Before Imagination: Embodied Thought from Montaigne to Rousseau.0804751102 Before imagination; embodied em·bod·y tr.v. em·bod·ied, em·bod·y·ing, em·bod·ies 1. To give a bodily form to; incarnate. 2. To represent in bodily or material form: thought from Montaigne to Rousseau. Lyons, John D. Stanford U. Press 2005 282 pages $55.00 Hardcover PQ145 Before, that is, the modern conception of imagination, back when it was closely associated with the senses and so with the body, when it was a way of using the mind to simulate simulate - simulation bodily experience. Lyon (French, University of Virginia) investigates the importance of imagination before Romantics began promoting it as a kind of panacea Some antidote or remedy that completely solves a problem. Most so-called panaceas in this industry, if they survive at all, wind up sitting alongside and working with the products they were supposed to replace. , and before their critics, the anti-Romantic rationalists, seized seized (seised) n. 1) having ownership, commonly used in wills as "I give all the property of which I die seized as follows:...." 2) having taken possession of evidence for use in a criminal prosecution. 3) having taken property or a person by force. (See: seisin, seizure) on imagination as the eternal foe of reason and civilization. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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