Creative Collaboration

Author: Vera John-SteinerPaperback:Publisher: Oxford University Press, USAISBN 10: 0195307704ISBN 13: 978-0195307702Hardcover:Publisher: Oxford University PressISBN 10: 0195067940ISBN 13: 978-0195067941Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker" dominates our collective imagination as the purest representation of human inquiry--the lone, stoic thinker. But while the Western belief in individualism romanticizes this perception of the solitary creative process, the reality is that scientific and artistic forms emerge from the joint thinking, passionate conversations, emotional connections and shared struggles common in meaningful relationships. In Creative Collaboration, Vera John-Steiner offers rare and fascinating glimpses into the dynamic alliances from which some of our most important scholarly ideas, scientific theories and art forms are born. Within these pages we witness the creative process unfolding in the intimate relationships of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Henry Miller and A