Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei Imagination (Paperback) Very Short Introductions

Description: Further DetailsTitle: ImaginationCondition: NewISBN-10: 0198830025EAN: 9780198830023ISBN: 9780198830023Publisher: Oxford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/26/2023Description: 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 a meaningful 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 with contemporary explanations of its role in cognition to explain its importance in everyday life as well as the exquisite creativity of the arts, scientific discovery, and invention. Engaging examples from cave paintings to modern painting, performance art to pop art, physics to phenomenology, technological inventions to literary worlds, the Nazca geoglyphs to dramatic theatre, poetry, and jazz improvisation, the author illuminates with clarity and vision the philosophy of imagination and the stakes of its involvement in human thinking.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 174mmItem Length: 111mmItem Width: 9mmAuthor: Jennifer Gosetti-FerenceiGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Very Short IntroductionsTopic: Society & Culture, Philosophy & SpiritualityItem Weight: 134gSubtitle: A Very Short IntroductionRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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