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Phantasia

23 mins | Apr 4, 2021
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Paul Giamatti on why imagination is the sixth sense. Art is not just great for therapeutic emotional management and catharsis, but also produces knowledge and generates new ways of understanding and manipulating the world. Here, the Emmy Award-winner actor and philosopher Stephen T. Asma work together to explore their shared view of the great power that imagination has in allowing us to empathise and humanise ourselves and other people.

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