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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... at Agregento . On certain occasions in such places there comes an appeal that enlivens imagi- nation and attests to the elemental . BOALSBURG JANUARY 2000 FORCE OF IMAGINATION PROLUSIONS Imagine being there . I. ECHOING xii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... come to light , it must be governed by this articulation , by the secret strength of things : The secret Strength of things Which governs thought , and to the infinite dome Of Heaven is as a law , inhabits thee ! ( 11. 139-41 ) It is of ...
... come to be shown must be capable not merely of directing vision to the expanse in which the thing comes to pass but also of gathering around it the various moments and elements that pertain to its self- showing , setting it , as it were ...
... comes more and more to call into question the alleged mental image in phantasy ( see Phantasie , Bildbewusstsein , Erinnerung : Zur Phänomenologie der Anschaulichen Vergegenwärtigungen , Husserliana 23 , ed . Eduard Marbach Sartre ...
... come to light , whether , from the play of the imagined , something can be disclosed that would other- wise have escaped ... comes from us , from our spontaneity . " 12 Although Sartre grants that the imagined object can appear “ with a ...
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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 |