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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449776103321

Autore

Cocking J. M

Titolo

Imagination [[electronic resource] ] : a study in the history of ideas / / J.M. Cocking ; edited with an introduction by Penelope Murray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991

ISBN

1-134-93209-X

1-280-16504-9

0-203-98081-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MurrayPenelope

Disciplina

128/.3

Soggetti

Imagination (Philosophy) - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's introduction; Acknowledgements; 1 The Greek Rationalists; 2 Imagination begins to be recognized; 3 The Neoplatonists; 4 Neoplatonism in Christian guise; 5 Holy images; 6 Imagination in Islam; 7 The Western Middle Ages; 8 Ficino; 9 Ideas about poetry and painting in the Italian Renaissance; 10 The French Renaissance and after1; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The shifting definitions of imagination and its ambiguous relations with memory and reason are synthesised within an historical context.