The Demiurgic Imagination in Art and Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11327203 |
|---|---|
| Authors | STEPHEN CRITES (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 295 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/303154 |
| OpenAlex | W2331316911 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
According to the so-called cosmogonic myth, the world of our experience took shape when a craftsmanly god, such as the demiourgos (artificer, craftsman) of Plato's Timaeus, gave form to primordial chaos. I am referring, of course, to the myth of creation we find with many variations throughout the ancient Near East, and even turning up independently but recognizably in geographically remote cultures. There are other types of creation myth, but this one in particular has enough resonance in human experience that we need not be surprised to find people inventing or discovering it afresh. One of the things that is so handsome about this myth is that it exemplifies the very process it describes. It tells a story, and such storytelling is one of the prime devices through which our world of experience is constituted. In this sense it is a myth about the myth-making process itself. Telling a story about giving form to the chaos is in fact an act by which the chaos is given form. But that is a point to which we will return. First I would like to offer an interpretation of the myth. I have no idea whether this interpre
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Imagination · Sociology · Historical and Architectural Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |