Abstract: The subject of this research is the consideration of specificity of conceptualization of creativity as a phenomenon in rationalistic philosophical tradition. Such conceptualization implies the transition from comprehension of creativity as an attribute of existence towards the most significant attribute of human existence, the activity of omnipotent, in other words “pure mind”. It is noted that the novelty as a result of rational activity of a creative subject is predetermined by the universal, substantial nature of the world manifested in the uniform consistencies, which in turn, must be open. The scientific novelty lies in discovering the analogues of “pure mind” and its determinant role in understanding of the phenomenon of creativity within the discourse of rationalistic philosophy. The author reveals a definitive concept – a human is creative, encapsulating the characteristics of utter certainty in omnipotence of mind as a source of all creative intentions and absolutization of the possibility of creative inquiries in the area of scientific knowledge, as well as conquering and transformation of the surrounding world. A conclusion is made that the rationalistic philosophy sets the logical and gnoseological objectives in the context of the philosophical conceptualization of creativity.

Abstract: The subject of this research is the analysis of the dynamics of irrationalistic conceptual constructs of creativity in the history of philosophical thought of the XIX and XX centuries. It is determined that the artistic, political, general, philosophical and other discourses form in accordance with the discovery and elevation to highest importance of one or another part of the aspect of the irrational. Particular attention is given to examination of the problem of creativity in the concepts of A. Schopenhauer, H. Bergson; philosophy of life of G. Simmel, F. Nietzsche, Novalis, F. Schleiermacher, J. Ruskin and N. Berdyaev, who analyzed creativity as an attribute of human existence that to a considerable degree is an embodiment of human irrationality. The scientific method consists in comprehension of the trends of genesis and formation of the concepts of creativity in the philosophy of irrationalism. A conclusion is made that examination of the problem of creativity through the prism of irrational to one or another extent is characteristic to all theoretical philosophical systems of the time of renunciation of the cult of reason, which demonstrates the determinant role of sociocultural context, the mental content of the cultural aura of the era. Therefore, the irrationalistic interpretations of creativity in philosophy are an important component within the holistic comprehension of the conceptualizations of creativity in the cultural-historical reconstruction.