The World of the Imagination: Sum and Substance is the first volume in Eva Brann trilogy dealing with three central human capacities: our ability to make the absent present, our ability to deny existence, reality, or being, our ability to live with what is no longer, or not yet. In this volume Eva Brann sets out no less a task than to assess the meaning of imagination in its multifarious expressions throughout western history. The result is one of those rare achievements that will make The World of the Imagination a standard reference.