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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... bring forth what would — if it were an instance of sensing and not of imagining — be sensed , what would be sensed while also , decisively , exceeding sense . Let each sense share in what is wondrous and monstrous there . Yoking each to ...
... bring about the spacing of this expanse : it is there that things show themselves . III . SPIRALING - There is no saying in advance how manifestation is to be enticed to double back upon itself in such a way that the constitution of its ...
... bring imagination to bear on imagination : " we must use imagi- nation in order to give an adequate descriptive account of imagination . Husserl , too , insists on the distinction : in perception the object itself ap- pears , whereas in ...
... brings sleep to fall on Adam , to close his eyes : Mine eyes he closed , but open left the cell Of fancy my internal ... brings about the creation of Eve , that is , brings forth Eve herself , indeed originarily , creatively . Yet , on ...
... brings her forth in fancy and remembers her , recognizes the existing Eve , as being the same as the Eve produced in fancy . In his imagination Adam both creates Eve and yet repeats in fancy what comes about outside it ; he brings her ...
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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 |