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Imagination A Study in the History of Ideas
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Routledge
316 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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The origins, nature, function and effects of imagination have engrossed writers, theologians, philosophers and practitioners of the arts across the ages; its influence on painting and music continues to be debated. It has been simultaneously feared as a dangerous, uncontrollable force and revered as the supreme visionary power. Cocking's Imagination is an exploration of the history of imagination... Read more
1: The Greek Rationalists; 2: Imagination begins to be recognized; 3: The Neoplatonists; 4: Neoplatonism in Christian guise; 5: Holy images; 6: Imagination in Islam *; 7: The Western Middle Ages; 8: Ficino; 9: Ideas about poetry and painting in the Italian Renaissance; 10: The French Renaissance and after 1; Epilogue
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John Cocking, Penelope Murray
