Force of Imagination: The Sense of the ElementalIndiana University Press, 22. sep. 2000 - 256 sider Force of Imagination A bold and original investigation into how imagination shapes thought and feeling. "This is a bold new direction for the author, one that he takes in an arresting and convincing manner. . . . a powerful, original approach to what others call 'ecology' but what Sallis shows to be a question of the status of the earth in philosophical thinking at this historical moment." —Edward S. Casey In this major original work, John Sallis probes the very nature of imagination and reveals how the force of imagination extends into all spheres of human life. While drawing critically on the entire history of philosophy, Sallis's work takes up a vantage point determined by the contemporary deconstruction of the classical opposition between sensible and intelligible. Thus, in reinterrogating the nature of imagination, Force of Imagination carries out a radical turn to the sensible and to the elemental in nature. Liberated from subjectivity, imagination is shown to play a decisive role both in drawing together the moments of our experience of sensible things and in opening experience to the encompassing light, atmosphere, earth, and sky. Set within this elemental expanse, the human sense of time, of self, and of the other proves to be inextricably linked to imagination and to nature. By showing how imagination is formative for the very opening upon things and elements, this work points to the revealing power of poetic imagination and casts a new light on the nature of art. John Sallis is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. His previous books include Being and Logos: Reading the Platonic Dialogues; Shades—Of Painting at the Limit; Stone; Chorology: On Beginning in Plato's Timaeus (all published by Indiana University Press), Crossings: Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy and Double Truth. Studies in Continental Thought—John Sallis, editor Contents |
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... Keats wrote to his friend Benjamin Bailey on 22 November 1817.27 In the letter Keats writes of “ the authenticity of the Imagination " and of " the truth of Imagination . " His intent is not simply to state a truth — or even the truth ...
... Keats ' word , imagination seizes . This seizing can take two forms : imagination may apprehend the beauty of things that are , or it may envisage the beauty of those that are to be but are not yet . In Keats ' saying of the truth of ...
... Keats ' idiom , on seizing it in such a way that it might be established as the very truth of truth . It is precisely to this end that , in the letter to Bailey , Keats proposes a comparison with Adam's dream : “ The Imagination may be ...
... Keats intimates this in the letter to Bailey when , having just referred to " those who delight in sensation , " he writes : " Adam's dream will do here and seems to be a conviction that Imagination and its empyreal reflection is the ...
... Keats goes on to exclaim : “ O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts . " In the starkest con- trast to denigration of the sensible for the sake of the intelligible , Keats ironically proposes ( as “ another favorite ...
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2 REMEMBRANCE | 43 |
3 DUPLICITY OF THE IMAGE | 77 |
4 SPACING THE IMAGE | 98 |
5 TRACTIVE IMAGINATION | 123 |
6 THE ELEMENTAL | 147 |
7 TEMPORALITIES | 184 |
8 PROPRIETIES | 197 |
9 POETIC IMAGINATION | 215 |
ENGLISH INDEX | 231 |