Tag: Imagination

Free Download The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo By Maik Nwosu (editor), Obiwu (editor)
2015 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0815633874 | PDF | 3 MB
In African studies, the "Echeruoan ideal" is understood as an intervention or intellectual engagement characterized by a broadness of vision as well as a depth of analysis. The essays gathered in this volume celebrate that ideal and honor Echeruo’s contribution to the African intellectual tradition.Editors Nwosu and Obiwu explore the driving forces in the literature of Africa and the African diaspora. Contributors examine such themes as migration and exile, trauma and repression, violence and rebellion, and gender and human rights. Showcasing a rich diversity of cultural and academic backgrounds, this volume inaugurates a new paradigm for further examination of African literature as world literature and for analysis of African literature through the lens of psychoanalytic semiotics. While varied in modes of inquiry, the essays are unified in their ambition to explore new theoretical directions, reinvigorating the conversation around how African literature is read and studied.

Free Download Muslim Modernities: Expressions of the Civil Imagination By Amyn B. Sajoo
2008 | 274 Pages | ISBN: 1845118723 | PDF | 2 MB
How does Islam engage with the idea of the modern and with the contemporary world? How is Muslim tradition to be reconciled with a world in continuous flux and change? These questions lie at the heart of current discussions of the Islamic faith and of its doctrines, beliefs and practices. Engaging directly with such questions, this important volume discusses such key themes as identity and citizenship, piety and protest and music and modes of dress. Muslim as well as non-Muslim scholars explore how religiosity and tradition may both have an active role to play in the unfolding of what we understand of as ‘the modern’. Modernity is commonly portrayed as a break with traditionalism: and as a marriage to the secular. Yet the core values at stake – from the ethos of intellectualism to the pluralism of civic culture – have roots in diverse civilizations, and certainly in those of Islam. A vital theme in the book is the role played by the ethical imagination in expressions of the civil determined by a diversity of Qur’anic understandings. This role is important in practices of civil society and citizenship, in grappling with new technologies, and in the challenges posed by political violence. Since 9/11, the West’s failure to come to grips with plural modernities has reinforced simplistic assumptions about a ‘clash of civilizations’. Fresh perspectives are offered here on what it is to be both modern and Muslim, mindful of the multiple narratives that inform both identities.

Free Download Imagination in the Western Psyche: From Ancient Greece to Modern Neuroscience (Research in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Studies) by Jonathan Erickson
English | August 8, 2019 | ISBN: 0367205165, 1032090669 | True EPUB | 270 pages | 0.5 MB
Imagination in the Western Psyche: From Ancient Greece to Modern Neuroscienceoffers a comprehensive treatment of the human imagination by integrating the rich discourse on imagination in the humanities with modern neuroscientific research.This book is the first to offer an integrated understanding of imagination from both a humanistic (i.e., historical, philosophical, cultural, depth psychological) and scientific perspective.

Free Download Imagination Mastery by Beca Lewis
English | MP3@192 kbps | 1h 58m | 162.6 MB
"Your imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions." Albert Einstein