ABSTRACT
One might begin by trying to distinguish between creativity and novelty, or alternatively between extraordinary and ordinary creativity. There is nothing especially creative, on this view, in either a conversation or an improvised performance there is merely novelty. The writer's use of language is creative to the extent that it violates an existing rule of grammar, or invents and then shows the use of a new rule. Creativity could be linked to creating, and seen as involved in all making: so that there is an exercise of creativity in all making. This is, in effect, the position of the early Marx in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. It is because making is so central to the growth and exercise of human powers, including human creativity, that alienation from making is so devastating for the human spirit, and thus the basis for a moral critique of alienating economic and social relations.
