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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... mountains around Soglio and Sils Maria , the canyons and desert of Utah , the sites of the temples at Sounion and at Agregento . On certain occasions in such places there comes an appeal that enlivens imagi- nation and attests to the ...
... mountain stream bursts and raves over the rocks . Imagine being there in the valley over whose pines , crags , and caverns the fast cloud - shadows and sunbeams sail . Imagine hearing the chainless winds as they come to drink the odors ...
... mountains an- nounce , their teaching . The song was written in the valley of Chamonix in 1816. Shelley gave it the name of the mountain of which it sings : Mont Blanc . ' Yet the poet's design is not just to sing of the mountain but to ...
... mountain wilderness . For , indeed , The wilderness has a mysterious tongue [ . ] ( 1.76 ) The mountain has its voice , though not all have ears with which to hear it : Thou hast a voice , great Mountain , to repeal Large codes of fraud ...
... mountain : The secret Strength of things inhabits thee ! ( ll . 139 , 141 ) Its power is a strength reserved , held in secret , withheld from view , in its very display of its countenance . Yet such power , more manifest than ever in ...
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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 |