ABSTRACT
What does imagination do for our perception of the world? Why should reality be broken off from our imagining of it? It was not always thus, and in these essays, Tim Ingold sets out to heal the break between reality and imagination at the heart of modern thought and science. Imagining for Real joins with a lifeworld ever in creation, attending to its formative processes, corresponding with the lives of its human and nonhuman inhabitants. Building on his two previous essay collections, The Perception of the Environment and Being Alive , this book rounds off the extraordinary intellectual project of one of the world’s most renowned anthropologists.
Offering hope in troubled times, these essays speak to coming generations in a language that surpasses disciplinary divisions. They will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for students in fi elds ranging from art, aesthetics, architecture and archaeology to philosophy, psychology, human geography, comparative literature and theology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |9 pages
General introduction
part I|70 pages
Creating the world
chapter Chapter 1|14 pages
Creation beyond creativity
chapter Chapter 2|12 pages
Landscapes of perception, landscapes of imagination
chapter Chapter 3|11 pages
Life in a whirl
chapter Chapter 4|9 pages
Evolution in the minor key; or, the soul of wisdom
chapter Chapter 5|20 pages
Dreaming of dragons
part II|68 pages
Light, sound and experience
part III|73 pages
Surface tensions
chapter Chapter 10|13 pages
The conical lodge at the centre of the earth-sky world
chapter Chapter 11|14 pages
What if the city were an ocean, and its buildings ships?
chapter Chapter 13|13 pages
On opening the book of surfaces
part IV|61 pages
Material thinking
chapter Chapter 16|13 pages
Thinking through the cello
chapter Chapter 17|17 pages
In the gathering shadows of material things
chapter Chapter 18|11 pages
The world in a basket
part V|95 pages
Life as a whole