The Gospel of Creativity

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/nlh.2022.0011

J. de Stefano

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Abstract

Abstract:This essay is about the New Thought movement, a spiritualist trend at the turn of the twentieth century which taught that human creativity is the very substance of divinity. It focuses on the career of New Thought's most famous preacher, a popular philosopher named Ralph Waldo Trine, who encouraged readers to see that "thoughts are forces," and "through them we have creative power." New Thought's faith in the power of creative thinking helped turn creativity into the popular obsession it remains today. Creativity has become a term of art for the tech industry, and more broadly, it has come to be seen as an economic asset; the history of New Thought helps explain how this happened. Trine and his colleagues preached a gospel of creativity, but in doing so they heralded what one commentator has called our current "gospel of work."

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创造力的福音

摘要：这篇文章是关于新思想运动的，这是二十世纪之交的一种唯心主义思潮，它教导人们创造力是神性的本质。它聚焦于新思想最著名的传教士，一位名叫拉尔夫·沃尔多·特林的流行哲学家的职业生涯，他鼓励读者看到“思想是力量”，“通过它们，我们拥有创造力”。新思想对创造性思维力量的信仰帮助将创造力变成了今天仍然流行的痴迷。创造力已经成为科技行业的一个艺术术语，更广泛地说，它已经被视为一种经济资产；新思想史有助于解释这是如何发生的。Trine和他的同事们宣扬创造力的福音，但在这样做的过程中，他们宣布了一位评论员所说的我们当前的“工作福音”

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1.50

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11.10%

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期刊介绍： New Literary History focuses on questions of theory, method, interpretation, and literary history. Rather than espousing a single ideology or intellectual framework, it canvasses a wide range of scholarly concerns. By examining the bases of criticism, the journal provokes debate on the relations between literary and cultural texts and present needs. A major international forum for scholarly exchange, New Literary History has received six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.