Tag: Imagination

Light as Experience and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times


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English | November 21, 2022 | ISBN: 168393363X | True EPUB/PDF | 388 pages | 3.4/8.97 MB
In Light as Experience and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times, David S. Herrstrom synthesizes and interprets the experience of light as revealed in a wide range of art and literature from medieval to modern times.

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God Interrupted Heresy and the European Imagination between the World Wars


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English | January 4, 2009 | ISBN: 069113670X, 0691155410 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 1.4 MB
Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God’s absence and the interruption of his call. In response, they helped resurrect gnosticism and pantheism, the two most potent challenges to the monotheistic tradition. In God Interrupted, Benjamin Lazier tracks the ensuing debates about the divine across confessions and disciplines. He also traces the surprising afterlives of these debates in postwar arguments about the environment, neoconservative politics, and heretical forms of Jewish identity. In lively, elegant prose, the book reorients the intellectual history of the era.

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Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination


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English | November 1, 2019 | ISBN: 0812251571 | 256 pages | MOBI | 7.76 Mb
Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and distinctive features of ancient Egyptian visual culture. For both the literate minority of Egyptians and the vast illiterate majority of the population, hieroglyphs possessed a potent symbolic value that went beyond their capacity to render language visible. For nearly three thousand years, the hieroglyphic script remained closely bound to indigenous notions of religious and cultural identity.

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Milton’s Angels The Early-Modern Imagination


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English | 2013 | pages: 488 | ISBN: 0199657718, 0199560501 | EPUB | 3,2 mb
Milton’s Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the creatures of Milton’s narrative, through which he sets the Fall of humankind against a cosmic background.

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The Creative Imagination Indeterminacy and Embodiment in the Writings of Kant, Fichte, and Castoriadis


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English | ISBN: 1538144263 | 2021 | 278 pages | EPUB | 466 KB
By engaging with the notions of indeterminacy and embodiment within the writings of Immanuel Kant, Johann Fichte and Cornelius Castoriadis, this book addresses and brings to the fore the significance of the creative imagination as an ontological source of human creation. Principally inspired by Castoriadis’ revolutionary elucidation of the imagination and the imaginary, this book actively contributes to this neglected line of enquiry by exposing deep lines of continuity and rupture both within and between the writings of Kant, Fichte, and Castoriadis. Beginning with Kant’s hesitation in describing the productive imagination as a creative and embodied power of the soul, this book traces these lines of continuity and rupture through Fichte’s innovative depiction of the creative imagination as an ontological power of creation and through Castoriadis’ radical extension of this idea into the social-historical realm. Given the notions of indeterminacy and embodiment actively inform these lines of continuity and of rupture, this book contributes to the landscape of thinking by proposing the creative imagination must be envisaged an embodied power of the human soul.

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Seven Keys To Imagination


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English | 2010 | ISBN: 1950818322 | EPUB | pages: 310 | 0.5 mb
Piero Morosini, author of Seven Keys to Imagination, concludes the book with this, "Imagination has the chance of creating new, radical and beneficial futures as never before in the history of humankind. In order to realize wholesome futures, our imagination needs to be guided by our wisdom, supported by our determined courage, and developed in the company of our heartfelt intuition. Because positive imagination does start-and end-in the heart."

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Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination


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English | ISBN: 1350268941 | 2023 | 264 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book positions Ovid’s Metamorphoses as a foundational text in the western history of environmental thought. The poem is about new bodies. Stones, springs, plants and animals materialize out of human origins to create a world of hybrid objects, which retain varying degrees of human subjectivity while taking on new physical form. In bending the boundaries of known categories of being, these hybrid entities reveal both the porousness of human and other agencies as well as the dangers released by their fusion. Metamorphosis unsettles the category of the human within the complex ecologies that make up the world as we know it. Drawing on a range of modern environmental theorists and approaches, the contributors to this volume trace how the

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Meadow of Imagination


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English | ISBN: 195280518X | 2020 | 190 pages | EPUB | 519 KB
Step into a meadow of imagination if you dare, gracefully guided by a maiden fair.

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