Creating Minds

An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Ghandi

By: Howard Gardner

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Paperback | 6 December 2011 | Edition Number 1

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This peerless classic guide to the creative self uses portraits of seven extraordinary individuals to reveal the patterns that drive the creative process -- to demonstrate how circumstance also plays an indispensable role in creative success.

Howard Gardner changed the way the world thinks about intelligence. In his classic work Frames of Mind, he undermined the common notion that intelligence is a single capacity that every human being possesses to a greater or lesser extent. With Creating Minds, Gardner gives us a path breaking view of creativity, along with riveting portraits of seven figures who each reinvented an area of human endeavor.

Using as a point of departure his concept of seven "intelligences," ranging from musical intelligence to the intelligence involved in understanding oneself, Gardner examines seven extraordinary individuals -- Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, T.S. Eliot, Martha Graham, and Mahatma Gandhi -- each an outstanding exemplar of one kind of intelligence. Understanding the nature of their disparate creative breakthroughs not only sheds light on their achievements but also helps to elucidate the "modern era" -- the times that formed these creators and which they in turn helped to define. While focusing on the moment of each creator''s most significant breakthrough, Gardner discovers patterns crucial to our understanding of the creative process.

Creative people feature unusual combinations of intelligence and personality, and Gardner delineates the indispensable role of the circumstances in which an individual''s creativity can thrive -- and how extraordinary creativity almost always carries with it extraordinary human costs.

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface to the 2011 Edition	p. xiii
Introduction
Chance Encounters in Wartime Zurich	p. 3
Approaches to Creativity	p. 19
The Creators of the Modern Era
Sigmund Freud: Alone with the World	p. 47
Albert Einstein: The Perennial Child	p. 83
Interlude One	p. 124
Pablo Picasso: Prodigiousness and Beyond	p. 127
Igor Stravinsky: The Poetics and Politics of Music	p. 173
T. S. Eliot: The Marginal Master	p. 211
Interlude Two	p. 243
Martha Graham: Discovering the Dance of America	p. 247
Mahatma Gandhi: A Hold upon Others	p. 289
Interlude Three	p. 328
Conclusion
Creativity Across the Domains	p. 333
Epilogue: The Modern Era and Beyond	p. 363
Notes	p. 377
Bibliography	p. 405
Name Index	p. 421
Subject Index	p. 429
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