Lost Knowledge of the Imagination

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Lost Knowledge of the Imagination

The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within us. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation.
Until the seventeenth century, the human imagination was celebrated. Since then, with the emergence of science as the dominant worldview, imagination has been marginalised -- depicted as a way of escaping reality, rather than knowing it more profoundly -- and its significance to our humanity has been downplayed.
Yet as we move further into the strange new dimensions of the twenty-first century, the need to regain this lost knowledge seems more necessary than ever before.
This insightful and inspiring book argues that, for the sake of our future in the world, we must reclaim the ability to imagine and redress the balance of influence between imagination and science.
Through the work of Owen Barfield, Goethe, Henry Corbin, Kathleen Raine, and others, and ranging from the teachings of ancient mystics to the latest developments in neuroscience, The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination draws us back to a philosophy and tradition that restores imagination to its rightful place, essential to our knowing reality to the full, and to our very humanity itself.

Country	USA
Author	Gary Lachman
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781782504573
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Floris Books
Manufacturer	Floris Books
NumberOfPages	168
PublicationDate	2017-10-19
Publisher	Floris Books
ReleaseDate	2017-10-19
Studio	Floris Books

Lost Knowledge of the Imagination

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