Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau
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Before imagination became the transcendent and creative faculty promoted by the Romantics, it was for something quite different. Not reserved to a privileged few, imagination was instead considered a universal ability that each person could direct in practical ways. To imagine something meant to form in the mind a replica of a thing--its taste, its sound, and other physical attributes. At the end of the Renaissance, there was a movement to encourage...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0804751102
ISBN13:9780804751100
Release Date:August 2005
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.16 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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