Imaginative horizons : an essay in literary-philosophical anthropology /

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Author / Creator:Crapanzano, Vincent, 1939-
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11227378
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ISBN:9780226118758
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) and index.
English.
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Summary:How do people make sense of their experiences? How do they understand possibility? How do they limit possibility? These questions are central to all the human sciences. Here, Vincent Crapanzano offers a powerfully creative new way to think about human experience: the notion of imaginative horizons. For Crapanzano, imaginative horizons are the blurry boundaries that separate the here and now from what lies beyond, in time and space. These horizons, he argues, deeply influence both how we experience our lives and how we interpret those experiences, and here sets himself the task of exploring the.
Other form:Print version: Crapanzano, Vincent, 1939- Imaginative horizons. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004 9780226118734