
Unimaginable
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In his new book, a sequel to the earlier Unbelievable, one of Britain's most exciting writers on religion here presents a nuanced and many-dimensional portrait of the mystery and creativity of the human imagination. Traversing landscapes that are both physical and emotional, palpable and intangible, the author enlists the company of fellow-travellers William Wordsworth, William Turner, Samuel Palmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams - alongside many other creative artists - to try to get to the bottom of the true meanings of originality and memory. Drawing the while on his own rich and varied encounters with belief, he asks why it is that the imagination is so fundamental to who and what we are.
Using metaphor and story to unpeel the hidden motivations and architecture of the mind, and show what might lie beneath, Graham Ward grapples here with profound questions of ultimacy and transcendence. He reveals that, in understanding what it really means to be human, what cannot be imagined invariably means as much as what can.
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'Unimaginable is a book of wonders. It is an interdisciplinary excavation of imagination, its "palaeontology, archaeology, biology, physiology, psychology... and how it engages with the world". Yet it is far more than this: it is an exploration of language and art, of life itself, through enchanted prose and a weaving together of ideas, layers and cultures - "the stark, ungraspable beauty; the raw, defenceless horror," - that makes for compulsive reading. Unimaginable is a unique and powerful contribution to our understanding. Not to be missed.' 'Our contemporary world has seen a great rift between so-called religious fundamentalists and an enlightened liberalism which wishes religion would simply go away. Both sides are woefully failing in that deep human quality: the imagination. Graham Ward's new book Unimaginable is a profound and richly enjoyable journey towards the ground of our being. I know this is a text which I shall often revisit.' [Ward] offers a kind of chiaroscuro of intellectual vignettes relating to the imagination. He speculates on how the evolution of hands and human locomotion gave rise to contemplating things beyond humans' current awareness, and reflects on imagination as employed by Shakespeare, the Romantic poets, and various filmmakers. * CHOICE * [O]ne may warmly recommend this deliberate attempt to stand apart from formal argument and instead provide numerous vignettes of how we might plausibly interpret both ancient and modern culture. * Theology *More details
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Introduction: Deep Dreaming
PART ONE: ARCHAEOLOGIES
I. Landscapes
II. Palaeolithic Horizons
PART TWO: ARCHITECTURES
III. Imagination and Mental Life
IV. Imagination and Memory
V. Imagination and Dreams
PART THREE: ENGAGEMENTS
VI. Myth-Making
VII. The Cultural Imagination
VIII. The Social Imagination
Ecce Homo
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Index
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