Understanding Imagination: The Reason of Images: 33 (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 33) - Softcover

Sepper, Dennis L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9400793898 ISBN 13: 9789400793897

Publisher: Springer, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9400793898
• ISBN 13: 9789400793897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 542