Gosetti-Ferencei The Life of Imagination

Revealing and Making the World
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54816-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

The Life of Imagination delivers a new conception of imagination that places it at the heart of our engagement with the world—thinking, acting, feeling, making, and being. Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei reveals imagination’s roots in embodied human cognition and its role in shaping our cognitive ecology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gosetti-Ferencei, Jennifer Anna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Thinking Imagination
1. Consciousness and Modes of Imagination
2. Evolving Imagination
3. Imagination, Perception, and Reality
4. Revealing and Making the World
5. The Embodied Life of Imagining
6. Envisioning in the Mind’s Eye and Other Imaging
7. Creativity as Situated Transcendence
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gosetti-Ferencei Jennifer Anna:
Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei is professor of philosophy at Fordham University. She is the author of Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language (2004), The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature (2007), and Exotic Spaces in German Modernism (2011). Her poetry collection, After the Palace Burns (2004), won the Paris Review Prize in Poetry.Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei is Professor William Kurrelmeyer Chair in the Department of German at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Heidegger, Hölderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language (2004), The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature (2007), and Exotic Spaces in German Modernism (2011), as well as a poetry collection, After the Palace Burns (2004).