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Imaginative horizons [electronic resource] : an essay in literary-philosophical anthropology / Vincent Crapanzano.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 260 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780226118758 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226118754 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imaginative horizons.DDC classification:
  • 128 22
LOC classification:
  • BD450 .C655 2004eb
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Contents:
Imaginative Horizons -- The Between -- Body, Pain, and Trauma -- Hope -- The Transgressive and the Erotic -- Remembrance -- World-Ending.
Summary: How do people make sense of their experiences? How do they understand possibility? How do they limit possibility? These questions are central to all the human sciences. Here, Vincent Crapanzano offers a powerfully creative new way to think about human experience: the notion of imaginative horizons. For Crapanzano, imaginative horizons are the blurry boundaries that separate the here and now from what lies beyond, in time and space. These horizons, he argues, deeply influence both how we experience our lives and how we interpret those experiences, and here sets himself the task of exploring the.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 Link to resource Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-254) and index.

Imaginative Horizons -- The Between -- Body, Pain, and Trauma -- Hope -- The Transgressive and the Erotic -- Remembrance -- World-Ending.

How do people make sense of their experiences? How do they understand possibility? How do they limit possibility? These questions are central to all the human sciences. Here, Vincent Crapanzano offers a powerfully creative new way to think about human experience: the notion of imaginative horizons. For Crapanzano, imaginative horizons are the blurry boundaries that separate the here and now from what lies beyond, in time and space. These horizons, he argues, deeply influence both how we experience our lives and how we interpret those experiences, and here sets himself the task of exploring the.

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