Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Professor and Kurrelmeyer Chair in Germa

Broschiertes Buch

Imagination: A Very Short Introduction

Beschreibung

Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives, this book explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing. It demonstrates how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways, making possible our experience of a meaningful world.

Autor

Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei is Professor and Kurrelmeyer Chair in German and Professor in Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. She is author of On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life (Oxford University Press); The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World; Exotic Spaces in German Modernism (Oxford University Press); The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature ; Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language; and a book of poetry, After the Palace Burns, which won The Paris Review Prize.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 173mm x 113mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 142g
• ISBN-13: 9780198830023
• ISBN-10: 0198830025
• Artikelnr.: 67515595