Scenic Imagination - Originary Thinking From Hobbes to the Present Day

Informationen zum Autor Eric Gans has taught French literature and film at UCLA since 1969. Beginning with The Origin of Language (1981), Gans developed the concept of generative anthropology and has written four other books on the subject, including Signs of Paradox: Irony, Resentment, and Other Mimetic Structures (Stanford, 1997). He has also written books on Gustave Flaubert, Prosper Mérimée, and Alfred de Musset. Professor Gans is a Chevalier des Palmes académiques . Klappentext This book demonstrates the indispensability of the "scenic imagination" to human self-understanding by examining hypothetical scenes of origin in the writings of two dozen thinkers from Hobbes to the present day. Zusammenfassung This book demonstrates the indispensability of the "scenic imagination" to human self-understanding by examining hypothetical scenes of origin in the writings of two dozen thinkers from Hobbes to the present day.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Gans
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.10.2007
• EAN: 9780804757003
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5700-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies