@article{aup:/content/journals/10.5117/ANTW2013.1.BOER, author = "de Boer, Sander W.", title = "De ambivalente verbeeldingskracht", journal= "Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte", year = "2013", volume = "105", number = "1", pages = "33-39", doi = "https://doi.org/10.5117/ANTW2013.1.BOER", url = "https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/ANTW2013.1.BOER", publisher = "Amsterdam University Press", issn = "2352-1244", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "René Descartes, among others, tried to downplay the role of the human imagination by identifying man’s true inner nature with our rational thinking self, a view that according to many became central to the modern self-understanding. In the wake of the 20th-century critiques of this Cartesian view of man, imagination is finally making its comeback. What is often overlooked, however, is that for a long time imagination was deemed vitally important. This project takes a close look at philosophical theories of the imagination in a crucial, but neglected, period in which it was still considered by many, for better or worse, to belong to human nature no less than reason (1350–1600).", }