Editorial introduction: A creative life

This is a pre-publication, electronic version of an article published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities . This article is from a special issue, 'Creative philosophy theory and praxis', edited by Felicity Colman and Charles J. Stivale.In seeking authors who might address the relationship between the notions of philosophy and of creativity, the call for papers for this special issue of Angelaki invited consideration of the physical terms of each of these pursuits – philosophy and creative invention. The daily praxes of individual authorial and artistic pursuits are what have drawn us close to these selected texts. Individual authors’ obsessions and obsessive interests highlight the immense variation in how aesthetics operates as a determinant mode for those individuals and the communities with which they choose to engage