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TIM-Adrastea · “Thinking in Images. Herder’s Adrastea from 1801-03 up to nowadays”

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2017-03-15 → 2019-03-14
Финансиране от ЕС: 171 461 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-CAR

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„Мисленето в образи“ изследва как символите, аналогиите и сънищата участват в познанието, като се опира на трудовете на Йохан Готфрид Хердер. Това помага да се разбере връзката между въображението и логиката, както и как те влияят върху човешкото поведение.

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“Thinking in Images. Herder’s Adrastea from 1801-03 up to nowadays”

The research project analyses the notion of "thinking in images”, its historical roots and its relevance for actual debates. Thinking in images refers to a special way of thinking that differs from the logical and analytical thinking. To survey the notion of “thinking in images” deals with the role of mental images, symbols, visual representations, analogies in the process of knowledge and in many fields of culture. The researcher focused on Adrastea of Johann Gottfried Herder, an important work, which contains a clear definition of the notion of “thinking in images”. The examination of Herder's multidisciplinary attitude and thought adequate for an interdisciplinary study of the notion of “thinking in images”. The researcher surveys the role of images not only in respect to the theory of knowledge but also as concerns very special cases: dreams, mental health problems, memory, and childhood, all relevant topics both for Herder and in actual debates. By studying the historical roots of the "thinking in images", the researcher aims to offer a key to contribute the actual debates concerning the relationship between images/imagination and thinking/knowledge, association and analogies, which are of a great interest for the actual debates on human behaviour. Herder assigned to the "thinking in image" a pivotal role in knowledge, together with logical and conceptual reasoning. The cooperation between reason and imagination, concepts/ideas and images/analogies/symbols was clearly affirmed by Herder in his writings and especially in Adrastea and represents also today a very interesting element to understand human mind. Logical reason covers only one aspect of the huge potentialities of mind. As concerns the work Adrastea, great results are gained during this research period: this work was not a minor or less interesting writing of Herder but, on the contrary, it is useful to understand Herder's philosophical thought. Herder's Adrastea contains a huge amount of sources, that are the key to understand the real character of this work, which is not for specialists and learned people, but was conceived for all the people interested in learning several disciplines and for these reasons it is interesting also nowadays.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The research project “Thinking in Images. Herder’s Adrastea from 1801-03 up to today” will focus on the notion of thinking in images, which has a non-marginal position in the history of philosophy and science. Thinking in images means to refer, at the same time, to a complex system of forms and meanings, which continually changes itself and never follows a time sequence or a causal order. This is what distinguishes this special form of thinking from the logical sequence, from the reasoning by concepts. Analogies, metaphors, myths are only few examples of the way this ‘visual representation’ works. Such a kind of thinking characterises the children’s thought, mnemonic processes, dreams, mental illnesses, hallucinations; but also, it is possible to find it in the poetry, in mythologies and religions, in mystical visions, as well as in scientific visualisations and in the arts. We will try in this study to clarify the concept of thinking in images and to highlight its value within society and culture. The starting point of the research is one of the most significant authors in the history of philosophy and culture, J.G. HERDER (1744-1803). The researcher’s aim will be to make an Italian translation and a critical edition of the Adrastea (1801-1803), the last and most neglected of HERDER’s works. The researcher will show the importance of this work as regards the author’s position about this topic, thinking in images and will prepare a monography. HERDER edited this magazine the last years of his life and conceived it as a kind of fragmentary encyclopaedia, touching many aspects of the cultural life of his time (from politics to religion, from philosophy to science, from literature and music to esotericism and mystics). From this starting point, researcher will be able to start a multidisciplinary discussion on the topic through the organisation of seminars, workshop and international conferences with the involvement of scholars of different fields of research.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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