In this brilliant and innovative book, Alfredo Ferrarin presents a novel conception of imagination. Through a series of masterful philosophical readings that venture into poetry, film, drama, geometry, and physics, he shows that imagination needs to be both reimagined and rethought, not only as a faculty concerned with images, but also as practical imagination, connected to desire and action, and, in this capacity, intrinsically related to thinking.

Dmitri Nikulin, Agnes Heller Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, USA

Ferrarin's rich and rewarding book shows us how imagination permeates our world. It is filled with impressive scholarly erudition, precise phenomenological analyses, and often surprising insights. Written in an engaging prose the book is a paradigm of what it means to philosophize with imagination.

Eli Friedlander, Tel Aviv University, Israel

This book is an ambitious and engaging work that deals with fundamental questions surrounding the nature of images and the imagination. The treatments of the relation between images and thought as well as the practical imagination are especially valuable for enriching the complexity of how images and the imagination play a varied role across the spectrum of human experience from perception to action to thinking. Ferrarin's vision will surely speak to a broad range of readers, and making an indispensable reference for any discussion of images and the imagination, given the originality of its argument and approach.

Nicolas de Warren, Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies, Penn State University, USA