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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... traces in the present discourse . A more definitive draft of the initial chapters was composed during stays in Brussels and in Bochum , again with generous support from the Alexander von Humboldt - Stiftung . The final draft was written ...
... trace of it borne by the countenance displayed there above : Mont Blanc yet gleams on high : —the power is there , The still and solemn power of many sights , And many sounds , and much of life and death . ( 11. 127-29 ) Its power is ...
... trace of a scent so slight as to be noticed only by such a creature . Humans living distractedly in the city they have built , secure up to the moment when even the earth begins to tremble or the approaching storm threatens with winds ...
... traces — not even the kind of traces - in which an enticing glimpse of that doubling would be offered . And though , in the case of imagination , the doubling back upon itself may be more apparent , its initial appearance serves for the ...
... trace of any such force of imagina- tion . Imagined objects he compares to mere silhouettes ; void of any unseen depth , they are incapable of offering anything that could surprise the imag- iner . There is nothing compelling about the ...
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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 |