ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the issue of creativity by interrogating the assumptions behind its current manifestation as a tool in political rhetoric. In this climate it seems naive to celebrate people's creativity without understanding the effects of such transformations of people's action and effort in reinforcing particular models of the person, of culture and of the social. Culture as it is currently understood might be seen as the ultimate public domain, the final resource for any mental creativity that humans can engage in, as well as their creation. Culture, agriculture, all those elements in our history and society that impose form upon the world, are described as versions of the primordial creativity that Adam embodied, of man planting his seed in the receptive earth, and knowing himself through his own reflection in the response. Culture, then, is both a human creation and the source of human creativity.
