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London and New York: Routledge, 2013. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". xvii, 297pp. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Bump to bottom corner of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The origins, nature, function and effects of imagination have engrossed writers, theologians, philosophers and practitioners of the arts across the ages; its influence on painting and music continues to be debated. It has been simultaneously feared as a dangerous, uncontrollable force and revered as the supreme visionary power. Cocking's Imagination is an exploration of the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The book opens with a treatment of imagination in the writings of Aristotle and Plato. Developments in the Middle Ages are traced, with particular attention to the parallel tradition in Islamic thought of the period and the book pursues the concept through the theories of Dante and the…
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Routledge, London and New York, 1991. First edition.. Hardback.. VG in VG+ dust jacket (light pencil marks in a few margins). DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover. From the library of MP Denis Healey, and signed by him.
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