This is a book about imaginative work and its relationship with the construction of knowledge. So far so good. It is nowadays fully acknowledged by epistemologists that imagination is not something opposed to rationality; it is not mere fantasy opposed to intellect. In philosophy and cognitive sciences, imagination is generally “delimiting not much more than the mental ability to interact cognitively with things that are not now present via the senses” (Stuart 2017, p. 11). For centuries, scholars and poets have wondered where this capability could come from, whether it is inspired by...