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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... words back to the mountain : The secret Strength of things inhabits thee ! ( ll . 139 , 141 ) Its power is a strength reserved , held in secret , withheld from view , in its very display of its countenance . Yet such power , more ...
... word can signify nothing but this mode of relation , and one would need to say , with Sartre , that " an image is nothing else than a relationship . ” But there would be less likelihood of reverting to the erroneous conception if one ...
... word did not begin to slide away into an abyss of questions from the moment a more expansive and differentiating discourse is put in play and opened to the enormous legacy philosophy has be- queathed concerning the extent of imagination ...
... word , imagination seizes . This seizing can take two forms : imagination may apprehend the beauty of things that are , or it may envisage the beauty of those that are to be but are not yet . In Keats ' saying of the truth of ...
... word truth that is capitalized . The repetition ironically projected into the afterlife belongs integrally to this life : " the simple imaginative Mind may have its rewards in the repe- ti [ ti ] on of its own silent Working coming ...
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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 |