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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... precisely there in the towering peak . The power is not just that supposed once to have lifted earth itself into the heaven , once long ago , in a past so remote that , if one asks about it , None can reply — all seems eternal now ...
... 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 the secret strength of things , that they hold them- selves back ...
... — a move toward the concept— 2. Gaston Bachelard , La Terre et les Rêveries du Repos ( Paris : Librairie José Corti , 1948 ) , 300 . that tacitly confirms precisely what the revalorization of the image 7 PROLUSIONS III. SPIRALING —
... precisely this requirement that makes phenomenology indispensable , even if phenomenology cannot itself remain untouched by the disruption re- leased by the deconstruction of the classical schema , even if in that wake phenomenology ...
... precisely as a result of the concreteness and precision of the analyses . In these analyses the impoverishment of imagination appears in what Casey calls the irrevocable frontal character of the imagined ; as imagined , the object is ...
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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 |