From Memory To Imagination

Author : C. Randall Bradley
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780802865939

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From Memory to Imagination by C. Randall Bradley Pdf

The relatively recent "worship wars" over styles of worship — traditional, contemporary, or blended — have calmed down, and many churches have now reached decisions about which "worship style" defines them. At a more fundamental level, however, change has yet to begin. In From Memory to Imagination Randall Bradley argues that fallout from the worship wars needs to be cleaned up and that fundamental cultural changes — namely, the effects of postmodernism — call for new approaches to worship. Outlining imaginative ways for the church to move forward, this book is a must-read for church leaders and anyone interested in worship music.

Author : Beth Forrest,Greg de St. Maurice
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350096172

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Food in Memory and Imagination by Beth Forrest,Greg de St. Maurice Pdf

How do we engage with food through memory and imagination? This expansive volume spans time and space to illustrate how, through food, people have engaged with the past, the future, and their alternative presents. Beth M. Forrest and Greg de St. Maurice have brought together first-class contributions, from both established and up-and-coming scholars, to consider how imagination and memory intertwine and sometimes diverge. Chapters draw on cases around the world-including Iran, Italy, Japan, Kenya, and the US-and include topics such as national identity, food insecurity, and the phenomenon of knowledge. Contributions represent a range of disciplines, including anthropology, history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. This volume is a veritable feast for the contemporary food studies scholar.

Author : Annette Kuhn
Publisher : Verso
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1859844065

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Family Secrets by Annette Kuhn Pdf

A new edition with a new introduction and an additional chapter.

Author : Mathias Thaler,Mihaela Mihai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000090635

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Political Violence and the Imagination by Mathias Thaler,Mihaela Mihai Pdf

Using a variety of theoretical reflections and empirically grounded case studies, this book examines how certain kinds of imagination – political, artistic, historical, philosophical – help us tackle the challenge of comprehending and responding to various forms of political violence. Understanding political violence is a complex task, which involves a variety of operations, from examining the social macro-structures within which actors engage in violence, to investigating the motives and drives of individual perpetrators. This book focuses on the faculty of imagination and its role in facilitating our normative and critical engagement with political violence. It interrogates how the imagination can help us deal with past as well as ongoing instances of political violence. Several questions, which have thus far received too little attention from political theorists, motivate this project: Can certain forms of imagination – artistic, historical, philosophical – help us tackle the challenge of comprehending and responding to unprecedented forms of violence? What is the ethical and political value of artworks depicting human rights violations in the aftermath of conflicts? What about the use of thought experiments in justifying policy measures with regard to violence? What forms of political imagination can foster solidarity and catalyse political action? This book opens up a forum for an inclusive and reflexive debate on the role that the imagination can play in unpacking complex issues of political violence. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of the journal, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

Author : Jim Davies
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781643132884

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Imagination by Jim Davies Pdf

We don’t think of imagination the way that we should. The word is often only associated with children, artists and daydreamers, but in reality, imagination is an integral part of almost every action and decision that we make. Simply put, imagination is a person’s ability to create scenarios in his or her head: this can include everything from planning a grocery list, to honing a golf swing, to having religious hallucinations. And while imagination has positive connotations, it can also lead to decreased productivity and cooperation, or worse, the continuous reliving of past trauma.The human brain is remarkable in its ability to imagine—it can imagine complex possible futures, fantasy worlds, or tasty meals. We can use our imaginations to make us relaxed or anxious. We can imagine what the world might be, and construct elaborate plans. People have been fascinated with the machination of the human brain and its ability to imagine for centuries. There are books on creativity, dreams, memory, and the mind in general, but how exactly do we create those scenes in our head? With chapters ranging from hallucination and imaginary friends to how imagination can make you happier and more productive, Jim Davies' Imagination will help us explore the full potential of our own mind.

Author : Amy Tan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062319302

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Where the Past Begins by Amy Tan Pdf

From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir about finding meaning in life through acts of creativity and imagination. As seen on PBS American Masters "Unintended Memoir." In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals the ways that our memories and personal experiences can inform our creative work. Drawing on her vivid impressions of her upbringing, Tan investigates the truths and inspirations behind her writing while illuminating how we all explore, confront, and process complex memories, especially half-forgotten ones from childhood. With candor, empathy, and humor, Tan sheds light on her own writing process, sharing her hard-won insights on the nature of creativity and inspiration while exploring the universal urge to examine truth through the workings of imagination—and what that imaginative world tells us about our own lives. Where the Past Begins is both a unique look into the mind of an extraordinary storyteller and an indispensable guide for writers, artists, and other creative thinkers.

