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Act and Image: The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination

Act and Image: The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780367862688
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 155.264
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 330
Weight: 486g
Height: 151mm
Width: 228mm
Spine width: 25mm