Author : Douglas Hedley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 1501302655
The Iconic Imagination
Douglas Hedley
The Iconic Imagination
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The Iconic Imagination
Douglas Hedley
Author : Douglas Hedley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441151919
The Iconic Imagination by Douglas Hedley Pdf
Is it merely an accident of English etymology that 'imagination' is cognate with 'image'? Despite the iconoclasm shared to a greater or lesser extent by all Abrahamic faiths, theism tends to assert a link between beauty, goodness and truth, all of which are viewed as Divine attributes. Douglas Hedley argues that religious ideas can be presented in a sensory form, especially in aesthetic works. Drawing explicitly on a Platonic metaphysics of the image as a bearer of transcendence, The Iconic Imagination shows the singular capacity and power of images to represent the transcendent in the traditions of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam. In opposition to cold abstraction and narrow asceticism, Hedley shows that the image furnishes a vision of the eternal through the visible and temporal.
The Iconic Imagination
Douglas Hedley
Author : Douglas Hedley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441176073
The Iconic Imagination by Douglas Hedley Pdf
Is it merely an accident of English etymology that 'imagination' is cognate with 'image'? Despite the iconoclasm shared to a greater or lesser extent by all Abrahamic faiths, theism tends to assert a link between beauty, goodness and truth, all of which are viewed as Divine attributes. Douglas Hedley argues that religious ideas can be presented in a sensory form, especially in aesthetic works. Drawing explicitly on a Platonic metaphysics of the image as a bearer of transcendence, The Iconic Imagination shows the singular capacity and power of images to represent the transcendent in the traditions of Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Islam. In opposition to cold abstraction and narrow asceticism, Hedley shows that the image furnishes a vision of the eternal through the visible and temporal.
The History of Religious Imagination in Christian Platonism
Christian Hengstermann
Author : Christian Hengstermann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350172982
The History of Religious Imagination in Christian Platonism by Christian Hengstermann Pdf
This collection provides the first in-depth introduction to the theory of the religious imagination put forward by renowned philosopher Douglas Hedley, from his earliest essays to his principal writings. Featuring Hedley's inaugural lecture delivered at Cambridge University in 2018, the book sheds light on his robust concept of religious imagination as the chief power of the soul's knowledge of the Divine and reveals its importance in contemporary metaphysics, ethics and politics. Chapters trace the development of the religious imagination in Christian Platonism from Late Antiquity to British Romanticism, drawing on Origen, Henry More and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, before providing a survey of alternative contemporary versions of the concept as outlined by Karl Rahner, René Girard and William P. Alston, as well as within Indian philosophy. By bringing Christian Platonist thought into dialogue with contemporary philosophy and theology, the volume systematically reveals the relevance of Hedley's work to current debates in religious epistemology and metaphysics. It offers a comprehensive appraisal of the historical contribution of imagination to religious understanding and, as such, will be of great interest to philosophers, theologians and historians alike.
Living Forms of the Imagination
Douglas Hedley
Author : Douglas Hedley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567551276
Living Forms of the Imagination by Douglas Hedley Pdf
"This book is essential reading for those interested in the imagination, epistemology, naturalism, and the philosophy of religion." - Charles Taliaferro, Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College, Minnesota The role of imagination in psychology, ethics and aesthetics provides a good analogy for thinking about the imagination in religious belief. in dealing with the inner lives of other human beings, moral values or aesthetic qualities we need to employ the imagination: to suppose, form hypotheses, empathize or imaginatively engage with alien people or worlds in order to understand. Just as we use the imagination to relate to other minds, appreciate beauty and understand goodness, we need imagination to engage with God's action in the world.
The Thread of Life
Richard Wollheim
Author : Richard Wollheim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1986-05-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521310563
The Thread of Life by Richard Wollheim Pdf
In this distinguished book, first published in 1984, Richard Wollheim offers an original approach to the philosophical understanding of a person. Countering prevailing theories on the nature of persons, Wollheim submits an account of the mind dynamically conceived and proposes that we take as fundamental the process of living as a person. To illuminate this process, the author draws on psychoanalysis and literature, in particular the case studies of Freud and the writings of Proust. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times
Christos Lynteris
Author : Christos Lynteris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030723040
Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times by Christos Lynteris Pdf
This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The chapters in this book illuminate to what extent the image of plague has not simply reflected, but also impacted the way in which the disease is experienced in different historical periods. The book asks what is the contribution of the entanglement between epidemic image and imagination to the persistence of plague as a category of human suffering across so many centuries, in spite of profound shifts in our medical understanding of the disease. What is it that makes plague such a visually charismatic subject? And why is the medical, religious and lay imagination of plague so consistently determined by the visual register? In answering these questions, this volume takes the study of plague images beyond its usual, art-historical framework, so as to examine them and their relation to the imagination of plague from medical, historical, visual anthropological, and postcolonial perspectives.
Social Imaginaries: Volume 1, issue 2 (Autumn 2015)
Jeremy Smith,Suzi Adams
Author : Jeremy Smith,Suzi Adams
Publisher : Zeta Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786066970099
Social Imaginaries: Volume 1, issue 2 (Autumn 2015) by Jeremy Smith,Suzi Adams Pdf
Social Imaginaries inquires into complexes of cultural meaning and cultural projects of power.
A Kids Book About Imagination
LeVar Burton
Author : LeVar Burton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780744090253
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.
