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Imagination : a very short introduction / Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gosetti-Ferencei, Jennifer Anna, author.
- Series:
- Very short introductions ; 740.
- Very short introductions ; 740
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imagination.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 130 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Long regarded as an elusive and mysterious capacity of the human mind, imagination has been both criticized and revered by philosophers. In Imagination: A Very Short Introduction, Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei explores imagination as a cognitive power crucial to human flourishing. Gosetti-Ferencei explains the philosophy of imagination while drawing on aesthetics and literary theory, exploring its importance in human experience from art to science and everyday life. Imagination is illuminated with examples from cave paintings to poetry, physics to phenomenology, technology to Nazca geoglyphs, and modern art--back cover.
- Contents:
- What is imagination?
- Imagination in human evolution
- From divine madness to cognitive power
- The productive and aesthetic imagination
- The augmentation of reality
- Creativity from invention to wonder.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-122) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780198830023
- 0198830025
- OCLC:
- 1405419271
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