The conversion of imagination
Subtitle: from Pascal through Rousseau to Tocqueville
By: Matthew W. Maguire.
Series: Harvard historical studies ;; 151
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.; Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.; Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.; Imagination (Philosophy) -- History.
Description: "In a reinterpretation of a crucial development in modern European intellectual history, Matthew W. Maguire uncovers a history of French thought that casts imagination as a dominant faculty in our experience of the world. The Conversion of Imagination will interest a range of readers across intellectual history, political theory, literary and cultural studies, and the history of religious thought."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Harvard University, 1999) presented under the title:  The conversion of Enlightenment.