"Technology... may play a role. But it is not as basic as human insights and is dependent on such insights," says John A. Eisenberg.
As a graduate student at the University of Toronto in the 1960s, he listened intently as Marshall McLuhan said that the most important task of scholars was to explain change.
In this book Eisenberg says, "I see the major social changes in terms of the creative insights of humans that have transfrormed the way we see the world, how we feel, what we believe and how we act.
"And I maintain that such transformations are indeterminate, come out of the blue and are unexplained...
"A major thrust of this book is to move away from and suggest an alternative to the mechanistic, deterministic and rationalist ways we view creativity."
In doing that Eisenberg has created a fascinating look into the world's most creative minds, and how they produced changes in such fields as music, literature, science and politics.


John A. Eisenberg is Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto). He has taught courses on social issues, moral education, the nature of art, history, legal reasoning and especially on creativity. Recent publications include The Limits of Reason, and The Triumph of Imagination: Creativity in Sport.


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