Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau

by John D. Lyons

Before imagination became the transcendent and creative faculty promoted by the Romantics, it was for something quite different. Not reserved to a privileged few, imagination was instead considered a universal ability that each person could direct in practical ways. To imagine something meant to form in the mind a replica of a thing--its taste, its sound, and other physical attributes. At the end of the Renaissance, there was a movement to encourage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804751102
• ISBN13: 9780804751100
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"