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Chung-Yuan Chang. Immeasurable potentialities of creativity

2011, In Chung-Yuan Chang (ed.). Creativity and Taoism: A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art, and Poetry. London & Philadelphia: Singing Dragon.

Categories: Aesthetic Imagination, Aesthetics, Asian Philosophy, Chinese Aesthetics, Classical Daoism, Creativity, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophical Traditions, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion, Value Theory

Keywords: China, Chinese aesthetics, Daoism, art, creativity

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Added by: Meilin Chinn

Summary: A study of the Taoist (Daoist) concept of creativity as a non-instrumental process in which all things create themselves. Chang argues for the foundational place of this understanding of self-emergent creativity in the aesthetics of Chinese art.

Comment: Can be used as both an introduction to Daoism and to Chinese aesthetics.

Related reading:

Laozi, Tao Te Ching. D. C. Lau, trans. New York: Addison Wesley, 2000.

Can be used as both an introduction to Daoism and to Chinese aesthetics.

Related reading:

Laozi, Tao Te Ching. D. C. Lau, trans. New York: Addison Wesley, 2000.

Difficulty: Intermediate

Recommended use: Specialised reading

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