Title: The conversion of imagination
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.
Subjects: History, Imagination (Philosophy), Rousseau, jean-jacques, 1712-1778, Pascal, blaise, 1623-1662, Tocqueville, alexis de, 1805-1859, Philosophy, history
People: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)