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)
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) - Imagination: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback
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) - Imagination: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Imagination: A Very Short Introduction
Author(s): 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)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198830023
Pages: 160 Pages, 10 Images
Publication Date: 1/26/2024
Series: Very Short Introductions
Category: Cognitivism, Cognitive Theory
Description: 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.
Title: Imagination: A Very Short Introduction
Author(s): 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)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198830023
Pages: 160 Pages, 10 Images
Publication Date: 1/26/2024
Series: Very Short Introductions
Category: Cognitivism, Cognitive Theory
