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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... become all the more manifest , displayed precisely there in the towering peak . The power is not just that supposed once to have lifted earth itself into the heaven , once long ago , in a past so remote that , if one asks about it ...
... become manifest . Being there in the interval between coming and passing , being there as such , things are of fered to ... becomes manifest shines forth from within its sur- roundings and , in offering itself to vision , holds itself in ...
... becomes inconceivable that imagination could sustain any essential rela- tion to the future , and foresight is accordingly reduced to little more than extrapolation from the present . Yet from the present and its extrapolation one can ...
... become a part of it , — Nor with aught else can our souls interknit So wingedly : when we combine therewith , Life's self is nourish'd by its proper pith , And we are nurtured like a pelican brood . ( 11. 797-814 ) Little wonder , then ...
... become , as it were , more Presocratic . The turn would reinstall the human in wild nature and in its bearing on the earth and beneath the sky , returning human nature to nature . It would grant provocations that exceed the question of ...
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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 |