Bøker av R. Grant

Throughout its ten related essays, Imagining the Real contrasts our abstract imaginings about the human world with the imaginative insights provided by art and experience. Myers and Beckett as truly critical, because truly imaginative, exponents of ideas.

These essays cover topics as radically diverse as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Vaclav Havel, The Magic Flute and Viz magazine. The author, a leading Oakeshott scholar, contributes frequently to the TLS . It includes an otherwise almost unobtainable exchange with Sir Isaiah Berlin.