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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... life and death . ( 11. 127-29 ) Its power is held in reserve , not as if it ... things inhabits thee ! ( ll . 139 , 141 ) Its power is a strength reserved , held in secret , withheld from view , in its very display ... display of their counte ...
... things are allotted their time . They pass finally back into darkness , not ... showing themselves to one capable of vision . Yet , precisely by virtue of ... self - showing . The one to whom some- thing can come to be shown must be ...
... Self - showing requires that one be there where the requisite moments and elements are to be gathered , that one ... things , then force of imagina- tion can bring about the spacing of this expanse : it is there that things show ...
... things themselves show themselves ; and even if there should prove to be a self - withholding intrinsically opera- tive in manifestation , it could be marked as such only by adherence to the self - showing of things . But , above all ...
... self - entertainment , to conjuring up pure possibilities . As if ... something other can come to light , whether , from the play of the imagined , something ... showing that the imagined object is mere surface , that it lacks 11. Ibid ...
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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 |