Imagination : a study in the history of ideas /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cocking, J. M.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 297 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Imagination (Philosophy) -- History. Imagination (Philosophy) History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11155406

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Other authors / contributors:	Murray, Penelope.
ISBN:	0203980816 9780203980811 9780415058070 0415058074 0415058074 9786610165049 6610165041 1280165049 9781280165047
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Explores the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The author looks at the writings of Aristotle and Plato, developments in the Middle Ages, with particular attention paid to parallel traditions in Islamic thought, Dante, and the Neo-platonists.
Other form:	Print version: Cocking, J.M. Imagination. London ; New York : Routledge, 1991

Table of Contents:

1. The Greek rationalists : Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics
2. Imagination begins to be recognized : literary theorists and Neopythagoreans in the early centuries AD
3. The Neoplatonists : imagination as the 'vehicle of the soul'
4. Neoplatonims in Christian guise : the mystic way as the affirmation and negation of images
5. Holy images
6. Imaginations in Islam
7. The western middle ages
8. Ficino
9. Ideas about poetry and painting in the Italian Renaissance
10. The French Renaissance and after.

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