Creative Consciousness: The Metaphysics of Lived Experience and its Relation to Literature

The approach of this book is unusual, perhaps provocative, in that it stresses the centrality of imagining and desiring/feeling in sensate embodied human experience, rather than reasoning, although of the course the latter has a crucial role in structuring our understanding and evaluation of that experience. This is widened and deepened by literature because of its presentation of myriad possible non-actual worlds, some of which may be considered for their own sake, while others may offer future possibilities for the enrichment of our actual as-lived experience.

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Doreen Maitre was educated at the Universities of London and Bristol, and then taught Philosophy at Middlesex Polytechnic/University, specialising in Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind, and Philosophy and Literature. Her book Literature and Possible Worlds was published in 1983. Following early retirement, she lectured part-time for Bristol University and held a Philosophy Group in her home for some years. She was married to the poet R.A. Maitre until his death in 2013. She now lives near the sea in Dorset.

212 pages

ISBN: 978-1-910996-54-6