Imagination
A Study in the History of Ideas
1st Edition
Published on 11. August 2005
320 pages
978-1-134-93209-2 (ISBN)
Description
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. The manuscript was left unfinished on Professor Cocking's death in 1986 and has been edited by Penelope Murray, who adds an introductory essay. The book will be of particular value as a background to the explosion of interest in the imagination in the Romantic period.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
4,41 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-93209-2 (9781134932092)
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12/1991
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Persons
John Cocking, Penelope Murray
Content
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
