Creativity and Time: A Sociological Exploration

Juan A. Roche Cárcel is a professor of sociology of culture and the arts at the University of Alicante (Spain). He is the author of numerous books and articles on culture and arts and president of the committee for the sociology of emotions at the Spanish Federation of Sociology (FES).

• Part I Introduction.- 1 Originality or from the Origin to the Originary.- Part II Creative Categories of the Origin.- 2 Mythical Bases for a Sociological Definition of the Concept of Creativity.- 3 Creativity: Sociocultural Order and Chaos, Memory of the Past, and Projection of the Future.- 4 The Originality of Axial Civilizations and the Free Play of History5 The Ages of Creativity.- Part III Creative Categories of the Originary.- 6 From Creative Capitalism to Old Age7 Creative Work in the Global Economy of Risk and Uncertainty.- 8 The Connection Between Creative Economy and the Crisis of Representative Democracy.- Part IV Final Coda: Broken Creativity.- 9 Creativity Without Time.