“This book makes an important contribution to the contemporary remapping of the faculties. Each chapter reads like a meditative journey in which the reader accompanies a well-trained and generous mind as it grapples with the puzzle of human experience. It will appeal to students and scholars of anthropology, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, and especially to those who are looking for innovation in methodology in these disciplines.”<Wlad Godzich, University of California, Santa Cruz

Wlad Godzich, University of California, Santa Cruz

"There is a pleasure alone in reading each of Crapanzano’s chapters, and his erudite, open-ended, and often purposefully contradictory musings on these topics can well serve as a tonic to anyone interested in ways in which these topics could be fruitfully reframed; those interested in phenomenological, psychoanalytic, hermeneutic, and existential approaches to anthropology will also find Crapanzano’s virtuoso readings and critiques rewarding."

Jon Bialecki | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

"Imaginative Horizons models the kind of interdisciplinary study ’we’ need (whoever we are). . . . His reader will learn much from the turbulence Vincent Crapanzano stirs up."

Lee Haring | Journal of American Folklore