29 June 2015
A Critical Theory of Creativity: Utopia, Aesthetics, Atheism and Design
A Critical Theory of Creativity: Utopia, Aesthetics, Atheism and Design - a new book by Dr Richard Howells
Dr Richard Howells' new book A Critical Theory of Creativity: Utopia, Aesthetics, Atheism and Design has just been released.
It argues that a Utopian drive is aesthetically encoded within the language of form. Combining multidisciplinary theory with case studies ranging from planned communities to the relationship between Navajo theology and design, the book demonstrates how humankind is striving to fashion a better world from the raw materials we inherit.
Slavoj Žižek described the book as, “a brilliant and magisterial overview of Bloch’s continued importance for today’s dystopian world...”
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Sociology