Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition

✍ Scribed by John Kaag

Publisher: Fordham University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 266
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Traces the concept of the imagination through German idealism of the 18th century, the American philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, and the findings of contemporary cognitive neuroscience in order to argue for the centrality of aesthetics in human cognition.

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