Will, Imagination, and Reason sets forth a new understanding of
reality and knowledge with far-reaching implications for the study
of man and society. Employing a systematic approach, Claes Ryn goes
to the philosophical depths to rethink and reconstitute the
epistemology of the humanities and social sciences. He shows that
will and imagination, together, constitute our basic outlook on
life and that reason derives its material and general orientation
from the interaction between them.
The imaginative master-minds--novelists, poets, composers,
painters, and others--powerfully affect the sensibility and
direction of society. Sometimes a distorting, self-serving
willfulness at the base of their visions draws civilization,
including reason, into dangerous illusion. More penetrating and
balanced vision and rationality spring from a different quality of
will. Ryn explains the kind of interplay between will, imagination,
and reason that is conducive to a deepened sense of reality and to
intellectual understanding. He argues that human life and
self-knowledge are inescapably historical. In developing his
dialectical view of intellect, he draws from Irving Babbitt,
Benedetto Croce, and other philosophers to refute positivistic,
formalistic, and ahistorical theories of knowledge and to develop
his alternative.
Advancing a systematic epistemological argument, Ryn throws
much new light on the nature of reason but also on central issues
of ethics and aesthetics. This trenchant and original work is
indispensable to philosophers, social, political and cultural
theorists, literary scholars, and historians.
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