Imagination and Time

Mary Warnock (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

1994
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-19019-6 (ISBN)

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Lucid exploration of central themes from science, philosophy, literature and religious ideas. Accessible and provocative discussion of the imagination and time. Warnock is a leading public figure in the UK.

All religion and much philosophy has been concerned with the contrast between the ephemeral and the eternal. Human beings have always sought ways to overcome time, and to prove that death is not the end. This book consists then in an exploration of certain closely related ideas: personal identity, time, history and our commitment to the future, and the role of imagination in life.

Mary Warnock was born in Winchester and educated at St Swithun's School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford for fifteen years, and Headmistress of the Oxford High School for six. She was Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1984 till 1991, and became a Life Peer in 1985. She has chaired various Government committees, and written books on philosophy and on education. She is married to Sir Geoffrey Warnock, and they live in Wiltshire.

Preface. 1. Introduction: The Inner and the Outer World.

2. Imagination and the Idea of Genius.

3. Imaginative Interpretations.

4. The Symbolic.

5. Stories.

6. Personal Identity.

7. Autobiography.

8. The Future.

9. Consequences.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.9.1994
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 229 mm
Gewicht	312 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	0-631-19019-8 / 0631190198
ISBN-13	978-0-631-19019-6 / 9780631190196
Zustand	Neuware