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The chapter provides a history of the concept of imagination from ancient Greece to contemporary Western world. It introduces the main theoretical framework and authors, who are used in this book to develop the concept of imaginative processes as higher mental function.
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Vico draws upon the epistemology of the word “poetic,” coming from ancient Greek verb poiein, whose main meaning is “making.” So, for Vico, poetry was a form of “making,” of creating the human reality.
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Tateo, L. (2020). A Brief History of an Unachieved Definition. In: A Theory of Imagining, Knowing, and Understanding. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38025-0_4
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