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Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2004

This course is a seminar on creativity in art, science, and technology. We discuss how these pursuits are jointly dependent on affective as well as cognitive elements in human nature. We study feeling and imagination in relation to principles of idealization, consummation, and the aesthetic values that give meaning to science and technology as well as literature and the other arts. Readings in philosophy, psychology, and literature are part of the course.

Readings

  • Bohm, David. On Creativity. Edited by Lee Nichol. London, New York: Routledge, 1998. ISBN: 0415173965.
    Listed reading
  • Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation . London: Pan Books, 1975. ISBN: 0140191917.
    Listed reading
  • Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention . 1st ed. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996. ISBN: 0060928204.
    Listed reading
  • Rosner, Stanley, and Lawrence Abt. The Creative Experience . New York: Grossman Publishers, 1970. ISBN: 0670246573.
    Listed reading
  • Shaw, Melvin P., and Mark A. Runco. Creativity and Affect . Norwood, NJ: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1994. ISBN: 1567500129.
    Listed reading
  • Currie, Gregory, and Ian Ravenscroft. Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology . New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0198238096.
    Listed reading
  • Corradi Fiumara, Gemma. The Mind’s Affective Life: a Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Inquiry . Hove (England), Philadelphia: Brunner-Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 1583911545.
    Listed reading
  • Phillips, William, ed. Art and Psychoanalysis . New York: Criterion Books, 1957.
    Listed reading
  • Modell, Arnold H. Imagination and the Meaningful Brain . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 026213425X.
    Listed reading
  • Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution . Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975, 1911. ISBN: 0837179173.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic . Translated by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell. Los Angeles: Green Integer, 1999. ISBN: 1892295024.
    Listed reading
  • Mullarkey, John, ed. The New Bergson . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. ISBN: 0719055539.
    Listed reading
  • Tomas, Vincent, ed. Creativity in the Arts . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964. ASIN: B000Q041S6.
    Listed reading
  • Damasio, Antonio R. Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain . 1st ed. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2003. ISBN: 0151005575.
    Listed reading
  • Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine . Download a version of this work from the MIT Media Lab. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Picard, Rosalind W. Affective Computing . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997. ISBN: 0262661152.
    Listed reading
  • Boden, Margaret A., ed. Dimensions of Creativity . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994. ISBN: 0262023687.
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  • Brann, Eva T. H. The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance . Savage, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1991. ISBN: 0847676501.
    Listed reading
  • Singer, Irving. Feeling and imagination: The Vibrant Flux of Our Existence . Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, c2001. ISBN: 0742512347.
    Listed reading
  • ———. Explorations in Love and Sex . Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 074251238X.
    Listed reading
  • Warnock, Mary. Imagination and Time . Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994. ISBN: 0631190198.
    Listed reading
  • Wechsler, Judith, ed. On Aesthetics in Science . Boston: Birkhäuser, 1988. ISBN: 0817633790.
    Listed reading
  • Plantinga, Carl, and Greg M. Smith, eds. Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0801860105.
    Listed reading
  • Churchland, Paul M., and Patricia S. Churchland. On the Contrary: Critical Essays, 1987-1997 . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 0262032546.
    Listed reading
  • Singer, Irving. Feeling and Imagination: The Vibrant Flux of Our Existence . Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. ISBN: 0742512347.
    Required
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