Imagination, the Junkyard of the Mind

The subject of the imagination represents a challenge to all disciplines, but especially to philosophy and anthropology, which take human cognition and behavior as their subjects. The ubiquity of imagination in all human activities suggests that this faculty is at the core of human species identity,...

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Published in:Evolutionary studies in imaginative culture 2017-10, Vol.1 (2), p.87-94
Main Author: Harpham, Geoffrey Galt
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
creativity
evolution
imagination
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Summary:The subject of the imagination represents a challenge to all disciplines, but especially to philosophy and anthropology, which take human cognition and behavior as their subjects. The ubiquity of imagination in all human activities suggests that this faculty is at the core of human species identity, but such ubiquity may also indicate that the term is insufficiently precise to be useful as a description of some particular feature of the human mind.
ISSN:2472-9876
DOI:10.26613/esic.1.2.50