Thinking Through the Imagination

Aesthetics in Human Cognition

AvJohn Kaag

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Use your imagination! The demand is as important as it is confusing. What is the imagination? What is its value? Where does it come from? And where is it going in a time when even the obscene seems overdone and passé?This book takes up these questions and argues for the centrality of imagination in human cognition. It traces the development of the imagination in Kant's critical philosophy (particularly the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment) and claims that the insights of Kantian aesthetic theory, especially concerning the nature of creativity, common sense, and genius, influenced the development of nineteenth-century American philosophy.The book identifies the central role of the imagination in the philosophy of Peirce, a role often overlooked in analytic treatments of his thought. The final chapters pursue the observation made by Kant and Peirce that imaginative genius is a type of natural gift (ingenium) and must in some way be continuous with the creative force of nature. It makes this final turn by way of contemporary studies of metaphor, embodied cognition, and cognitive neuroscience.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-21
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:422 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:American Philosophy
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Fordham University Press
ISBN:9781531501846

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John Kaag is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is the author of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life (Princeton, 2020, Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award), Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018, pbk Picador, 2019, NPR Book of the Year), American Philosophy: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016, NPR Book of the Year, New York Times Editors' Choice), and Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism: The Philosophy of Ella Lyman Cabot (Lexington, 2013), and coauthor with Sarah Kreps of Drone Warfare (Polity, 2015, Choice Outstanding Title).

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Acknowledgments ix1 The Cultivation of the Imagination 12 Enlightening Thought: Kant and the Imagination 253 C. S. Peirce and the Growth of the Imagination 574 Abduction: Inference and Instinct 755 Imagining Nature 936 Ontology and Imagination: Peirce on Necessity and Agency 1207 The Evolution of the Imagination 1398 Emergence, Complexity, and Creativity 1659 Be Imaginative! Suggestion and Imperative 192Notes 211Bibliography 235Index 249