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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... TURNING - 21 15 1. ON ( NOT SIMPLY ) BEGINNING A. SENSE 26 B. IDIOM 32 2. REMEMBRANCE A. IMAGINATION AT THE LIMIT B. THE NAMES OF IMAGINATION C. EXORBITANT TRAITS 69 3. DUPLICITY OF THE IMAGE 43 46 A. SENSE IMAGE B. INDIFFERENCE 77 90 4 ...
... turn , set within an expanse delimited in its outer reach by the elements and finally by what is most elemental , earth and sky . As when , toward evening , one glances across the valley and discerns the trees of the grove standing out ...
... turning upon itself , that sets imagination turning back upon itself in a way that is more rigorously mediated than that which merely appeals to images . And yet , it is precisely this turn that Husserl seems never really to have ...
... turns repeatedly yet indecisively into a disguise of the other . The intrinsic instability of this guise has nowhere been so provocatively and compactly formulated as in a short piece by Beckett called " Imagination Dead Imagine ...
... turn at this point to the celebrated poem that the letter appears to prefig- ure , focusing then on the final lines of Ode on a Grecian Urn : When old age shall this generation waste , Thou shalt remain , in midst of other woe Than ours ...
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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 |