Abstract :
The entrance of man in History is one of the central issues of the Humanities. This paper reflects on Angel Pino's contribution to avoid reductionist interpretations of this matter, highlighting his proposition that this passage is made possible by imagination, a process inseparable from emotion, which explains the uniqueness of human creation despite social determination. To demonstrate these ideas, Pino became an explorer of Vygotsky's work, profoundly studying three basic concepts: conversion, function and drama, which cover the totality and the dialectical movement of the passage from nature to society and are the key to understand imaginary production, as he advocated. To help in our analysis, we bring to the discussion the concepts of image, imagination and emotion in Espinosa, Vygotsky's favorite philosopher. We argue that these concepts allowed Pino to re-enchant the process of development of man, recovering what had been taken from him: aesthetics and freedom.
Keywords :
Human development; Drama; Imagination; Emotion; Conversion and function