Book

The Cult of Creativity

A Surprisingly Recent History

Samuel W. Franklin

2023

The University of Chicago Press

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Book Review

How Corporate America’s Obsession With Creativity Wrecked the World and Brought Us Elon Musk

Samuel W. Franklin’s latest book explains how we sold ourselves out to a fake virtue.

by Timothy Noah via The New Republic on December 30, 2023
Book Review

The Corporatization of Creativity

Our ways of thinking about thinking are a product of postwar business culture.

by Charlie Tyson via The Chronicle of Higher Education on July 24, 2023
Book Review

The Origins of Creativity

The concept was devised in postwar America, in response to the cultural and commercial demands of the era. Now we’re stuck with it.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on April 17, 2023

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