There is an intriguing article at Aeon by Stephen Asma on the importance of imaginative cognition. In a desire to move beyond the binary of reason and emotion, facts and values, he writes:
“After years of working on the problem, and countless conversations, it seems to me that what is required is a third path: to enter the chasm itself, or descend deeper into a submerged mythopoetic cognition, and develop an entirely new way of understanding learning that embraces the true engine of the mind – imagination.”
Asma has been featured on this blog previously in connection with his writing on monster theory and his book On Monsters. You can read the Aeon piece titled “Imaginology” for more on that topic.
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