The Imagination
Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Imagination "
English | ISBN: 1032933305 | 2025 | 244 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1032933305 | 2025 | 244 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
'Every theory of imagination must satisfy two requirements. It must account for the spontaneous discrimination that the mind makes between its images and its perceptions, and it must explain the role that the image plays in the operation of thought. Whatever form it has taken, the classical conception of the image could not fulfil these two essential tasks.' - Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre's L’Imagination was published in 1936 when he was thirty years old. The Imagination is Sartre’s first full philosophical work, presenting some of the basic arguments concerning phenomenology, consciousness, and intentionality that were to mark his philosophy as a whole and be so influential in the course of twentieth-century philosophy.
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