Description
| Product ID: | 9780367862688 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Act and Image |
| Subtitle: | The Emergence of Symbolic Imagination |
| Authors: | Author: Warren Colman |
| Page Count: | 330 |
| Subjects: | Archaeological theory, Archaeological theory, Analytical and Jungian psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-04-01 |
