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Creating Minds : An Anatomy of Creativity As Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso...

ISBN: 9780465027743 | 0465027741

Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date: 12/6/2011

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

The man who revolutionized our understanding of intelligence now gives us a pathbreaking view of creativity, along with riveting portraits of seven figures who each reinvented an area of human endeavor. Understanding their diverse achievements not only sheds light on the nature of creativity but also elucidates the "modern era"--the times that formed them and that they in turn helped to define.

Since it was first published in 1993, Creating Mindshas served as a peerless guide to the creative self. Now available as ... MORE

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface to the 2011 Edition	p. xiii
Introduction
Chance Encounters in Wartime Zurich	p. 3
Approaches to Creativity	p. 19
The Creators of the Modern Era
Sigmund Freud: Alone with the World	p. 47
Albert Einstein: The Perennial Child	p. 83
Interlude One	p. 124
Pablo Picasso: Prodigiousnes... MOREs and Beyond	p. 127
Igor Stravinsky: The Poetics and Politics of Music	p. 173
T. S. Eliot: The Marginal Master	p. 211
Interlude Two	p. 243
Martha Graham: Discovering the Dance of America	p. 247
Mahatma Gandhi: A Hold upon Others	p. 289
Interlude Three	p. 328
Conclusion
Creativity Across the Domains	p. 333
Epilogue: The Modern Era and Beyond	p. 363
Notes	p. 377
Bibliography	p. 405
Name Index	p. 421
Subject Index	p. 429
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Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981, the Prince of Asturias Prize in Social Science in 2011, and twenty-nine honorary degrees, he is the author of more than twenty books. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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