Imagination - A Very Short Introduction

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.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• 1: What is imagination?


• 2: Imagination in human evolution


• 3: From divine madness to cognitive power


• 4: The productive and aesthetic imagination


• 5: The augmentation of reality


• 6: Creativity from invention to wonder


• References and further reading

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, Jennifer (Professor and Kurrelme Gosetti-Ferencei, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Prof Jennifer (Professor and Kur Gosetti-Ferencei, Prof Jennifer Anna (Professor an Gosetti-Ferencei
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.10.2023
• EAN: 9780198830023
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883002-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Very Short Introductions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary theory, Cognitivism, cognitive theory