Imaginative horizons : an essay in literary-philosophical anthropology / Vincent Crapanzano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crapanzano, Vincent, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Literature and anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do people make sense of their experiences? How do they understand possibility? How do they limit possibility? These questions are central to all the human sciences. Here, Vincent Crapanzano offers a powerfully creative new way to think about human experience: the notion of imaginative horizons. For Crapanzano, imaginative horizons are the blurry boundaries that separate the here and now from what lies beyond, in time and space. These horizons, he argues, deeply influence both how we experience our lives and how we interpret those experiences, and here sets himself the task of exploring the roles that creativity and imagination play in our experience of the world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

ONE. Imaginative Horizons

TWO. The Between

THREE. Body,Pain, and Trauma

FOUR. Hope

FIVE. The Transgressive and the Erotic

SIX. Remembrance

SEVEN. World-Ending

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-254) and index.

ISBN:

9786612738395

9781282738393

1282738399

9780226118758

0226118754

OCLC:

655848206