Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts is the first comprehensive collection of papers by philosophers examining the nature of imagination and its role in understanding and making art.
Imagination is a central concept in aesthetics with close ties to issues in the philosophy of mind and
the philosophy of language, yet it has not received the kind of sustained, critical attention it deserves. This collection of seventeen brand new essays critically examines just how and in what form the notion of imagination illuminates fundamental problems in the philosophy of art.
Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts tests the limits of the new theories of imagination and opens up several new avenues
of inquiry. It is split into three parts: Part One discusses imagination in relation to our emotional responses to fictions and the nature of narratives; Part Two considers how imagination relates to conceivability, knowledge and understanding; and Part Three examines the ways in which imagination can be exercised through the senses.
The volume will attract substantial interest in philosophers of art, as well
as those working on mental representation, emotion theory, perception and fiction. Working with examples which include Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat, Mahler's Seventh Symphony, and Oliver Stone's film JFK, these papers make a large contribution to developing our understanding of 'imagination' in new directions and setting the research agenda for the next decade.
Contributors include: Berys Gaut, Stacie Friend, Peter Goldie, James Shelley, Saam Trivedi, Matthew Kieran, Derek Matravers, Kathleen Stock, Eileen John, Roman Bonzon, Dominic McIver Lopes, David Davies, Christopher Williams, Tamar Szabo Gendler, Robert Hopkins and Gregory Curry. Berys Gaut, Stacie Friend, Peter Goldie, James Shelley, Saam Trivedi, Matthew Kieran, Derek Matravers, Kathleen Stock, Eileen John, Roman Bonzon, Dominic McIver Lopes, David Davies, Christopher Willia
Edited by:
Matthew Kieran (University of Leeds UK),
Dominic Lopes
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 780g
ISBN: 9780415305167
ISBN 10: 0415305160
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 17 April 2003
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part 1: Imagination, Narrative, and Emotion 1. Reasons, Emotions, and Fiction, Berys Gaut 2. How I Really Feel About JFK, Stacie Friend 3. Imagination and Emotion in Fiction, Peter Goldie 4. In Search of a Narrative, Matthew Kieran Part 2: Truth in Imagination 5. Fictional Assent and the (So-Called) Problem of Imaginative Resistance, Derek Matravers 6. The Owl, the Pussycat, and Other Impossible Tales, Kathleen Stock 7. Quarantining and Contagion, Fertility and Unproductivity, Tamar Szabo Gendler 8. Literature, Thought Experiments and the Value of Detail, Eileen John 9. The Aesthetic and ethical Value of Literature, Roman Bonzon 10. Imagining the Truth: An Account of Tragic Pleasure, James Shelley Part 3: Sensory Imagination 11. Seeing Things Twice Over, Christopher Williams 12. Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Dominic McIver Lopes 13. The Imaged, the Imagined, and the Imaginary, David Davies 14. Film and the Transcendental Imagination: Kant and Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, Melissa Zinkin 15. The Funerary Sadness of Mahler's Music, Saam Trivedi 16. Sculpture and Space, Robert Hopkins Part 4: Afterthoughts 17. The Capacities that Enable Us to Produce and Consume Art, Gregory Currie. Index
Matthew Kieran is Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at University of Leeds, UK. He is the author Revealing Art (2004), and editor of Media Ethics (1998), both published by Routledge. Dominic McIver Lopes is Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Distinguished University Scholar and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the editor (with Berys Gaut) of The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics.
Reviews for Imagination, Philosophy and the Arts
"""This collection of high quality papers, some historical and some contemporary in orientation, should do much to further debate on this crucial issue."" -Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland"
