{"product_id":"a-world-not-of-this-alfredo-ferrarin-9781350544789","title":"A World Not of This World: The Reality of Images and Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIs an image merely an inferior copy of the actual thing? Is imagination simply an escape from reality? In both cases, Alfredo Ferrarin thinks not and, breaking classical assumptions that images are exclusively reproductions and imagination is a secondary faculty, this book provides a rich account of what images really are and what imagination can do. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFerrarin begins by charting a history of the philosophy of imagination in the West, from antiquity to the present. With a lightness of touch throughout, he brings a broad range of thinkers into dialogue, from Aristotle, Kant and Freud to Musil, Gadda and Sendak. He then proceeds to examine the twofold nature of every image - the image itself and what it is an image of - before distinguishing between natural, artificial, mental and memory images. The final chapters probe the cognitive functions of imagination. Comparing and relating how we conceptualize imagination to how we think about the concept of reality, Ferrarin contends that, whilst it can be, imagination is not always a flight from reality; it is also a way of figuring out what is real. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn an age where the number of images we view daily is growing exponentially, \u003ci\u003eA World Not of this World \u003c\/i\u003ebroadens our understanding not only of the nature of images and imagination, but of their power to transform the way we see the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alfredo Ferrarin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350544787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350544789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d","brand":"Alfredo Ferrarin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46974575968511,"sku":"9781350544789","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6a418f02-4e6c-4bbb-8f50-f04a07a9af25.jpg?v=1750875433","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-world-not-of-this-alfredo-ferrarin-9781350544789","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}