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Imagination

Imagination

Imagination Paperback - 1978

by Mary Warnock

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University of California Press, 1978. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Imagination
  • Author Mary Warnock
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 219
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
  • Publication date 1978
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0520037243I3N00
  • ISBN 9780520037243 / 0520037243
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.48 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.22 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 75022663
  • Dewey Decimal Code 153.3
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Imagination is an outstanding contribution to a notoriously elusive and confusing subject. It skillfully interrelates problems in philosophy, the history of ideas and literary theory and criticism, tracing the evolution of the concept of imagination from Hume and Kant in the eighteenth century to Ryle, Sartre and Wittgenstein in the twentieth. She strongly belies that the cultivation of imagination should be the chief aim of education and one of her objectives in writing the book has been to put forward reasons why this is so. Purely philosophical treatment of the concept is shown to be related to its use in the work of Coleridge and Wordsworth, who she considers to be the creators of a new kind of awareness with more than literary implications. The purpose of her historical account is to suggest that the role of imagination in our perception and thought is more pervasive than may at first sight appear, and that the thread she traces is an important link joining apparently different areas of our experience. She argues that imagination is an essential element in both our awareness of the world and our attaching of value to it.

From the rear cover

"[Mrs. Warnock concentrates] on puzzles of perception and interpretations, that is, on imagination defined as the mediating faculty between the 'objective' world of phenomena and our subjective experience of it. She then examines the use we make of that mediated experience. And, as reductive as this narrow focusing of attention may sound, it is surprising what a spread of topics it illuminates. . . . You could not wish for a clearer or more elegantly argued account of these particular concerns." -Economist

"Although her exposition and commentary resembles an account of historical development of the Romantic concept of imagination and its twentieth-century critique, in fact she is more concerned to refine her own (and her reader's) understanding of the diverse but related functions of imagination. . . . Her discussion of Kant is brilliant." -Journal of the American Academy of Religion

About the author

Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, DBE, FBA, FMedSci, is a British philosopher of morality, education and mind, and writer on existentialism.

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