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| Author | : John Cocking |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2005-08-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134932081 |
The origins, nature, function and effects of imagination have engrossed writers, theologians, philosophers and practitioners of the arts across the ages; its influence on painting and music continues to be debated. It has been simultaneously feared as a dangerous, uncontrollable force and revered as the supreme visionary power. Cocking's Imagination is an exploration of the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The book opens with a treatment of imagination in the writings of Aristotle and Plato. Developments in the Middle Ages are traced, with particular attention to the parallel tradition in Islamic thought of the period and the book pursues the concept through the theories of Dante and the Neo-platonists to the High Renaissance. The manuscript was left unfinished on Professor Cocking's death in 1986 and has been edited by Penelope Murray, who adds an introductory essay. The book will be of particular value as a background to the explosion of interest in the imagination in the Romantic period.
| Author | : David J. Staley |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2020-12-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 100033614X |
Historical Imagination examines the threshold between what historians consider to be proper, imagination-free history and the malpractice of excessive imagination, asking where the boundary between the two sits and the limits of permitted imagination for the historian. We use "imagination" to refer to a mental skill that encompasses two different tasks: the reconstruction of previously experienced parts of the world and the creation of new objects and experiences with no direct connection to the actual world. In history, imagination means using the mind's eye to picture both the actual and inactual at the same time. All historical works employ at least some creative imagination, but an excess is considered "too much". Under what circumstances are historians permitted to cross this boundary into creative imagination and how far can they go? Supporting theory with relatable examples, Staley shows how historical works are a complex combination of mimetic and creative imagination and offers a heuristic for assessing this ratio in any work of history. Setting out complex theoretical concepts in an accessible and understandable manner and encouraging the reader to consider both the nature and limits of historical imagination, this is an ideal volume for students and scholars of the philosophy of history.
| Author | : David Shulman |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2012-04-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0674059913 |
From the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the imagination came to be recognized in South Indian culture as the defining feature of human beings. Shulman elucidates the distinctiveness of South Indian theories of the imagination and shows how they differ radically from Western notions of reality and models of the mind.
| Author | : Martin Jay |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 462 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781845454289 |
Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities is occurring at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. This volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities.
| Author | : Eva T. H. Brann |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 828 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780847677764 |
In this book, Eva Brann sets out no less a task than to assess the meaning of imagination in its multifarious expressions throughout western history. The result is one of those rare achievements that will make The World of the Imagination a standard reference.
| Author | : Jacques Le Goff |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1992-12-15 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780226470856 |
To write this history of the imagination, Le Goff has recreated the mental structures of medieval men and women by analyzing the images of man as microcosm and the Church as mystical body; the symbols of power such as flags and oriflammes; and the contradictory world of dreams, marvels, devils, and wild forests. "Le Goff is one of the most distinguished of the French medieval historians of his generation . . . he has exercised immense influence."—Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books "The whole book turns on a fascinating blend of the brutally materialistic and the generously imaginative."—Tom Shippey, London Review of Books "The richness, imaginativeness and sheer learning of Le Goff's work . . . demand to be experienced."—M. T. Clanchy, Times Literary Supplement
| Author | : Brady Wagoner |
| Publisher | : Information Age Publishing |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Imagination |
| ISBN | : 9781681237091 |
| Author | : Joseph Anthony Mazzeo |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2021-11-29 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1000470660 |
First published in 1962, Reason and Imagination presents collection of fourteen essays dedicated to Marjorie Hope Nicholson and is divided equally between works of her colleagues and of her former students. It contains themes like noble numbers and poetry of devotion, Cromwell as Davidic King, the isolation of the renaissances hero, Milton’s dialogue on Astronomy, music, mirth and galenic traditions in England, the Augustan conception of history, Locke and Sterne, and literary criticism and artistic interpretation, to weave a narrative of the history of ideas in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of literary history, philosophy, comparative literature, and English literature in general.
| Author | : Leo Treitler |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674591295 |
Leo Treitler is a central figure in American musicology, both for his writings on medieval and Renaissance music and for his influential work on historical analysis. In this elegant book he develops a powerful statement of what music analysis and criticism in relation to historical understanding can be. His aim is an understanding of the music of the past not only in its own historical context but also as we apprehend it now, and as we assimilate it to our current interests and concerns. He elucidates his views through unique new interpretations of major works from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.
| Author | : John Ehrenreich |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2014-06-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0801471222 |
Social work and social policy in the United States have always had a complex and troubled relationship. In The Altruistic Imagination, John H. Ehrenreich offers a critical interpretation of their intertwined histories, seeking to understand the problems that face these two vital institutions in American society.Ehrenreich demonstrates that the emphasis of social work has always vacillated between individual treatment and social reform. Tracing this ever-changing focus from the Progressive Era, through the development of the welfare state, the New Deal, and the affluent 1950s and 1960s, into the administration of Ronald Reagan, he places the evolution of social work in the context of political, cultural, and ideological trends, noting the paradoxes inherent in the attempt to provide essential services and reflect at the same time the intentions of the state. He concludes by examining the turning point faced by the social work profession in the 1980s, indicated by a return to casework and a withdrawal from social policy concerns.
