Philosophical Conversations (January 2020)
“No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself.”
(Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination, Indiana University Press, 1964, p.101)
For your consideration:
Is the study of literature a particularly good way to cultivate our imagination? Better than other areas, such as social studies?
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