{"product_id":"thinking-through-the-imagination-john-kaag-9780823254934","title":"Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition","description":"Use your imagination! The demand is as important as it is confusing. What is the imagination? What is its value? Where does it come from? And where is it going in a time when even the obscene seems overdone and passé? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book takes up these questions and argues for the centrality of imagination in human cognition. It traces the development of the imagination in Kant's critical philosophy (particularly the \u003cem\u003eCritique of Aesthetic Judgment\u003c\/em\u003e) and claims that the insights of Kantian aesthetic theory, especially concerning the nature of creativity, common sense, and genius, influenced the development of nineteenth-century American philosophy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book identifies the central role of the imagination in the philosophy of Peirce, a role often overlooked in analytic treatments of his thought. The final chapters pursue the observation made by Kant and Peirce that imaginative genius is a type of natural gift (ingenium) and must in some way be continuous with the creative force of nature. It makes this final turn by way of contemporary studies of metaphor, embodied cognition, and cognitive neuroscience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Kaag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823254933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823254934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2015 pg. 1327","brand":"John Kaag","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926557098239,"sku":"9780823254934","price":98.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_87c79c46-8c48-49d3-89a2-48989be342d5.jpg?v=1681083731","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thinking-through-the-imagination-john-kaag-9780823254934","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}