{"product_id":"lost-knowledge-of-the-imagination-9781782504450","title":"Lost Knowledge of the Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within us. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUntil the seventeenth century, the human imagination was celebrated. Since then, with the emergence of science as the dominant worldview, imagination has been marginalized -- depicted as a way of escaping reality, rather than knowing it more profoundly -- and its significance to our humanity has been downplayed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYet as we move further into the strange new dimensions of the twenty-first century, the need to regain this lost knowledge seems more necessary than ever before.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis insightful and inspiring book argues that, for the sake of our future in the world, we must reclaim the ability to imagine and redress the balance of influence between imagination and science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough the work of Owen Barfield, Goethe, Henry Corbin, Kathleen Raine, and others, and ranging from the teachings of ancient mystics to the latest developments in neuroscience, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Knowledge of the Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e draws us back to a philosophy and tradition that restores imagination to its rightful place, essential to our knowing reality to the full, and to our very humanity itself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Floris Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781782504450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d","brand":"Gary Lachman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38400553124021,"sku":"9781782504450","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bc5bf551-aa75-4e73-9e96-246431ad5b80.jpg?v=1612164620","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/lost-knowledge-of-the-imagination-9781782504450","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}