Imagination: A Study in the History of Ideas by John Cocking
Cocking was very well known up to his death
Imagination
Summary
An exploration of the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The shifting definitions of imagination and its ambiguous relations with memory and reason are synthesised within an historical context.
Imagination Summary
About John Cocking
John Cocking, Penelope Murray
Table of Contents
1: The Greek Rationalists; 2: Imagination begins to be recognized; 3: The Neoplatonists; 4: Neoplatonism in Christian guise; 5: Holy images; 6: Imagination 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 1; Epilogue
Additional information
NPB9780415058070
9780415058070
0415058074
Imagination: A Study in the History of Ideas by John Cocking
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1991-12-12
316
N/A
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