The “Creativity Crisis” as a Mind in Crisis

A Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Position

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6072093
AutoresMohamad El Maouch (0000-0003-0376-9280, autor de correspondencia), Zheng Jin (0000-0003-3191-4473, University of California, Davis), Kaibin Zhao (0000-0002-9320-3901), Yujia Zhang (0000-0002-0740-6383, Krirk University)
Año2024
Volumen58
Número2
Páginas433-461
Fecha de publicación2024-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIntegrative Psychological and Behavioral Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1932-4502 • E-ISSN: 1936-3567
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s12124-023-09808-6
PMID37728842
OpenAlexW4386878831
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas150

Creativity is considered a global ability and crucial for ordinary-daily and special (e.g., science, aesthetic) activities. In this paper, from the position of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), we expand the debate about the creativity crisis and hypothesize that the noted crisis is only the tip of the iceberg represented by the crisis of the postmodern' incoherent mind, reflecting the crisis of self-realization as a leading activity in the individualistic epoch. By investigating creativity as an original functionality of the mind, two key titles are stressed. One is the halting of the activity system; two, it is the inconsistency between the objective meanings sphere and the subjective sense-making sphere. Both titles represent the epistemological rupture embedded in the mainstream culture and praxis rooted in the internal contradictions of individualism and post-modernism as worldview and practices, leading the mind to close its eyes on the contradictions which are the crucial source of grasping the internal content (abstraction and generalization) of the given experience, hence, a crucial source of creativity. Thus, it is considered that not only creativity is in crisis, but also the coherence of the mind as well, as an extreme result of the shattered postmodern existence

Aesthetics · Creativity · Epistemology · Individualism · Mainstream · Political science · Postmodernism · Sociology · Theology · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity