Publication

2020 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

202,500 words, Guess

Page Count

810 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-109004435166
  • ISBN-139789004435162
  • Library of Congress Control Number2020025227
  • OCLC Control Number1154964703
  • Better World Books9789004435162
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Classifications

  • LCCBF408.I4545 2020
  • LCCBF408 .I4545 2020

Description

"This transdisciplinary project represents the most comprehensive study of imagination to date. The eclectic group of international scholars who comprise this volume propose bold and innovative theoretical frameworks for (re-) conceptualizing imagination in all of its divergent forms. Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory explores the complex nuances, paradoxes, and aporias related to the plethora of artistic mediums in which the human imagination manifests itself. As a fundamental attribute of our species, which other organisms also seem to possess with varying degrees of sophistication, imagination is the very fabric of what it means to be human into which everything is woven. This edited collection demonstrates that imagination is the resin that binds human civilization together for better or worse"--

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