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This chapter is intended to introduce the epistemological and interpretive foundations of creativity from the approximation of Bakhtin’s ideas, and other dialogical authors, to the theoretical models of cultural psychology that investigate the emergence of the novel. In this chapter, creativity is understood as a social, semiotic, dialogical and relational phenomenon, which develops through processes permeated by particular dynamics to the human psychic constitution itself. The philosophy of language, represented by the work of Bakhtin’s Circle, is invited to dialogue with a psychological science that opens up to jointly tread paths of convergence and sharing of axiological premises and concepts relevant to the investigation of the individual in the creative process. The authors invite the reader to reflect, in particular, on the dialogical dynamics that constitute creativity, highlighting the great potential embedded in this perspective both for cultural studies on creativity and for the investigation of human development processes. The main Bakhtinian concepts will be problematized in a developmental analysis, building intra- and inter-theoretical bridges that help in the understanding of the creative phenomenon in course. In addition, this writing underlines the ethical dimensions of the study of creativity in a dialogical perspective and its main premises about the place of alterity in the processes of creation, not only of artifacts and cultural products, but especially in the construction of more solidary forms of life and utopically democratic.
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Neves-Pereira, M.S., Pinheiro, M.A. (2023). Creativity and Dialogism. In: Neves-Pereira, M.S., Pinheiro, M.A. (eds) A Dialogical Approach to Creativity. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11760-2_2
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