From romanticism through postmodernism, the imagination has become an indispensable reference point for thinking about the self, culture, philosophy, and politics. How has imagination so thoroughly influenced our understanding of experience and its possibilities? In a bold reinterpretation of a crucial development in modern European intellectual history, Matthew W. Maguire uncovers a history of French thought that casts the imagination as a dominant faculty in our experience of the world.
Pascal, turning Augustinianism inside out, radically expanded the powers of imagination implicit...
From romanticism through postmodernism, the imagination has become an indispensable reference point for thinking about the self, culture, philosoph...
Includes the Social Contract, Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and ""Preface to Narcissus"". Each text has been newly translated, and includes a full complement of explanatory notes. The editors' introduction offers students diverse points of entry into some of the distinctive possibilities and challenges of each of these fundamental texts.
Includes the Social Contract, Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and ""Preface to Narcissus"". Each text ...
