Imagination: A Study in the History of Ideas

ISBN-13: 9780415058070 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 316 str.

J. M. Cocking; P. Murray;Cocking John

Opis

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 from antiquity to the Renaissance. The book opens with a treatment of imagination in the writings of Aristotle and Plato. Developments in the Middle Ages are traced, with particular attention to the parallel tradition in Islamic thought of the period and the book pursues the concept through the theories of Dante and the Neo-platonists to the High Renaissance.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

John Cocking, Penelope Murray