| Act and Image: The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination Contributor(s): Colman, Warren (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367862689 ISBN-13: 9780367862688 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $40.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Mental Health - Psychology | Personality - Art | History - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 155.264 |
| LCCN: 2021003650 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 330 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How did humans develop the capacity for symbolic imagination? In this ground-breaking book, Warren Colman provides a reformulation of archetypal symbols as emergent from humans' embodied and affective engagement with their social and material environment. Beginning with the oldest known figurative image in the world, the 40,000-year-old Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel in Germany, he traces the emergence of symbolic imagination through the origins of language, the growth of human sociality and co-operation, and the creative use of material objects, from the earliest stone tools through the cave paintings and figures of Upper Paleolithic Europe and beyond. This leads to a consideration of how the imaginal world of the spirit may have come into being, not as separate from the material world but through active participation within a world alive with meaning. |