Genius and creativity: Fundamentals of theory and psychology of creativity

In the book proposed by the attention of readers, its author, a well -known domestic historian of philosophy and psychologist S.O. Gruzhenberg, conducts a theoretical analysis of the mechanisms of the creative process. The author describes the theory of aesthetic perception, transformation and catharsis, distinguishes the rationalistic and mystical concepts of creativity, analyzes their methodological prerequisites in order to build a positive theory of creativity on critically recycled principles of objective study of the human person. The application contains materials on the psychology of creativity: letters and profiles sent by the author with famous scientists, writers and artists, representing interest for both psychologists and historians of Russian literature and art.

The book is addressed to psychologists, aesthetics philosophers, culturalists, all readers who are interested in the problems posed in it