Insight-Imagination: The Emancipation of Thought and the Modern World

By Douglas Sloan

Book Overview

Sloan argues that a fundamental transformation of our ideas about knowing, our selves, and our world is not only possible, but necessary. The key to this transformation lies in an understanding of insight-imagination--the involvement of the thinking, feeling, willing, valuing person in knowing. The possibility and mode of effecting this transformation is the subject of Insight-Imagination. Sloan examines alternative and potentially more constructive intellectual approaches as developed in the radical humanities and the world's great religious traditions. The author explores the role of education in the transformation of consciousness and the effect of this transformation on education.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313239193
• ISBN13: 9780313239199
• Release Date: October 1983
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant Commentary on Science and Culture

This book, ostensibly a book about education, is much more than that. Sloan has written a superb critique of the western mind's fascination with the scientific world-view, and the belittling consequences that this fascination has had upon the human soul. It responds brilliantly both to the forces of fundamentalism and the forces of atheism. Written with a rare combination of elegance and clarity, it is a book that can open minds and hearts to a much deeper understanding of our civilization.

Transforming

A good book is one that has interesting useful information, a very good book gives you principles to apply to an analysis of phenomena, but a great book includes the latter but transforms the framework of peceptions so that you never look at things in the same way again.This is a great book.