Act and Image - The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination (Paperback)

How did humans develop the capacity for symbolic imagination? In this ground-breaking book, Warren Colman provides a reformulation of archetypal symbols as emergent from humans' embodied and affective engagement with their social and material environment. Beginning with the oldest known figurative image in the world, the 40,000-year-old Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel in Germany, he traces the emergence of symbolic imagination through the origins of language, the growth of human sociality and co-operation, and the creative use of material objects, from the earliest stone tools through the cave paintings and figures of Upper Paleolithic Europe and beyond. This leads to a consideration of how the imaginal world of the spirit may have come into being, not as separate from the material world but through active participation within a world alive with meaning.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2021
First published:	2020
Authors:	Warren Colman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	330
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-86268-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeological theory Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy
LSN:	0-367-86268-9
Barcode:	9780367862688

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