Lost Knowledge of the Imagination

Imagination is a core aspect of being human, allowing us to fully experience ourselves in relation to the world and reality. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation. In the seventeenth century, a new way of knowing the world and ourselves transformed human life: science. But its dominance came at a price, the marginalisation of another form of knowledge: imagination. Without this lost knowledge, the world is only half-alive. The imagination - often sidelined as a way of es...