On Imagination

Author : Jim Davies
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486115290

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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley by Phillis Wheatley Pdf

At the age of 19, Phillis Wheatley was the first black American poet to publish a book. Her elegies and odes offer fascinating glimpses of the beginnings of African-American literary traditions. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Author : LeVar Burton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780744090253

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A Kids Book About Imagination by LeVar Burton Pdf

A clear explanation of what the imagination is and the opportunities that come from the use of it. What is imagination? Most of us think of it as playing pretend or what happens when we’re dreaming, but imagination takes us to worlds and galaxies beyond that. Imagination helps us travel between time, space, and reality. It gives us the power to dream up the world in our own vision and encourages us to think of not just what is, but what could be. Imagination is a superpower that unlocks endless possibilities, and all by asking one simple question: what if? This is one conversation that’s never too early to start, and this book was written to be an introduction on the topic for kids. A Kids Book About Imagination features: - A large and bold, yet minimalist font design that allows kids freedom to imagine themselves in the words on the pages. - A friendly, approachable, yet empowering, kid-appropriate tone throughout. - An incredible and diverse group of authors in the series who are experts or have first-hand experience of the topic. Tackling important discourse together! The A Kids Book About series are best used when read together. Helping to kickstart challenging, empowering, and important conversations for kids and their grownups through beautiful and thought-provoking pages. The series supports an incredible and diverse group of authors, who are either experts in their field, or have first-hand experience on the topic. A Kids Co. is a new kind of media company enabling kids to explore big topics in a new and engaging way. With a growing series of books, podcasts and blogs, made to empower. Learn more about us online by searching for A Kids Co.

Author : Max Haiven
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780329550

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Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power by Max Haiven Pdf

Today, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen as an economic or political problem that can be solved through better policy, and when the idea of moral values has been commandeered by the right, how can we re-imagine the forces used as weapons against community, solidarity, ecology and life itself? In this stirring call to arms, Max Haiven argues that capitalism has colonized how we all imagine and express what is valuable. Looking at the decline of the public sphere, the corporatization of education, the privatization of creativity, and the power of finance capital in opposition to the power of the imagination and the growth of contemporary social movements, Haiven provides a powerful argument for creating an anti-capitalist commons. Capitalism is not in crisis, it is the crisis, and moving beyond it is the only key to survival. Crucial reading for all those questioning the imposition of austerity and hoping for a fairer future beyond it.

Author : Ivor Armstrong Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Imagination
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047998666

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Coleridge on Imagination by Ivor Armstrong Richards Pdf

Author : Nicola O'Byrne
Publisher : Nosy Crow
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Imagination
ISBN : 076368001X

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Use Your Imagination by Nicola O'Byrne Pdf

Wolf urges a bored Rabbit to use his imagination to create a story, but when Rabbit realizes the wolf's intentions he uses his imagination to create a surprise ending to his story.

Author : Piero Morosini
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789814312684

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Seven Keys to Imagination by Piero Morosini Pdf

As a radically new world emerges from one of the deepest global crises in living memory, individuals, teams, organizations and even entire countries will feel the urge to reinvent themselves in order to fit in. They will need to apply their imagination – their capacity to dream – and to pursue those dreams with determination.

Author : John Sallis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253005908

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Logic of Imagination by John Sallis Pdf

The Shakespearean image of a tempest and its aftermath forms the beginning as well as a major guiding thread of Logic of Imagination. Moving beyond the horizons of his earlier work, Force of Imagination, John Sallis sets out to unsettle the traditional conception of logic, to mark its limits, and, beyond these limits, to launch another, exorbitant logic—a logic of imagination. Drawing on a vast range of sources, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud, as well as developments in modern logic and modern mathematics, Sallis shows how a logic of imagination can disclose the most elemental dimensions of nature and of human existence and how, through dialogue with contemporary astrophysics, it can reopen the project of a philosophical cosmology.

Author : John Kaag
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823254941

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Thinking Through the Imagination by John Kaag Pdf

Use your imagination! The demand is as important as it is confusing. What is the imagination? What is its value? Where does it come from? And where is it going in a time when even the obscene mseems overdone and passé? This book takes up these questions and argues for the centrality of imagination in humanmcognition. It traces the development of the imagination in Kant’s critical philosophy (particularly the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment) and claims that the insights of Kantian aesthetic theory, especially concerning the nature of creativity, common sense, and genius, influenced the development of nineteenth-century American philosophy. The book identifies the central role of the imagination in the philosophy of Peirce, a role often overlooked in analytic treatments of his thought. The final chapters pursue the observation made by Kant and Peirce that imaginative genius is a type of natural gift (ingenium) and must in some way be continuous with the creative force of nature. It makes this final turn by way of contemporary studies of metaphor, embodied cognition, and cognitive neuroscience.

Author : Mary Warnock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1978-10-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0520037243

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Imagination by Mary Warnock Pdf

Imagination is an outstanding contribution to a notoriously elusive and confusing subject. It skillfully interrelates problems in philosophy, the history of ideas and literary theory and criticism, tracing the evolution of the concept of imagination from Hume and Kant in the eighteenth century to Ryle, Sartre and Wittgenstein in the twentieth. She strongly belies that the cultivation of imagination should be the chief aim of education and one of her objectives in writing the book has been to put forward reasons why this is so. Purely philosophical treatment of the concept is shown to be related to its use in the work of Coleridge and Wordsworth, who she considers to be the creators of a new kind of awareness with more than literary implications. The purpose of her historical account is to suggest that the role of imagination in our perception and thought is more pervasive than may at first sight appear, and that the thread she traces is an important link joining apparently different areas of our experience. She argues that imagination is an essential element in both our awareness of the world and our attaching of value to it.

Author : Francesca Bugliani Knox,David Lonsdale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317079354

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Poetry and the Religious Imagination by Francesca Bugliani Knox,David Lonsdale Pdf

What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the religious imagination, this book integrates interdisciplinary research in the area of poetry on the one hand, and theology, philosophy and Christian spirituality on the other. Established theologians, philosophers, literary critics and creative writers explain, by way of contemporary and historical examples, the primary role of the religious imagination in the writing as well as in the reading of poetry.

Author : C. Randall Bradley
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Charles Rycroft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429914768

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Imagination and Reality by Charles Rycroft Pdf

A collection of essays, introduced by Masud Khan and J.D. Sutherland, on a variety of subjects including: observations on a case of vertigo; on idealization, illusion, and catastrophic disillusion; the nature and function of the analyst's communication to the patient; beyond the reality principle; and, the analysis of a detective story.

Author : Lois Oppenheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780415875707

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Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion by Lois Oppenheim Pdf

First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781784783037

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Civil Imagination by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay Pdf

Understanding photography is more than a matter of assessing photographs, writes Ariella Azoulay. The photograph is merely one event in a sequence that constitutes photography and which always involves an actual or potential spectator in the relationship between the photographer and the individual portrayed. The shift in focus from product to practice, outlined in Civil Imagination, brings to light the way images can both reinforce and resist the oppressive reality foisted upon the people depicted. Through photography, Civil Imagination seeks out relations of partnership, solidarity, and sharing that come into being at the expense of sovereign powers that threaten to destroy them. Azoulay argues that the “civil” must be distinguished from the “political” as the interest that citizens have in themselves, in others, in their shared forms of coexistence, as well as in the world they create and transform. Azoulay’s book sketches out a new horizon of civil living for citizens as well as subjects denied citizenship—inevitable partners in a reality they are invited to imagine anew and to reconstruct. Beautifully produced with many illustrations, Civil Imagination is a provocative argument for photography as a civic practice capable of reclaiming civil power.