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Imagination
Mary Warnock
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Description for Imagination
Paperback. Interrelating the problems in philosophy, the history of ideas and literary theory and criticism, this book features a contribution to a elusive and confusing subject. Num Pages: 219 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
Number of Pages
219
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520037243
SKU
V9780520037243
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About Mary Warnock
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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