Creative Imagination – the Source of Theorizing in Political Science Cover Image

Wyobraźnia twórcza – o źródłach teoretyzowania w nauce o polityce
Creative Imagination – the Source of Theorizing in Political Science

Author(s): Filip Pierzchalski
Subject(s): Political Theory
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: creative imagination; illumination; creative theorizing; directness/indirectness of scientific cognition; divergent thinking

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze the phenomenon of creative imagination as source the creation theory and scientific theorizing in political science. In this understanding, the author made three-views of key topics methodological reflection, which are synonymous the mechanism of the scientific theorizing in political science. The three-views proceed as follows: human imagination → indirectness of scientific cognition → creative theorizing.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 25-43
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish