Understanding Imagination von Dennis L Sepper | The Reason of Images | ISBN 9789400765061

Understanding Imagination

The Reason of Images

von Dennis L Sepper
Buchcover Understanding Imagination | Dennis L Sepper | EAN 9789400765061 | ISBN 94-007-6506-1 | ISBN 978-94-007-6506-1

Understanding Imagination

The Reason of Images

von Dennis L Sepper
This book discusses that imagination is as important to thinking and reasoning as it is to making and acting. By reexamining our philosophical and psychological heritage, it traces a framework, a conceptual topology, that underlies the most disparate theories: a framework that presents imagination as founded in the placement of appearances. It shows how this framework was progressively developed by thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant, and how it is reflected in more recent developments in theorists as different as Peirce, Saussure, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, and Bachelard. The conceptual topology of imagination incorporates logic, mathematics, and science as well as production, play, and art. Recognizing this topology can move us past the confusions to a unifying view of imagination for the future.