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Imagination by Mary Warnock. -- is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Imagination about?
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
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mary Warnock. --
- Publisher
- Berkeley: University of California Press
- Published
- 1976
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520037243
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Fiction, Psychology, Philosophy
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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