Vlad Glaveanu is Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Psychology and Director of the Webster Center for Creativity and Innovation at Webster University Geneva, Switzerland, as well as Associate Professor II at SLATE, University of Bergen, Norway. He obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics. His work develops a sociocultural account of creativity and imagination, collaboration, and perspective-taking.

The Creativity Reader is a necessary companion for anyone interested in the historical roots of contemporary ideas about creativity, innovation, and imagination. It brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with choosing, introducing, and commenting on seminal texts focused on creativity, invention, genius, and imagination from the period of 1850 to 1950. This volume is at once retrospective and prospective: it revisits old ideas, assesses their importance today, and explores their potential for the future.

Through its wide historical focus, this Reader challenges the widespread assumption that creativity research is mainly a product of the second half of the twentieth century. Featuring primary sources interpreted through the lenses of leading contemporary scholars, The Creativity Reader testifies to the incredible richness of this field of study, helps us understand its current developments, and anticipates its future directions. The texts included here, many of them little known or forgotten, are part of the living history of creativity studies. Indeed, an examination of these seminal papers helps the new generation of creativity and innovation researchers to be mindful of the past and unafraid to explore it.

Chapter 1 Revisiting the Foundations of Creativity Studies
Vlad P. Glaveanu
PART ONE The Creative Process
Chapter 2 The Art of (Creative) Thought: Graham Wallas on the Creative Process
Teresa M. Amabile
Chapter 3 Science and Method, Henri Poincaré
Giovanni Emanuele Corazza and Todd Lubart
Chapter 4 Inspiration or Perspiration? Reflections on Edwin Prindle's "The Art of Inventing"
David H. Cropley
PART TWO Creativity Assessment
Chapter 5 Dr. Laura M. Chassell Toops: Forgotten Pioneer of Creativity Assessment
James C. Kaufman
Chapter 6 Sir Francis Galton and the "Statistics of Mental Imagery"
Maciej Karwowski and Dorota M. Jankowska
Chapter 7 Measuring Ideation in the 1900s: The Contribution of Alfred Binet
Baptiste Barbot and Jacques-Henri Guignard
PART THREE Creative Thinking
Chapter 8 The Impact and Pitfalls of "Real Thinking": Wertheimer's Continuing Influence
Michael Hanchett Hanson
Chapter 9 Functional Fixedness, Creativity and Problem-Solving, Karl Duncker
Vlad P. Glaveanu
Chapter 10 Abductive Reasoning and the Genesis of New Ideas, Charles S. Peirce
Ronald A. Beghetto
PART FOUR Beyond Creative Thinking
Chapter 11 Imitation and Creativity, Gabriel Tarde and James Mark Baldwin
Vlad P. Glaveanu
Chapter 12 Tragedies of Actualization
Michael Hanchett Hanson
Chapter 13 Do We Make Our Own Luck? Reflections on Ernst Mach's Analysis of Invention and Discovery
David H. Cropley
PART FIVE Creativity Development and Education
Chapter 14 Imagination and Creativity in Childhood, L.S. Vygotsky
Seana Moran and Vera John-Steiner
Chapter 15 The Meaning of Play, Erik H. Erikson
Jessica D. Hoffmann and Rose H. Miller
Chapter 16 Creativity in the Classroom, John Dewey
Beth A. Hennessey
PART SIX Genius and Creativity
Chapter 17 The Nature and Nurture of Creative Genius, Francis Galton
Dean Keith Simonton
Chapter 18 On Great Thoughts, William James
Dean Keith Simonton
Chapter 19 Genius and Eminence, Catharine M. Cox
Dean Keith Simonton
PART SEVEN Creativity, Imagination, and Day-Dreaming
Chapter 20 On "Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming" by Sigmund Freud (1908)
Tania Zittoun
Chapter 21 Théodule Ribot's Essay on Creative Imagination: A Plea For the Study of Multiple Creativities
Christophe Mouchiroud and Todd Lubart
Chapter 22 On Bartlett's (1928) Types of Imagination
Tania Zittoun
PART EIGHT Creativity in Art and Design
Chapter 23 Creativity as a Process: John Dewey's "Art as Experience"
Keith Sawyer
Chapter 24 Literary Creative Imagination, Alfred Binet
Todd Lubart and Christophe Mouchiroud
Chapter 25 Skinner on Poetry, Fiction, and Design: An Implicit Science of Creativity
Mark A. Runco
PART NINE Creativity in Groups and Interactions
Chapter 26 Social Creativity and the Emergent Self, George Herbert Mead
Vlad P. Glaveanu
Chapter 27 Group Dynamics and Team Creativity: The Contribution of Kurt Lewin to the Study of Teams, Creativity, and Innovation
Roni Reiter-Palmon and Salvatore Leone
Chapter 28 The Idea in Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bakhtin
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PART TEN Creativity, Culture, and Society
Chapter 29 Configurations of Culture Growth, Alfred L. Kroeber
Dean Keith Simonton
Chapter 30 Sociability and Creativity, The Sociology of Georg Simmel
Vlad P. Glaveanu
Chapter 31 Authoritarianism and Creativity: Else Frenkel-Brunswik and "The Authoritarian Personality"
Alfonso Montuori
PART ELEVEN Critical Reflections
Chapter 32 The Recurring Challenge of Nietzche
Michael Hanchett Hanson
Chapter 33 Introducing New Voices to the Creativity Studies Conversation: W.E.B. Du Bois, Double-Consciousness, and "The Souls of Black Folk"
Edward P. Clapp
Chapter 34 Beyond Creative Destruction, Joseph Schumpeter
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