Plans for research 1

Anna-Teresa TYMIENIECKA

Plans for Research (continued)

     c     The provisional outline of the treatise is as follows:
INTRODUCTION. The study of creative experience as an introduction to a general aesthetic theory. The aesthetic element in human creativity.

PART I. THE CONSTITUTED WORLD AND THE CREATIVE PHENOMENON
     c     Chapter 1. The experiental system

1. The dynamic resources of creation
2. The creative inwardness and the bodily system
3. Provisional outline of the ‘creative context’

     c     Chapter 2. The creative vision

1. The workings of imagination and memory
2. Objective structural laws: their generative power and limitations (the theme, dramatic situation, unity of problems)
3. Creation and invetion
4. The ‘raw stuff and poetry’
5. Image versus idea

PART II. THE LIFE OF FORMS: A DEBATE BETWEEN CREATION AND CONSTITUTION
     c     Chapter 3. Structure in art and science

1. Symmetry in science, art and nature (topology in science and art.)
2. Creative principles in science
3. The aim of science and of art as changing with the evolution of mankind: dynamic conception of structure
4. Can art interpret science?

     c     Chapter 4. The below and the above of the creative inwardness

1. Creation as the transition between two phases of the lived world
2. The precariousness of the creative process
3. The creative agent as part of the life-world
4. The role of ideas in the constitutive and in the creative process
5. The problem of the creative a priori: the description of the creative perception
6. Originality and creative freedom

     c     Chapter 5. The constituted world becomes problematic