Thinking and Imagination: Between Science and Art (Thinking European Worlds)

Thinking and Imagination argues that mechanical objectivity is insufficient to deal with the complex of thinking and imagination. A picture is not simply a documentation of something being seen. The image is seen as condensation of a process, summing up representations, expectations and dispositions. Regarded in this way, pictures form a gateway to our understanding of a world only partially analyzed. It is not just documentation we have to deal with in image sciences, but imagination. Only in that way will we gain new perspectives to handle experiences and their representations.