Notebooks of the Mind : Explorations of Thinking: Explorations of Thinking, Revised Edition - Softcover

John-Steiner, Vera

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195108965 ISBN 13: 9780195108965

Verlag: Oxford University Press USA, 1996

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Winner of the 1990 William James Award from the American Psychological Association

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Vera John-Steiner is Presidential Professor of Psycholinguists and Director of the Santa Fe Graduate Center at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

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In this revised edition of Notebooks of The Mind, Vera John-Steiner combines imaginative insight with scientific precision to produce a startling account of the human mind working at its highest potential. To approach her subject, John-Steiner goes directly to the source, assembling the thoughts of "experienced thinkers" - artists, philosophers, writers, and scientists able to reflect on their own imaginative patterns. More than fifty interviews (with figures ranging from Jessica Mitford to Aaron Copland), along with excerpts from the diaries, letters, and autobiographies of such gifted giants as Leo Tolstoy, Marie Curie, and Diego Rivera, among others, provide illuminating insights into creative activity. What emerges is an intriguing demonstration of how specific sociocultural circumstances interact with certain personality traits to encourage the creative mind. Now, with a new introduction, this award-winning book provides an uniquely broad-based study of the origins, development and fruits of human inspiration.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195108965
• ISBN 13: 9780195108965
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292
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