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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... object it remains outside consciousness merely reverses what it opposes without breaking at all with the alleged source of error : for this assertion is itself no less determined by a thinking in space and in terms of space . One ...
... object as imagined in phantasy . Whereas the perceived object constantly overflows one's con- sciousness of it , the imagined object is , according to Sartre , " never anything more than the consciousness one has of it . " He says even ...
... object nothing is disclosed , nothing is to be learned . Casey is no less insistent on the poverty of the imagined . His analysis is intent on showing that the imagined object is mere surface , that it lacks 11. Ibid . , 119 . 12 ...
... object always presents itself , there corresponds the parallel synthesis of manifold imaginations in which the same object appears imaginally [ zur bildlichen Darstellung kommt ] . ” 16 In the more detailed analyses in the manu- scripts ...
... object from the front , one can also imagine what its unseen sides look like by summoning up a series of imaginative presentations of those sides hidden from one's frontal view . In this case imagining would thus serve to fill out what ...
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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 |