The conversion of imagination : from Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville /
From romanticism through postmodernism, the imagination has become an indispensable reference point for thinking about the self, culture, philosophy, and politics. How has imagination so thoroughly influenced our understanding of experience and its possibilities? In a bold reinterpretation of a cruc...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
2006.
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Series: | Harvard historical studies ;
151. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Pascal: Imagining Memory
- 2. The Imagination of Reason
- 3. Rousseau and the Revolution of Enlightenment
- 4. Illusion's Reflection: Rousseau's Julie
- 5. The Consuming Infinite
- 6. Rousseau and Restoration: Imagination and Memory
- 7. The Gravity of Illusion: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index