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Thinking through the imagination : aesthetics in human cognition / / John Kaag



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Autore: Kaag John <1979-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Thinking through the imagination : aesthetics in human cognition / / John Kaag Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014
©2014
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
Disciplina: 111/.85
Soggetto topico: Imagination (Philosophy)
Aesthetics
Cognition
Soggetto non controllato: Abduction
Aesthetics
Cognitive Neuroscience
Continuity
Creativity
Ethics
Imagination
Kant
Peirce
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Cultivation of the Imagination -- 2 Enlightening Thought: Kant and the Imagination -- 3 C. S. Peirce and the Growth of the Imagination -- 4 Abduction: Inference and Instinct -- 5 Imagining Nature -- 6 Ontology and Imagination: Peirce on Necessity and Agency -- 7 The Evolution of the Imagination -- 8 Emergence, Complexity, and Creativity -- 9 Be Imaginative! Suggestion and Imperative -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Use your imagination! The demand is as important as it is confusing. What is the imagination? What is its value? Where does it come from? And where is it going in a time when even the obscene seems overdone and passé? This book takes up these questions and argues for the centrality of imagination in human cognition. It traces the development of the imagination in Kant’s critical philosophy (particularly the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment) and claims that the insights of Kantian aesthetic theory, especially concerning the nature of creativity, common sense, and genius, influenced the development of nineteenth-century American philosophy. The book identifies the central role of the imagination in the philosophy of Peirce, a role often overlooked in analytic treatments of his thought. The final chapters pursue the observation made by Kant and Peirce that imaginative genius is a type of natural gift (ingenium) and must in some way be continuous with the creative force of nature. It makes this final turn by way of contemporary studies of metaphor, embodied cognition, and cognitive neuroscience.
Titolo autorizzato: Thinking through the imagination  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-5494-1
0-8232-5495-X
0-8232-6151-4
0-8232-5496-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824993303321
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