John Kaag

Thinking Through the Imagination

Aesthetics in Human Cognition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An important scholarly contribution from the author of several trade books on philosophy that have reached a wide readership.

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Produktdetails

• American Philosophy
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781531501846
• ISBN-10: 1531501842
• Artikelnr.: 63434663

Autorenporträt

John Kaag is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is the author of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life (Princeton, 2020, Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award), Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018, pbk Picador, 2019, NPR Book of the Year), American Philosophy: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016, NPR Book of the Year, New York Times Editors' Choice), and Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism: The Philosophy of Ella Lyman Cabot (Lexington, 2013), and coauthor with Sarah Kreps of Drone Warfare (Polity, 2015, Choice Outstanding Title).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
1 The Cultivation of the Imagination 1
2 Enlightening Thought: Kant and the Imagination 25
3 C. S. Peirce and the Growth of the Imagination 57
4 Abduction: Inference and Instinct 75
5 Imagining Nature 93
6 Ontology and Imagination: Peirce on Necessity and Agency 120
7 The Evolution of the Imagination 139
8 Emergence, Complexity, and Creativity 165
9 Be Imaginative! Suggestion and Imperative 192
Notes 211
Bibliography 235
Index 249