Creative Obsession (2nd Ed.)

<p><em>Creative Obsession </em>is an <em>apomary</em> a fragmented fusion of <em>aphorisms</em> <em>apothegms </em>and <em>apologues</em> which depicts a boiling pot of philosophy with astonishing succinctness.</p><p></p><p>The fervent protagonist of <em>Creative Obsession </em>is Homer Dogg a hardcore traveler an honest scholar and an infatuated artist. The apomary spans Homer Dogg's fleeting peripatetic life while unearthing a deep-rooted connectedness of <em>aesthetic</em> <em>epistemic</em> and <em>ethic </em>thinking. <em>Creative Obsession </em>celebrates creative people of all stripes who live and work passionately resiliently and with their eyes wide open. It portrays <em>philosophic life in broad daylight</em> for the firstborn of the Third Millennium.</p><p></p><p>Homer Dogg says in ten sentences (sometimes less) what others don't say in a whole book. -F. W. Nietzsche</p><p></p><p>A literary aporistic and if you ask me successful experiment in harnessing the omnipresent powers of abductive logic. -C. S. Peirce</p><p></p><p><em>Creative Obsession</em> is a portrait of the indomitable spirits who wage <em>impassioned</em> philosophic lives--artists of the 21st Century enmeshed in their soul-wrenching pursuit of new paradigms of understanding who reject a universalistic rationality and its monolithic correspondence of Truth to Reality. With scintillating vignettes and incisive prose <em>Creative Obsession</em> delves into the existential consequences of a radically pragmatical truth. It nurtures the burgeoning understanding that the mind is <em>not</em> a mirror of the True world-but that language is a mind-molding human-made <em>tool</em> for adapting <em>truly </em>to postindustrial life on an increasingly inhospitable planet.</p><p></p><p>In just fifty-six eclectic segments (and a revealing afterword) <em>Creative Obsession </em>presents the glistening mosaic of a wide-open un-universal <em>neo-philosophic </em>landscape.</p>