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 |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 44
... connections that reflect unmistakably the confining tendency , connections that a freer analysis will break for the ... connection and nonconnection is the disclosive force of imagination ; it is a question of whether the imagined is no ...
... connections , that between imagina- tion and perception . For Sartre this connection is one of complete mutual exclusion . Imagination and perception he takes to constitute " the two main irreducible attitudes of consciousness , " and ...
... connection that Husserl puts into effect from the Logical Investigations on : though imag- ination may supplement perception in various ways , and though , in a cer- tain global or structural sense , it arises through modification of ...
... connection between imagination and beauty needs to be kept in mind : it is not as though , along with various other comportments , imagina- tion sometimes comports itself to beauty . Rather imagination is as such en- 26. Samuel Beckett ...
... connection addressed is that of imagination's seizing of beauty , on the one hand , to truth , on the other — that ... connections in which the establishing of truth can occur : the truth may have existed before the establishing , in ...
Indhold
1 | |
26 | |
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 |