Imagining for Real: Essays on Creation, Attention and Correspondence

ISBN-13: 9780367775117 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 418 str.

Timothy Ingold

Opis

What does imagination do for our perception of the world? Why should reality be broken off from our imagining of it? It was not always thus, and in these essays, Tim Ingold sets out to heal the break between reality and imagination at the heart of modern thought and science.

Recenzje

'Imagining for Real demonstrates beyond doubt why Tim Ingold is one of the most original thinkers of our time.'

Arturo Escobar, University of Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.

'With the publication of Imagining for Real, Tim Ingold completes the landmark trilogy that secures his standing among a very select group of writers that have the power to transform our thinking about life's most basic questions. To read these lucid, insightful, and compelling essays is to discover oneself stitched into a dynamic world overflowing with possibilities. It is to know and feel oneself more fully alive. I can't recommend this work highly enough.'

Norman Wirzba, Duke Divinity School, USA.

'An inspiring, profound, theoretically scintillating, yet refreshingly down-to-earth account of human imagination, Imagining for Real is the book we need to navigate reality in the 21^st century.'

Jill Bennett, University of New South Wales, Australia.

'Tim Ingold offers a compelling and original treatise on humans and their relations with the world. Addressing a variety of classic and emerging issues in plain language, this book is a tour de force, acutely relevant for our times.'

Gísli Pálsson, University of Iceland.

'Ingold's distinctive sense of direction and wayfinding allows him to travel into unmapped territories. Imagining for Real takes us on such a journey along previously unknown paths that connect imagination and reality. Along the way we get to know 'creation from the inside' and to 'imagine for real' using anthropology's transformational capacity. Never before has a book made this journey possible.'

Lambros Malafouris, University of Oxford, UK.

'Imagining for Real is genuine Ingold, featuring the author's unique ability for concrete-abstract thinking.'

Ton Otto, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Spis treści

Part I: Creating the world  Introduction to Part 1  1. Creation beyond creativity  2. Landscapes of perception, landscapes of imagination  3. Life in a whirl  4. Evolution in the minor key, or, the soul of wisdom  5. Dreaming of dragons  Part II: Light, sound and experience  Introduction to Part 2  6. What in the world is light?  7. Between noise and silence: on the meaning of sound  8. The cello and the lasso, or, five propositions on beauty  9. Episode zero: the reduction and revival of aesthetic experience  Part III: Surface tensions  Introduction to Part 3  10. The conical lodge at the centre of the earth-sky world  11. What if the city were an ocean, and its buildings ships?  12. Palimpsest: ground and page  13. On opening the book of surfaces  14. Strike-through and wipe-out: tactics for editing the past  Part IV: Material thinking  Introduction to Part 4  15. Of work and words: craft as a way of telling  16. Thinking through the cello  17. In the gathering shadows of material things  18. The world in a basket  Part V: Life as a whole  Introduction to Part 5  19. Animals are us: on living with other beings  20. Posthuman prehistory  21. The sustainability of everything  22. Confessions of a semiophobe  23. One world anthropology

O autorze

Tim Ingold is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He is the author of many books, including Lines, Making, The Life of Lines, Anthropology and/as Education and Correspondences.