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Imagination : a study in the history of ideas / J.M. Cocking ; edited with an introduction by Penelope Murray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cocking, J. M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imagination (Philosophy)--History.
- Imagination (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (195 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An exploration of the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The shifting definitions of imagination and its ambiguous relations with memory and reason are synthesised within an historical context.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's introduction; Acknowledgements; 1 The Greek Rationalists; 2 Imagination begins to be recognized; 3 The Neoplatonists; 4 Neoplatonism in Christian guise; 5 Holy images; 6 Imagination in Islam; 7 The Western Middle Ages; 8 Ficino; 9 Ideas about poetry and painting in the Italian Renaissance; 10 The French Renaissance and after1; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-294) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-93209-X
- 1-280-16504-9
- 0-203-98081-6
- 9780203980811
- OCLC:
- 475959236
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