Open AccessThe Uses of Imagination: A Preface
Author(s) -
Michael Allen Mikołajczak
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
logos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1533-791X
pISSN - 1091-6687
DOI - 10.1353/log.1997.0010
Subject(s) - theme (computing) , flannery , faith , logos bible software , poetry , sympathy , dignity , philosophy , literature , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , art , epistemology , psychology , theology , law , social psychology , computer science , political science , operating system
In many ways, what a new journal chooses to present first says a great deal about what it intends and how it may develop. In choosing the imagination as the theme of this first issue we took up a concept that has had a troubled history, has often been misunderstood or distorted, and, on top of everything, is difficult to define precisely. Often, the imagination is erroneously dismissed as delusory and dangerous. Even Shakespeare—that quintessential exemplar of imaginative insight, identification, and sympathy— had one of his characters equate the imagination with "seething brains" and reason with coolness.1 Thus, many were the reasons to
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