24.262 | Spring 2004 | Undergraduate

Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology

Readings

Bohm, David. On Creativity. Edited by Lee Nichol. London, New York: Routledge, 1998. ISBN: 0415173965.

Koestler, Arthur. The Act of Creation. London: Pan Books, 1975. ISBN: 0140191917.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. 1st ed. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996. ISBN: 0060928204.

Rosner, Stanley, and Lawrence Abt. The Creative Experience. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1970. ISBN: 0670246573.

Shaw, Melvin P., and Mark A. Runco. Creativity and Affect. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Pub. Corp., 1994. ISBN: 1567500129.

Currie, Gregory, and Ian Ravenscroft. Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0198238096.

Corradi Fiumara, Gemma. The Mind’s Affective Life: a Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Inquiry. Hove (England), Philadelphia: Brunner-Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 1583911545.

Phillips, William, ed. Art and Psychoanalysis. New York: Criterion Books, 1957.

Modell, Arnold H. Imagination and the Meaningful Brain. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 026213425X.

Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975, 1911. ISBN: 0837179173.

———.  Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic. Translated by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell. Los Angeles: Green Integer, 1999. ISBN: 1892295024.

Mullarkey, John, ed. The New Bergson. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. ISBN: 0719055539.

Tomas, Vincent, ed. Creativity in the Arts. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964. ASIN: B000Q041S6.

Damasio, Antonio R. Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. 1st ed. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2003. ISBN: 0151005575.

Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion MachineDownload a version of this work from the MIT Media Lab.

Picard, Rosalind W. Affective Computing. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997. ISBN: 0262661152.

Boden, Margaret A., ed. Dimensions of Creativity. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994. ISBN: 0262023687.

Brann, Eva T. H. The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance. Savage, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1991. ISBN: 0847676501.

Singer, Irving. Feeling and imagination: The Vibrant Flux of Our Existence. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, c2001. ISBN: 0742512347.

———. Explorations in Love and Sex. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 074251238X.

Warnock, Mary. Imagination and Time. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994. ISBN: 0631190198.

Wechsler, Judith, ed. On Aesthetics in Science. Boston: Birkhäuser, 1988. ISBN: 0817633790.

Plantinga, Carl, and Greg M. Smith, eds. Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0801860105.

Churchland, Paul M., and Patricia S. Churchland. On the Contrary: Critical Essays, 1987-1997. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998. ISBN: 0262032546.

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