapter 8 - MARTHA GRAHAM: DISCOVERING THE DANCE OF AMERICA THE DOMAIN OF DANCE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY MARTHA GRAHAM’S AMERICA AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY A NOVEL CAREER THE NEW DANCE THE AMBIENCE OF THE MODERN DANCE DOMAIN THE FIELD PROMOTES MODERN DANCE ATTEMPTS AT COLLABORATION MARTHA GRAHAM’S DANCING IN THE EARLY 1930s AN AMERICAN PHASE PEAKS AND VALLEYS OF CLASSICAL PROPORTIONS A LIFE IN DANCE DECLINE AND RENEWAL GRAHAM’S ACHIEVEMENTS Chapter 9 - MAHATMA GANDHI: A HOLD UPON OTHERS INDIA UNDER BRITISH RULE GANDHI, A MORALISTIC CHILD A CASCADE OF LIFE OPTIONS MATURING IN SOUTH AFRICA LEARNING THE LAY OF THE LAND IN INDIA THE PRINCIPLES OF SATYAGRAHA THE PERSONAL SIDE OF GANDHI A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEADER LAST YEARS: THE MAN AND THE LEGEND INTERLUDE THREE
PART III - CONCLUSION
Chapter 10 - CREATIVITY ACROSS THE DOMAINS REVISITING THE ORGANIZING FRAMEWORK A PORTRAIT OF THE EXEMPLARY CREATOR MAJOR ISSUES: A REPRISE ASYNCHRONIES ASSESSED THE TWO EMERGING THEMES REMAINING QUESTION