Douglas Hedley

Living Forms of the Imagination (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"This book is essential reading for those interested in the imagination, epistemology, naturalism, and the philosophy of religion." - Charles Taliaferro, Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College, Minnesota The role of imagination in psychology, ethics and aesthetics provides a good analogy for thinking about the imagination in religious belief. in dealing with the inner lives of other human beings, moral values or aesthetic qualities we need to employ the imagination: to suppose, form hypotheses, empathize or imaginatively engage with alien people or worlds in order to understand. Just as we use the imagination to relate to other minds, appreciate beauty and understand goodness, we need imagination to engage with God's action in the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567551276
• Artikelnr.: 40773966

Autorenporträt

Douglas Hedley is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge, UK. A past President of the European Society for the Philosophy of Religion, he has been visiting Professor at the Sorbonne and holder of the Alan Richardson lectureship at Durham University. He delivered the Teape Lectures in India in 2007. His former publications include Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion (Cambridge University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Prologue
1. Religion, Romanticism and Imagining Modernity
2. The Creative Imagination
3. The Experience of God: Poetry, Enchantment and the Mood of Ecstatic
Imagination
4. Religion: Fantasy, or Legitimate Longing?
5. The Problem of Metaphysics
6. Myths, Dreams and Other Stories
7. Inspired Images, Angels and the Imaginal World
8. Social Imaginary
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index of Subjects
Index of Names