Discourse on Novelty and Creation

Carl R. Hausman is Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. His writings in aesthetics and metaphysics have been published in several journals and books.

• Introduction: The Problem, its Background, and a Sketch of its TreatmentI. Production and Radical Creation A. Novelty Proper 1. Individuality and Radical Newness2. Form a. Form, structures, and valuationb. Form and novelty, some problems and puzzles B. Novelty Proper and Creative Acts 1. Imitation and Craftsmanship2. Creative Process and Critical Control3. Creative Achievement and Duplication of Novelty C. Value and Creativity 1. Instrumental Value2. Instrumental Value and Tradition3. Inerent Value II. Spontaneity: The Paradox and the Possibility of Explanation A. General Remarks about ExplanationB. The Paradox of Creativity 1. Whitehead and Explanation2. The Paradox in the Context of the Husserlian Account of Consciousness3. Nicolai Hartmann's Acknowledgment of the Radical Puzzle C. The Reality of Spontaneity and the Challenge of Determinism 1. Positivism2. Teleological Determinism3. Mechanistic Determinism D. Intelligibility and the Resources of LanguageIII. Language and the Aesthetic Structure of Novelty A. Originative Speech as Oblique Expression 1. Language and Speech2. Speech and Implements B. Speech and Metaphors1. Indirect Speech and Metaphor in Art, Science, and Philosophy2. Metaphors and the Organic Character of Art3. Metaphors as Constitutive Negations4. Metaphors and "Family Resemblances" C. Metaphors and the Intelligibility of Created Objects1. Metaphorical Expression and PAradox2. The Structure of Novelty3. Intelligibility and FamiliarityIV. Fundamental Paradox and Intelligibility A. The AbsurdB. Two Loci of the AbsurdC. The Second Model of IntelligibilityD. The Possibility of a Third Model of IntelligibilityIndex

"Carl Hausman's Discourse on Novelty and Creation is an extremely subtle analysis of the problem of novelty in art, and the catholicity of Hausman's reading makes this work stand out from all other treatments, usually analytical, of this subject. I am impressed with the thoroughness and imagination of this book." — Robert C. Neville