{"product_id":"imagining-9780253214157","title":"Imagining","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescribes the essential forms which imagination assumes in everyday life. In a detailed analysis of the fundamental features of all imaginative experience, the author shows imagining to be eidetically distinct from perceiving and defines it as a radically autonomous act, involving a characteristic freedom of mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Casey's work is doubly valuable--for its major substantive contribution to our understanding of a significant mental activity, as well as for its exemplary presentation of the method of phenomenological analysis.\" --Contemporary Psychology   \"... an important addition to phenomenological philosophy and to the humanities generally.\" --Choice   \"This scrupulous, lucid study is destined to become a touchstone for all future writings on imagination.\" --Library Journal   \" ... deliberately and consistently phenomenological, oriented throughout to the basically intentional character of experience and disciplines by the requirement of proceeding by way of concrete description... an exceptionally well-written work.\" --International Philosophical Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface to the Second Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction The Problematic Place of Imagination\u003cbr\u003ePart One Preliminary Portrait\u003cbr\u003e1. Examples and First Approximations\u003cbr\u003e2. Imagining as Intentional\u003cbr\u003ePart Two Detailed Descriptions\u003cbr\u003e3. Spontaneity and Controlledness\u003cbr\u003e4. Self-Containedness and Self Evidence\u003cbr\u003e5. Indeterminacy and Pure Possibility\u003cbr\u003ePart Three Phenomenological Comparisons\u003cbr\u003e6. Imagining and Perceiving: Continuities\u003cbr\u003e7. Imagining and Perceiving: Discontinuities\u003cbr\u003ePart Four The Autonomy of Imagining\u003cbr\u003e8. The Nature of Imaginative Autonomy\u003cbr\u003e9. The Significance of Imaginative Autonomy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400645648727,"sku":"9780253214157","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253214157.jpg?v=1730471196","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/imagining-9780253214157","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}