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Will, Imagination, and Reason - Babbitt, Croce and the Problem of Reality (Hardcover)
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Will, Imagination, and Reason - Babbitt, Croce and the Problem of Reality (Hardcover)
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Will, Imagination, and Reason sets forth a new understanding of
reality and knowledge with far-reaching implications for the study
of man and society. Employing a systematic approach, Claes Ryn goes
to the philosophical depths to rethink and reconstitute the
epistemology of the humanities and social sciences. He shows that
will and imagination, together, constitute our basic outlook on
life and that reason derives its material and general orientation
from the interaction between them. The imaginative master-minds
novelists, poets, composers, painters, and others powerfully affect
the sensibility and direction of society. Sometimes a distorting,
self-serving willfulness at the base of their visions draws
civilization, including reason, into dangerous illusion. More
penetrating and balanced vision and rationality spring from a
different quality of will. Ryn explains the kind of interplay
between will, imagination, and reason that is conducive to a
deepened sense of reality and to intellectual understanding. He
argues that human life and self-knowledge are inescapably
historical. In developing his dialectical view of intellect, he
draws from Irving Babbitt, Benedetto Croce, and other philosophers
to refute positivistic, formalistic, and ahistorical theories of
knowledge and to develop his alternative. Advancing a systematic
epistemological argument, Ryn throws much new light on the nature
of reason but also on central issues of ethics and aesthetics. This
trenchant and original work is indispensable to philosophers,
social, political and cultural theorists, literary scholars, and
historians.
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