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Imagination: A Very Short Introduction
Imagination: A Very Short Introduction
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Imagination is a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, shaping our experience of a meaningful world. This book explores its philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives, demonstrating how it frees us from immediate reality and enriches our sense of it.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 26 October 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imagination is a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, playing multiple roles in human cognition and shaping humanity in profound ways. It has been long regarded by philosophers as an elusive and mysterious capacity of the human mind, 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 explores the dramatic conceptual history of imagination and contemporary explanations of its role in cognition. It engages 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 the philosophy of imagination and the stakes of its involvement in human thinking, providing a clear and vision of the importance of imagination in everyday life and the exquisite creativity of the arts, scientific discovery, and invention.
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, and perspective to provide concise and accessible introductions to complex topics.
Weight: 136g
Dimension: 111 x 174 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780198830023
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