Imagination: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei Paperback Bo

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Imagination by Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives, this book explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing. It demonstrates how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways, making possible our experience of a meaningful world. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways. Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives on imagination, theauthor shows how this facility, while potentially distorting, both frees us from immediate reality and enriches our sense of it, making possible our experience of a meaningful world. Long regarded by philosophers as an elusive and mysterious capacity of thehuman mind, imagination has been the subject of extraordinary ambivalence, 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 engages the dramatic conceptual history of imagination together with contemporary explanations of its role in cognition to explain its importance in everyday life as well as the exquisite creativity of thearts, scientific discovery, and invention. Engaging 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 with clarity and vision the philosophy of imagination and the stakes of its involvement in human thinking.ABOUT THE SERIES: 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, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. Author Biography Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei is Professor and Kurrelmeyer Chair in German and Professor in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. She is author of On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life (Oxford University Press); The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World; Exotic Spaces in German Modernism (Oxford University Press); The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature ;Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language; and a book of poetry, After the Palace Burns, which won The Paris Review Prize. Table of Contents Acknowledgements1: What is imagination?2: Imagination in human evolution3: From divine madness to cognitive power4: The productive and aesthetic imagination5: The augmentation of reality6: Creativity from invention to wonderReferences and further reading Details ISBN0198830025 Publisher Oxford University Press Series Very Short Introductions Year 2023 ISBN-10 0198830025 ISBN-13 9780198830023 Publication Date 2023-10-26 UK Release Date 2023-10-26 Format Paperback Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Ibrahim Abubakar Illustrations 10 images NZ Release Date 2023-10-26 Birth 1938 Affiliation University College London, London, UK Position Reader in Bioscience Education Qualifications J.D. Audience General AU Release Date 2023-11-08 Author Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei Pages 160 DEWEY 153.3 Subtitle A Very Short Introduction We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:151323390;

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