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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... intelligible over against the sensible . If the beauty and truth brought forth by imagination are essential , then they can only be so in a sense that diverges from the classical sense , in a sense of essence that is drawn back to sense ...
... intelligible , Keats ironically proposes ( as “ another favorite Speculation " ) that enjoyment in the hereafter will consist in repetition of earthly joys- " that we shall enjoy ourselves here after by having what we called happiness ...
... intelligible ( vontóv ) over sensible ( atoonτóv ) . One readily takes this distinction and this ordering of its terms to have been posited in the Platonic dialogues , 34. Keats , Complete Poems , 65 . 35. Nietzsche , Also Sprach ...
... intelligible with its character as ground , άpxý , truth , now be subordinated to the sensible with its character as appearance and as an image remote from truth . Today it is hardly any longer necessary to say that such an inversion ...
... intelligible , and indeed through a reinscription that would not be - and would not take itself to be - con- trolled by preconstituted significations that the words would only express . The word sense has peculiar resources pertinent 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 |