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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... possibility of showing themselves to one capable of vision . Yet , precisely by virtue of being there where things come to pass , a thing never shows itself alone . Neither does anything ever show itself fully , exhaustively - such is ...
... possibility of action . If one is engaged with the image and takes up toward the elemental a bearing that draws the elements around the expanse of things , then force of imagina- tion can bring about the spacing of this expanse : it is ...
... possibility , to the entertaining of pure possi- bilities that are posited and contemplated for their own sake . It is this route that leads , then , to the reductive conception finally proposed : “ In this re- spect , imagining may be ...
... possibilities . As if possibilities and the bringing forth of the possible had no bearing on truth . As if in the formula - entertaining oneself with what is purely possible — every word did not begin to slide away into an abyss of ...
... possibility of spontaneous imagining , one characteristic of which he takes to be effortlessness.22 But all these analyses merely circle around and reaffirm the connection that Husserl puts into effect from the Logical Investigations on ...
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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 |