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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... discourse . A more definitive draft of the initial chapters was composed during stays in Brussels and in Bochum , again with generous support from the Alexander von Humboldt - Stiftung . The final draft was written in Boalsburg in the ...
The Sense of the Elemental John Sallis. into this discourse was first sketched on singular occasions in places distinc- tively evocative : a deep Alpine valley , certain islands in the Aegean , the scene of a snowstorm in Pennsylvania ...
... discourse is put in play and opened to the enormous legacy philosophy has be- queathed concerning the extent of imagination and attesting to its force . Even without yet venturing such a discourse , it is possible to circumscribe three ...
... discourses . Even less has it been con- sidered to what extent this distinction and everything that hinges on it serve in the Platonic texts to mark something problematic , even enigmatic or aporetic , rather than constituting an ...
... discourse on nature , that entire discourse is framed by the political discourses it would ultimately serve.40 The turn to wild nature and the elemental would remove the frame . It would contest the hegemony of ( at least a certain ) ...
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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 |