Author : Bronwen Neil,Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004375710

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Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium by Bronwen Neil,Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides Pdf

This collection of studies on Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium reveals the distinctive and important roles of memory, imagination and dreams in the Byzantine court, the proto-Orthodox church and broader society from Constantinople to Syria and beyond

Author : Patricia Cook
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0822313073

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Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory by Patricia Cook Pdf

Does philosophy have a future? Postmodern thought, with its rejection of claims to absolute truth or moral objectivity, would seem to put the philosophical enterprise in jeopardy. In this volume some of today's most influential thinkers face the question of philosophy's future and find an answer in its past. Their efforts show how historical traditions are currently being appropriated by philosophy, how some of the most provocative questions confronted by philosophers are given their impetus and direction by cultural memory. Unlike analytic philosophy, a discipline supposedly liberated from any manifestation of cultural memory, the movement represented by these essays demonstrates how the inquiries, narratives, traditions, and events of our cultural past can mediate some of the most interesting exercises of the present-day philosophical imagination. Attesting to the power of historical tradition to enhance and redirect the prospects of philosophy these essays exemplify a new mode of doing philosophy. The product of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in 1990, it is the task of this book to show that history can be reclaimed by philosophy and resurrected in postmodernity. Contributors. George Allan, Eva T. H. Brann, Arthur C. Danto, Lynn S. Joy, George L. Kline, George R. Lucas, Jr., Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert C. Neville, John Rickard, Stanley Rosen, J. B. Scheenwind, Donald Phillip Verene

Author : Arnold H. Modell
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 026213425X

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Imagination and the Meaningful Brain by Arnold H. Modell Pdf

An exploration of the biology of meaning that integrates the role of subjective processes with current knowledge of brain/mind function.

Author : E. Keightley,M. Pickering
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137271549

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The Mnemonic Imagination by E. Keightley,M. Pickering Pdf

An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination.

Author : Fiona Macpherson,Fabian Dorsch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198717881

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Perceptual Imagination and Perceptual Memory by Fiona Macpherson,Fabian Dorsch Pdf

This volume presents ten new essays on the nature of perceptual imagination and perceptual memory. The central questions are: How do perceptual imagination and memory resemble and differ from each other and from other kinds of sensory experience? And what role does each play in perception and in the acquisition of knowledge?

Author : G. N. Devy,Geoffrey V. Davis,Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Indigenous peoples
ISBN : 8125042229

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Proceedings of the 2008 Chotro Conference on Indigenous Languages, Culture, and Society: Voice and memory : indigenous imagination and expression by G. N. Devy,Geoffrey V. Davis,Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty Pdf

Author : Anja Berninger,Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000785784

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Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination by Anja Berninger,Íngrid Vendrell Ferran Pdf

This book explores the structure and function of memory and imagination, as well as the relation and interaction between the two states. It is the first book to offer an integrative approach to these two emerging areas of philosophical research. The essays in this volume deal with a variety of forms of imagining and remembering. The contributors come from a range of methodological backgrounds: empirically minded philosophers, analytic philosophers engaging mainly in conceptual analysis, and philosophers informed by the phenomenological tradition. Part 1 consists of novel contributions to ontological issues regarding the nature of memory and imagination and their respective structural features. Part 2 focuses on questions of justification and perspective regarding both states. The chapters in Part 3 discuss issues regarding memory and imagination as skills or abilities. Finally, Part 4 focuses on the relation between memory, imagination, and emotion. Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of memory, philosophy of imagination, philosophy of mind, and epistemology.

Author : Anna Abraham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781108429245

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination by Anna Abraham Pdf

The human imagination manifests in countless different forms. We imagine the possible and the impossible. How do we do this so effortlessly? Why did the capacity for imagination evolve and manifest with undeniably manifold complexity uniquely in human beings? This handbook reflects on such questions by collecting perspectives on imagination from leading experts. It showcases a rich and detailed analysis on how the imagination is understood across several disciplines of study, including anthropology, archaeology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and the arts. An integrated theoretical-empirical-applied picture of the field is presented, which stands to inform researchers, students, and practitioners about the issues of relevance across the board when considering the imagination. With each chapter, the nature of human imagination is examined - what it entails, how it evolved, and why it singularly defines us as a species.

Author : Beth Forrest,Greg de St. Maurice
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350096196

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Food in Memory and Imagination by Beth Forrest,Greg de St. Maurice Pdf

How do we engage with food through memory and imagination? This expansive volume spans time and space to illustrate how, through food, people have engaged with the past, the future, and their alternative presents. Beth M. Forrest and Greg de St. Maurice have brought together first-class contributions, from both established and up-and-coming scholars, to consider how imagination and memory intertwine and sometimes diverge. Chapters draw on cases around the world-including Iran, Italy, Japan, Kenya, and the US-and include topics such as national identity, food insecurity, and the phenomenon of knowledge. Contributions represent a range of disciplines, including anthropology, history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. This volume is a veritable feast for the contemporary food studies scholar.