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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMaguire, Matthew W.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Conversion of Imagination :
_bFrom Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville /
_cMatthew W. Maguire.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2006]
264 4 _c2006
300 _a1 online resource (298 p.)
336 _atext
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490 0 _aHarvard Historical Studies ;
_v151
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Pascal: Imagining Memory --
_t2. The Imagination of Reason --
_t3. Rousseau and the Revolution of Enlightenment --
_t4. Illusion’s Reflection: Rousseau’s Julie --
_t5. The Consuming Infinite --
_t6. Rousseau and Restoration: Imagination and Memory --
_t7. The Gravity of Illusion: Alexis de Tocqueville --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aFrom romanticism through postmodernism, the imagination has become an indispensable reference point for thinking about the self, culture, philosophy, and politics. How has imagination so thoroughly influenced our understanding of experience and its possibilities? In a bold reinterpretation of a crucial development in modern European intellectual history, Matthew W. Maguire uncovers a history of French thought that casts the imagination as a dominant faculty in our experience of the world. Pascal, turning Augustinianism inside out, radically expanded the powers of imagination implicit in the work of Montaigne and Descartes, and made imagination the determinative faculty of everything from meaning and beauty to political legitimacy and happiness. Maguire traces the ways that others, including Montesquieu and Voltaire, developed and assigned limits to this exalted imagination. But it is above all Rousseau's diverse writings that engage with an expansive imagination. And in the writings of Rousseau's careful readers, particularly Alexis de Tocqueville, imagination is increasingly understood as the medium for an ineffable human freedom against the constrictive power of a new order in politics and culture. Original and thought-provoking, The Conversion of Imagination will interest a range of readers across intellectual history, political theory, literary and cultural studies, and the history of religious thought.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650 0 _aImagination (Philosophy)
_xHistory.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/9780674274969?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674274969
856 4 2 _3Cover
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999 _c191113
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