Do You like book The Creators: A History Of Heroes Of The Imagination (1993)?
I won this book as a prize in my History of Psychology class in college. We had to come to class dressed as one of the psychological figures we'd learned about that semester. Most came as Freud or Erikson, with a few Skinners thrown in. I came as Phinneus Gage, a mild-mannered railroad worker from Vermont who got stabbed in the head with a tamping iron and lived, but became such an asshole no one wanted to be around him anymore, thus giving researchers insight into the goings on of the temporal lobe. I came to class in bloodied railroad-striped overalls and fashioned a tamping iron out of cardboard that I affixed to my head. I started yelling at everyone in my class, using a plethora of dirty words in my best Vermont accent. I won. Hands down. But I still haven't read this book...
—Laurel
Kan godt lide ideen, som jeg opfatter den. Der er tale om en temmelig positivistik tilgang, hvor der overordnet skelnes temmelig hårdt mellem "realiteter" og fantasier. I denne bog beskrives fantasierne. Herunder hører religion, kultur. Fokus ligger på den store litteratur, men man kunne let udvide med populærkultur. Glæder mig til at se, hvad der kommer ud af det. Har en fornemmelse af, at der ikke rigtigt kommer noget andet ud end beskrivelser af en masse fantasier og de materiale forhold, som de eksisterer samtidig med. Tvivler således på, at forholdet mellem fantasi og "realiteter" vil blive behandlet eksplicit ret meget. Ok med mig. Det er en moppedreng og det taler sikkert ned for bogen. Vi får se...
—Kåre
Boorstin's book is a gem for reading about inspirational lives. As he did in The Discoverers he ranges throughout history focusing on lives of individual geniuses. In this case the imaginative heroes who contributed to our civilization through spiritual, artistic, music, literary imagination and more. The breadth of the book is literally breathtaking and it is valuable as a bedside read or a reference work. I personally find inspiration in books like this for further study of artists with whom I am unfamiliar. Boorstin, however, is possible to read and enjoy for his own imaginative flair.
—James