The discontent of the decivilization: creativity as reality principle
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https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.2021.02Keywords:
creativity, civilization, myth, reflection, articulationAbstract
The aim of this contribution intends to insist on the lights and the shadows of the creativity in the latemodern societies.Today is the core of the social normality. The creativity is the new reality principle. Its emergency is explained across the victory of Eros over Prometheus, as already suggested Marcuse against Freud. Nevertheless, currently is the origin of the new cultural discontent. If in the victorian modernity the dominance of Prometheus over Eros was the source of the discontent, today Eros erodes the need for social understanding. In the new discontent Eros is the embodiment of a partial creativity that only search for emotions with the support of algorithmic language of the digital technologies. Its dominance hides others creative possibilities as, for example, the rational deliberation and the utopian experience. Thus, the problem of the decivilization appears in the horizon due to the spread of defensive identities and the decline of the other in the social life. In face of this challenge only a comprehensive creativity guarantees the possibility of produce affections, but also social laws, rules and inclusive identifications.
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