Review of the book by Julia S. Morkina “Poetic Creativity: Philosophical Analysis” (Moscow: Kanon+ ROOI “Reabilitatsiya” Publ., 2017. 304 pp.)

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Abstract

J.S. Morkina`s book “Poetic Creativity: Philosophical Analysis” deals with the problems related to the poetic creativity, creative situation and the creative functions of consciousness. For the analysis of poetic composition, the phenomenological method is used, thanks to which poetic composition is presented as a complex ideal system of meanings in the consciousness and at the same time as an intentional object. The author proposes the autopoietic model of consciousness, which makes it possible to explain the creation of new meanings by consciousness both in everyday life and in poetic creativity. This model describes the continual self-construction of consciousness in the process of generating the new meanings. The meanings created by consciousness in its being are treated as the reflective units. J.S. Morkina examines the concepts of ideal interpreter, poetic composition, etc. The ideal interpreter is considered as an ideal object responsible for the entire content of composition as a system of meanings. Poetic composition is defined as a system of concepts, where each word is included in writer`s and reader`s cultural and personal context. This monograph reconstructs the model of insight as exit from specific pre-insight state. Insight is described as a risky existential situation for creative consciousness.