A radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images
Here, in English translation for the first time, is Gilbert Simondon's fundamental reconception of the mental image and the theory of imagination and invention. Drawing on a vast range of mid-twentieth-century theoretical resources-from experimental psychology, cybernetics, and ethology to the phenomenological reflections of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty-Imagination and Invention provides a comprehensive account of the mental image and adds a vital new dimension to the theory of psychical individuation in Simondon's earlier, highly influential work.
Simondon traces the development of the mental image through four phases: first a bundle of motor anticipations, the image becomes a cognitive system that mediates the organism's relation to its milieu, then a symbolic and abstract integration of motor and affective experience to, finally, invention, a solution to a problem of life that requires the externalization of the mental image and the creation of a technical object. An image cannot be understood from the perspective of one phase alone, he argues, but only within the trajectory of its progressive metamorphosis.
| ISBN: | 9781517914455 |
| Publication date: | 22nd February 2023 |
| Author: | Gilbert Simondon |
| Publisher: | Univocal Publishing an imprint of University Of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Series: | A Univocal Book |
| Genres: |
Media studies Western philosophy from c 1800 Cognition and cognitive psychology |
A radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images
Here, in English translation for the first time, is Gilbert Simondon's fundamental reconception of the mental image and the theory of imagination and invention. Drawing on a vast range of mid-twentieth-century theoretical resources-from experimental psychology, cybernetics, and ethology to the phenomenological reflections of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty-Imagination and Invention provides a comprehensive account of the mental image and adds a vital new dimension to the theory of psychical individuation in Simondon's earlier, highly influential work.
Simondon traces the development of the mental image through four phases: first a bundle of motor anticipations, the image becomes a cognitive system that mediates the organism's relation to its milieu, then a symbolic and abstract integration of motor and affective experience to, finally, invention, a solution to a problem of life that requires the externalization of the mental image and the creation of a technical object. An image cannot be understood from the perspective of one phase alone, he argues, but only within the trajectory of its progressive metamorphosis.
Imagination and Invention features in the following genres: Media studies, Western philosophy from c 1800, Cognition and cognitive psychology
Imagination and Invention is available in Paperback
Imagination and Invention was written by Gilbert Simondon and published by Univocal Publishing an imprint of University Of Minnesota Press
Imagination and Invention has 248 pages
Yes it is part of A Univocal Book series
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