Imagination: A Very Short Introduction
(Sprache: Englisch)
Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives, this book explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing. It demonstrates how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes...
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Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives, this book explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing. It demonstrates how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways, making possible our experience of a meaningful world.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Imagination: A Very Short Introduction “
- Acknowledgements
- 1: What is imagination?
- 2: Imagination in human evolution
- 3: From divine madness to cognitive power
- 4: The productive and aesthetic imagination
- 5: The augmentation of reality
- 6: Creativity from invention to wonder
- References and further reading
Autoren-Porträt von Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei
Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei is Professor and Kurrelmeyer Chair in German and Professor in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. She is author of On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life (Oxford University Press); The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World; Exotic Spaces in German Modernism (Oxford University Press); The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature ; Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language; and a book of poetry, After the Palace Burns, which won The Paris Review Prize.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei
- 2023, XX, 130 Seiten, Maße: 11,3 x 17,3 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198830025
- ISBN-13: 9780198830023
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.10.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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