Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology

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MIT Course Number

24.262

As Taught In

Spring 2004

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

This course is a seminar on creativity in art, science, and technology. We discuss how these pursuits are jointly dependent on affective as well as cognitive elements in human nature. We study feeling and imagination in relation to principles of idealization, consummation, and the aesthetic values that give meaning to science and technology as well as literature and the other arts. Readings in philosophy, psychology, and literature are part of the course.

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Irving Singer. 24.262 Feeling and Imagination in Art, Science, and Technology. Spring 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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