“…Conversely, imagination is a means by which people might be carried away from their prejudices or "normal" ways of thinking in order to act differently. 46 Here I am using imagination much less in an Arendtian or even Kantian sense of developing an "enlarged mentality" than I am in Farrell's sense of engaging expressions of "conflicting magnitudes." Henri Bergson imagines the significance of humor in relation to a conflict within individual people as well as…”
“…Conversely, imagination is a means by which people might be carried away from their prejudices or "normal" ways of thinking in order to act differently. 46 Here I am using imagination much less in an Arendtian or even Kantian sense of developing an "enlarged mentality" than I am in Farrell's sense of engaging expressions of "conflicting magnitudes." Henri Bergson imagines the significance of humor in relation to a conflict within individual people as well as…”
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