Humanities & Social Sciences 7 (2015 8) 1351-1359 ~ ~ ~ УДК 821.161.1 Intellectual Type of Creativity (Poetry) Irina I. Plekhanova* Irkutsk State University 2 Chkalova Str., Irkutsk, 664025, Russia Received 02.03.2015, received in revised form 09.04.2015, accepted 10.06.2015 On the example of poetry, this paper explores intellectual modus of creativity as expression of tendency of artistic thinking in the 20th century. <...> The paper outlines defi ning mindsets of intellectual type of creativity: self-consciousness of art, refl ection of gnosis, priority of aesthetics over ethics, alienated lyricism. <...> Diversity of forms is illustrated by poetic examples of older symbolist V. Bryusov, futurist V. Khlebnikov, member of the absurdist group OBERIu N. Zabolotsky, neofuturist N. Glazkov, naturalistic philosopher A. Tarkovsky and minimalistic conceptualist V. Nekrasov. <...> Intellectual type of creativity, along with visibly frozen spiritual processes, shows specifi c passion for possessing the absolute truth. <...> This truth can be shown as universal idea (for instance, common unity, panlogism, hylozoism) or as a way of thinking (in examined cases – as aestheticism, Glazkov’s unprecedentism, conceptualism), which maximally approached the undogmatic, heuristic understanding of essence of nature of things and relations. <...> Keywords: intellectualization, “directed thinking”, lyrics of 20th century, self-consciousness of art, refl ection of gnosis, priority of aesthetics, alienated lyricism. <...> The need for distinguishing the intellectual type of creativity is associated with an obvious shift in the social and cultural mindsets of human in technological, when civilizational information, urban society, processes stimulate and reinforce the dominance of the left hemisphere in any type of mental activity (Ershova, 2003). <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: oembox@yandex.ru # 1351 # of language and thought, but not their artistic expression and consequences. <...> Intellectual activity, a component of human, both biological and social nature in general, develops along the self-suffi cient vector that is realized in a shift towards rationalization, reasoning, speculative preconception of spiritual, professional, creative activities. <...> The common formula of elite” (Dubin, 2010) suggests “mass and the antithesis of manipulated low and independent high art with the already known polar assessment of Irina I. Plekhanova. <...> Intellectual Type of Creativity (Poetry) their content and creativity. <...> Variation of modes <...>