Imagination : a study in the history of ideas /

Main Author: Cocking, J. M.
Other Authors: Murray, Penelope.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Greek rationalists : Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics
  • 2. Imagination begins to be recognized : literary theorists and Neopythagoreans in the early centuries AD
  • 3. The Neoplatonists : imagination as the 'vehicle of the soul'
  • 4. Neoplatonims in Christian guise : the mystic way as the affirmation and negation of images
  • 5. Holy images
  • 6. Imaginations in Islam
  • 7. The western middle ages
  • 8. Ficino
  • 9. Ideas about poetry and painting in the Italian Renaissance
  • 10. The French Renaissance and after.