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Understanding imagination : the reason of images

By Sepper , Dennis L

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2013
ISBN
978-94-007-6507-8, 940076507X, 978-94-007-6506-1, 103-104-114-1
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-6507-8
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3996994 bytes)
Series
Studies in history and philosophy of science (Dordrecht Netherlands) 33
Pages
538\538
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Philosophy of Science; History of Philosophy; Hist

Description

This book discusses that imagination is as important to thinking and reasoning as it is to making and acting. By reexamining our philosophical and psychological heritage, it traces a framework, a conceptual topology, that underlies the most disparate theories: a framework that presents imagination as founded in the placement of appearances. It shows how this framework was progressively developed by thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant, and how it is reflected in more recent developments in theorists as different as Peirce, Saussure, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, and Bachelard. The con. Read more... Abstract: This book offers a framework that presents imagination as founded in the placement of appearances, and traces the development of the concept from Plato to Descartes to Kant, and on through recent theorists as diverse as Wittgenstein, Benjamin and Bachelard. Read more...

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