KEY CONCEPTS OF CREATIVITY: FROM ANTIQUITY TO PRESENT
Journal Title: Advanced Linguistics - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
The problem of creativity has an interdisciplinary character. Psychologists, philosophers, culturologists, educators, sociologists, literary critics and linguists are engaged in the study of creativity. Different epochs have their distinctive theories on creativity. In antiquity creativity was considered as a special kind of being. Creativity was understood as a human desire for the reproduction of perfect patterns, as God-like art. Only God could create ex nihilo (“from nothing”). The artist was to reveal the laws of nature, follow and imitate them. However, the poet was free. In the Middle Ages, creativity was exclusively an attribute of God, people were considered not to be capable of it. In the Renaissance, understanding of creativity was twofold: sublime and mundane. In the New Age, creativity was seen as a fundamental prerequisite of consciousness and productive ability of imagination. Novelty determined creativity. Only in the nineteenth century, creativity became solely an attribute of man. In the twentieth century, creativity was possible in all spheres of human creation. In the twenty-first century the democratization of creativity is taking place. According to the hypothesis of the author of the article, creativity is an immanent sign of the universal cultural space. The genesis of scientific views on the essence of the concept of “creativity” is traced; evolutionary tendencies in the interpretation of the phenomenon of creativity are revealed; linguo-philosophical basis of creativity is found.
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Liudmyla Korotkova
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- DOI 10.20535/2617-5339.2018.2.158382
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