More Than Real

More Than Real
Author: David Shulman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2012-04-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674059913

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From the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the imagination came to be recognized in South Indian culture as the defining feature of human beings. Shulman elucidates the distinctiveness of South Indian theories of the imagination and shows how they differ radically from Western notions of reality and models of the mind.