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Lost Knowledge of the Imagination

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Lost Knowledge of the Imagination

By Gary Lachman

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About the book

Imagination is a core aspect of being human. Our imagination allows us to fully experience ourselves in relation to the world and reality. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation. Since the seventeenth century, however, imagination has been sidelined and dismissed as 'make believe'. Four centuries ago, a new way of knowing the world and ourselves emerged in the west and has gone on to dominate human life: science. Imagination has been marginalised - depicted as a way of escapin...Show more

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9781782504450

Publisher

Floris Books

Published year

2017

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1

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Lost Knowledge of the Imagination

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Paperback

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