The priority of receptivity to creativity (or : I trusted you with the idea of me and you lost it)

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Kompridis, Nikolas. (2013). The priority of receptivity to creativity (or : I trusted you with the idea of me and you lost it). Critical Horizons. 13(3), pp. 337 - 350. https://doi.org/10.1558/crit.v13i3.337
AuthorsKompridis, Nikolas
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In this paper I address what Arendt called the “problem of the new”, or, as Castoriadis put it, the problem of how to make the new “the object of our praxis”. I argue that the problem of the new requires thinking about receptivity in a new way, making it normatively and epistemically prior to creativity. I illuminate my new approach to receptivity through detailed engagement with Russell Hoban’s brilliant novel, The Medusa Frequency.

Keywordsaesthetics; politics; receptivity
Year2013
JournalCritical Horizons
Journal citation13 (3), pp. 337 - 350
ISSN1440-9917
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1558/crit.v13i3.337
Page range337 - 350
Research GroupInstitute for Social Justice
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