Understanding imagination : the reason of images / Dennis L Sepper.
"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 imagina...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
[2013]
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| Series: | Studies in history and philosophy of science (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ;
v. 33. |
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | "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 conceptual topology of imagination incorporates logic, mathematics, and science as well as production, play, and art. Recognizing this topology can move us past the confusions to a unifying view of imagination for the future"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (533 pages). |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 940076507X 9789400765078 |
| ISSN: | 0929-6425 ; |