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Lost knowledge of the imagination / Gary Lachman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frater Amor Fati, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imagination.
- Imagination (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Floris Books, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Imagination is a core aspect of being human, allowing us to fully experience ourselves in relation to the world and reality. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation. In the seventeenth century, a new way of knowing the world and ourselves transformed human life: science. But its dominance came at a price, the marginalisation of another form of knowledge: imagination. Without this lost knowledge, the world is only half-alive. The imagination - often sidelined as a way of escaping reality, rather than coming to grips with it - is not merely a means of knowing reality, but also the means of bringing it into being. Lost Knowledge of the Imagination argues that, in the strange new world of the twenty-first century, the need to regain this lost knowledge is more necessary that ever. This insightful and inspiring book calls for a rebalance of the influence between imagination and science. Through the work of Owen Barfield, Goethe, Henry Cochin, Kathleen Raine and others, Gary Lachman introduces the reader to a canon of spiritual, philosophical and metaphysical teaching that offers a radically different way of understanding ourselves and the world. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One: A Different Kind of Knowing
- Chapter Two: A Look Inside the World
- Chapter Three: The Knower and the Known
- Chapter Four: The Way Within
- Chapter Five: The Learning of the Imagination
- Chapter Six: The Responsible Imagination
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Howard R. Jachman Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781782504573
- 1782504575
- Publisher Number:
- 99980539428
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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