Imagination: A Very Short Introduction
Very Short Introductions
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 160
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Very Short Introductions
- EAN: 9780198830023
- Utgivelsesår: 2023
- Bidragsyter: Gosetti-Ferencei, Jennifer (Professor and Kurrelmeyer Chair in German and Professor in Philosophy, Professor and Kurrelmeyer Chair in German and Professor in Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University)
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways. Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives on imagination, the author shows how this facility, while potentially distorting, both frees us from immediate reality and enriches our sense of it, making possible our experience of ameaningful world. Long regarded by philosophers as an elusive and mysterious capacity of the human mind, imagination has been the subject of extraordinary ambivalence, described as both dangerous and divine, as merely peripheral to rationality and as essential to all thinking. Drawing on philosophy,aesthetics, literary and cognitive theory as well as the human sciences, this book engages the dramatic conceptual history of imagination together wi
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