Einstein, History, and Other Passions
Gerald James Holton
Author : Gerald James Holton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674004337
Einstein, History, and Other Passions by Gerald James Holton Pdf
"[The] book makes a wonderfully cohesive whole. It is rich in ideas, elegantly expressed. I highly recommend it to any serious student of science and culture."--Lucy Horwitz, Boston Book Review "An important and lasting contribution to a more profound understanding of the place of science in our culture."--Hans C. von Baeyer, Boston Sunday Globe "[Holton's] themes are central to an understanding of the nature of science, and Holton does an excellent job of identifying and explaining key features of the scientific enterprise, both in the historical sense and in modern science...I know of no better informed scientist who has studied the nature of science for half a century."--Ron Good, Science and Education Through his rich exploration of Einstein's thought, Gerald Holton shows how the best science depends on great intuitive leaps of imagination, and how science is indeed the creative expression of the traditions of Western civilization.
Intuition as Conscious Experience
Ole Koksvik
Author : Ole Koksvik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351809962
Intuition as Conscious Experience by Ole Koksvik Pdf
Is torturing the innocent OK? Just now something happened: it seemed to you that torturing the innocent is wrong. What kind of mental state were you in? What is its nature? Perhaps you now believe that torturing the innocent is wrong because it just seemed to you that it is. If so, that seems appropriate. But is it really, and if so, what could explain this? In this book, Koksvik argues these mental states form a psychological kind called ‘intuition’, and that having an intuition indeed justifies you in believing what it says. What explains this, he argues, is how similar intuition is to perception. Through a detailed examination he shows that intuition, just like perception, is a conscious experience, and that the two experience types have important properties in common, in virtue of which they can both justify belief. In sharp contrast to traditional thought, Koksvik argues that intuition is completely unrestricted in content: we have intuitions about morality and metaphysics, but also about all sorts of everyday things, like danger or trustworthiness, and in all cases they can justify. The use of intuition is thus not only a legitimate part of philosophical and scientific practice, it also plays a pervasive, important and legitimate role in all of our everyday rational lives.
Song and Significance
Dinda L. Gorlée
Author : Dinda L. Gorlée
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789042016873
Song and Significance by Dinda L. Gorlée Pdf
Vocal translation is an old art, but the interpretive feeling, skill and craft have expanded into a relatively new area in translation studies. Vocal translation is the translation of the poetic discourse in the hybrid art of the musicopoetic (or poeticomusical) forms, shapes and skills. This symbiotic construct harmonizes together the conflicting roles of music and language in face-to-face singing performances. ...] In opera, folksong, hymn and art song, as well as in operetta, musical song and popular song, we have musical genres allied to a libretto with lyrical text. A libretto is a linguistic textwhich is a pre-existing work of art, but is subordinated to the musical text. The essays in this volume provide interpretive models for the juxtaposition of different orders of the singing sign-events in different languages, extending the meaning and range of the musical and literary concepts, and putting the mixed signs to a true-and-false test.
A William V. Spanos Reader
Daniel T. O'Hara,Michelle Martin,Donald Pease
Author : Daniel T. O'Hara,Michelle Martin,Donald Pease
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810130937
A William V. Spanos Reader by Daniel T. O'Hara,Michelle Martin,Donald Pease Pdf
The American critic William V. Spanos, a pioneer of postmodern theory and co-founder of one of its principal organs, the journal boundary 2, is, in the words of A William V. Spanos Reader coeditor Daniel T. O’Hara, everything that current post-modern theory is accused of not being: polemical, engaged, prophetic, passionate. Informed by his experience as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Spanos saw dire con-sequences for life in modernist aesthetic experiments, and he thereafter imbued his work with a constructive aspect ever in the name of more life. A William V. Spanos Reader collects Spanos’s most important critical essays, providing both an introduc-tion to his prophetic, visionary work and a provocation to the practice of humanistic criticism.
Early Postmodernism
Paul A. Bové
Author : Paul A. Bové
Publisher : Boundary 2 Book
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015034878648
Early Postmodernism by Paul A. Bové Pdf
In the decade that followed 1972, the journal boundary 2 consistently published many of the most distinguished and most influential statements of an emerging literary postmodernism. Recognizing postmodernism as a dominant force in culture, particularly in the literary and narrative imagination, the journal appeared when literary critical study in the United States was in a period of theory-induced ferment. The fundamental relations between postmodernism and poststructuralism were being initially examined and the effort to formulate a critical sense of the postmodern was underway. In this volume, Paul A. Bové, the current editor of boundary 2, has gathered many of those foundational essays and, as such, has assembled a basic text in the history of postmodernism. Essays by noted cultural and literary theorists join with Bové's contemporary preface to represent the important and unique moment in recent intellectual history when postmodernism was no longer seen primarily as an architectural term, had not yet come to describe the wide range of culture it does now, but was finding power and place in the literary realm. These essays show that the history of postmodernism and its attendant critical theories are both more complex and more deeply bound with literary criticism than often is acknowledged today. Early Postmodernism demonstrates not only the significance of these literary studies, but also the role played by literary critical postmodernism in making possible newer forms of critical and cultural studies. Contributors. Barry Alpert, Charles Altieri, David Antin, Harold Bloom, Paul A. Bové, Hélène Cixous, Gerald Gillespie, Ihab Hassan, Joseph N. Riddel, William, V. Spanos, Catharine R. Stimpson, Cornel West
The Rule of Metaphor
Paul Ricoeur
Author : Paul Ricoeur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134381685
The Rule of Metaphor by Paul Ricoeur Pdf
First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.