Imagination is an outstanding contribution to a notoriously elusive
and confusing subject. It skillfully interrelates problems in
philosophy, the history of ideas and literary theory and criticism,
tracing the evolution of the concept of imagination from Hume and
Kant in the eighteenth century to Ryle, Sartre and Wittgenstein in
the twentieth. She strongly belies that the cultivation of
imagination should be the chief aim of education and one of her
objectives in writing the book has been to put forward reasons why
this is so. Purely philosophical treatment of the concept is shown
to be related to its use in the work of Coleridge and Wordsworth,
who she considers to be the creators of a new kind of awareness
with more than literary implications. The purpose of her historical
account is to suggest that the role of imagination in our
perception and thought is more pervasive than may at first sight
appear, and that the thread she traces is an important link joining
apparently different areas of our experience. She argues that
imagination is an essential element in both our awareness of the
world and our attaching of value to it.
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