| Description |
1 online resource (195 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's introduction; Acknowledgements; 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 after1; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Imagination (Philosophy) -- History
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Murray, Penelope
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| ISBN |
9780203980811 |
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0203980816 |
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