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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... is the secret strength that belongs to all things , their power to keep themselves in reserve , unseen , in their very display of their counte- nance . It is this secret strength that allows them 4 FORCE OF IMAGINATION.
... interior locus . Rather , it is only that such a one , presented with the image , can gather around that image all that belongs to the thing's self - showing . As when , letting one's gaze come to rest on 6 FORCE OF IMAGINATION.
... belongs to imagination a comportment — indeed a privileged com- portment - to truth as such . To say what is decisive in this comportment to truth , he requires less than a single sentence : " What the imagination seizes as Beauty must ...
... belong to every such establishing of truth , two moments that , within the establishing of truth , belong to- gether in their opposition . In imagination's seizing of beauty , truth is estab- lished by being both originarily brought ...
... belongs integrally to this life : " the simple imaginative Mind may have its rewards in the repe- ti [ ti ] on of its own silent Working coming continually on the spirit with a fine suddenness " ( emphasis added ) . For repetition , the ...
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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 |