Is Oppression The Key To Creativity? | Lowkey, Joanna Kavenna, Andrew Motion - a podcast by IAI

Freedom is often seen as the vital oxygen of creativity. Yet Shakespeare worked within a framework of censorship, Don Quixote was written from prison and Leonardo argued that at 'lives on constraint and dies of freedom'. Can oppression help produce masterpieces or do the free always write the greatest poetry? In this episode of Philosophy for our Times, former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, Novelist and Author Joanna Kavenna and hip hop artist Lowkey debate creativity and constraint.

Further episodes of Philosophy For Our Times

Further podcasts by IAI

Website of IAI