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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... decisively , exceeding sense . Let each sense share in what is wondrous and monstrous there . Yoking each to what would be sensed , double this double across the entire range of human sensibility . And beyond . Imagine , then , being ...
... decisive in this regard is the expulsion of the image from consciousness . Such an expulsion is required , most unam- biguously , in the case of perception : from the Logical Investigations on , Hus- serl never ceased to stress that in ...
... decisive is the way Husserl comes in Ideas I to focus on imagination , not just as a theme of phenomenology , but as empowering 14. Casey , Imagining , 92. In this regard Casey cites Merleau - Ponty : “ The imaginary has no depth ; it ...
... decisive in this comportment to truth , he requires less than a single sentence : " What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not— . ” Here the intrinsic connection between imagination and beauty ...
... decisive in the saying that Keats undertakes in the letter . Indeed one would have missed the most forceful indication of some- thing so singular in Keats ' saying of the truth of imagination that it will undermine every effort to ...
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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 |