What is Imagination? What is the relationship between aesthetics
and ethics in a contemporary civilization dominated by the image?
How can we reconcile the right to imagine with the right to
justice? Are the claims of artistic creativity and moral
responsibility compatible? With an extended foreword and an
afterword chapter, and fascinating new material on the narrative
imagination, Poetics of Imagining: Modern to Post-modern provides a
critically developed and accessible account of the major theories
of imagination in modern European thought. It analyses and assesses
the decisive contributions made to our understanding of the
imaginary life by phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty,
Bachelard), hermeneutics (Heidegger, Ricoeur), and post-modernism
(Vattima, Kristeva, Lyotard). Richard Kearney achieves this with a
coherent and committed approach, which displays his own passionate
concern for the claims of imagination in our post-modern world of
fragmentation and fracture. This is essential reading for those
interested in current leading debates on the role of imagining in
continental philosophy, ethics, psychoanalysis, art theory and
literary criticism.
General
Imprint: |
Fordham University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy |
Release date: |
August 1998 |
First published: |
August 1998 |
Authors: |
Richard Kearney
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Dimensions: |
215 x 139 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
260 |
Edition: |
2 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8232-1872-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8232-1872-4 |
Barcode: |
9780823218721 |
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