Tag: Imagination

Free Download A Brain for Innovation: The Neuroscience of Imagination and Abstract Thinking by Min W. Jung
English | November 28th, 2023 | ISBN: 0231213360 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 8.00 MB
What sets humans apart from other animals? Perhaps more than anything else, it is the capacity for innovation. The accumulation of discoveries throughout history, big and small, has enabled us to build global civilizations and gain power to shape our environment. But what makes humans as a species so innovative?

Free Download David H. Rosen, "The Archetypal Imagination (Volume 8) (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology)"
English | 2002 | pages: 156 | ISBN: 1585442682 | PDF | 72,2 mb
Also available in an open-access, full-text edition athttp://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/85764

Free Download Liliane Campos, "Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance"
English | ISBN: 1800647506 | 2022 | 420 pages | PDF | 54 MB
This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fiction, poetry, comics and performance. The gathered case studies investigate how recent creative work reframes the human within microscopic or macroscopic scales, from cellular biology to systems ecology, and engages with the ethical, philosophical, and political issues raised by the twenty-first century’s shifting views of life. The collection thus examines literature and performance as spaces that shape our contemporary biological imagination.

Free Download The Mnemonic Imagination: Remembering as Creative Practice (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies) by Michael Pickering, Emily Keightley
English | July 31, 2012 | ISBN: 0230243363, 1349318299 | True EPUB | 247 pages | 0.7 MB
An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination.

Free Download Imagination and the Meaningful Brain (Bradford Books) by Arnold H. H Modell
English | August 11, 2006 | ISBN: 0262633434 | 253 pages | PDF | 7.55 Mb
The ultimate goal of the cognitive sciences is to understand how the brain works-how it turns "matter into imagination." In Imagination and the Meaningful Brain, psychoanalyst Arnold Modell claims that subjective human experience must be included in any scientific explanation of how the mind/brain works. Contrary to current attempts to describe mental functioning as a form of computation, his view is that the construction of meaning is not the same as information processing. The intrapsychic complexities of human psychology, as observed through introspection and empathic knowledge of other minds, must be added to the third-person perspective of cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

Free Download Alexander M. Schlutz, "Mind’s World: Imagination and Subjectivity from Descartes to Romanticism "
English | ISBN: 0295988932 | 2009 | 344 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Winner of the 2009 International Conference on Romanticism’s Jean-Pierre Barricelli Award for the best book in Romanticism studies

Free Download Beyond human imagination: the existence of parallel worlds from the point of view of people practicing esotericisms by Samuel Greenberg
English | July 12, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D9CYYSB5 | 262 pages | EPUB | 0.59 Mb
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Free Download Lee Easton, "The Influence of Imagination: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy as Agents of Social Change"
English | ISBN: 0786432306 | 2008 | 236 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This collection of essays examines the potential connections between speculative fiction and actual social change. Through a variety of approaches, the contributors explore whether consumers of science fiction and fantasy narratives can experience a real shift in their worldviews as a result of that consumption. Topics include the utopian vision of California in Ursula K. LeGuin’s Always Coming Home, the changing role of women in science fiction pulp magazines, and the representation of progress and social change in popular graphic novels.

Free Download Anna Höglund, "The Enduring Fantastic: Essays on Imagination and Western Culture"
English | ISBN: 1476680124 | 2021 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 10 MB
Fantastic fiction is traditionally understood as Western genre literature such as fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Expanding on this understanding, these essays explore how the fantastic has been used in Western societies since the Middle Ages as a tool for organizing and materializing abstractions in order to make sense of the present social order. Disciplines represented here include literature studies, gender studies, biology, ethnology, archeology, history, religion, game studies, cultural sociology, and film studies. Individual essays cover topics such as the fantastic creatures of medieval chronicle, mummy medicine in eighteenth-century Sweden, how fears of disease filtered through the universal and adaptable vampire, the gender aspects of goddess worship in the secular West, ecocentrism in fantasy fiction, how videogames are dealing with the remediation of heritage, and more.

Free Download The Electoral Imagination: Literature, Legitimacy, and Other Rigged Systems
by Kent Puckett
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1009206656 | 379 Pages | PDF | 2.9 MB