Creative Interchange - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809310325 ISBN 13: 9780809310326

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982

Synopsis

Henry Nelson Wieman’s (1884–1975) most distinctive philosophical contributions are his identification of creative interchange as the ultimate process in human experience through which people and their institutions are able to create, sustain, improve, and cor­rect their value perspectives and, equally important, his description of creative inter­change in psychological, sociological, histor­ical, religious, and institutional contexts as subject inquiry and the experimental test of consequences.

This massive collection, thirty-three orig­inal essays with an appendix and index, rep­resents the first formal attempt to consider fully the interdisciplinary implications of creative interchange. Following an introduc­tion, the book is structured into six sections, beginning with historical studies on the de­velopment of Wieman’s philosophy of creativity. With this information as a base the subsequent five sections treat: (1)his metaphysics and theory of knowledge; (2)his the­ory of value; (3)creative interchange in the context of rhetoric and literary criticism; (4)creative interchange as a guide for social phi­losophy; and (5) creative interchange as re­lated to current philosophic trends. The essayists include prominent philosophers, such as Charles Hartshorne, Lewis E.Hahn, and S. Morris Eames, as well as emerging scholars who have responded to Wieman’s conception of creative interchange.

About this title

About the Author

John A. Broyer is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He conducted what was to prove to be Henry Nelson Wieman’s final interview be­fore his death on June 19, 1975.

William S. Minor is Director Emeritus, Foundation for Philosophy of Creativity, Inc., and is author of Creativity in Henry Nelson Wieman.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809310325
• ISBN 13: 9780809310326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 568
• Editor: Broyer John A., Minor William S.