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The concept of the imaginary is pervasive within contemporary
thought, yet can be a baffling and often controversial term. In
Imagination and the Imaginary, Kathleen Lennon explores the links
between imagination - regarded as the faculty of creating images or
forms - and the imaginary, which links such imagery with affect or
emotion and captures the significance which the world carries for
us. Beginning with an examination of contrasting theories of
imagination proposed by Hume and Kant, Lennon argues that the
imaginary is not something in opposition to the real, but the very
faculty through which the world is made real to us. She then turns
to the vexed relationship between perception and imagination and,
drawing on Kant, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre, explores some
fundamental questions, such as whether there is a distinction
between the perceived and the imagined; the relationship between
imagination and creativity; and the role of the body in perception
and imagination. Invoking also Spinoza and Coleridge, Lennon argues
that, far from being a realm of illusion, the imaginary world is
our most direct mode of perception. She then explores the role the
imaginary plays in the formation of the self and the social world.
A unique feature of the volume is that it compares and contrasts a
philosophical tradition of thinking about the imagination - running
from Kant and Hume to Strawson and John McDowell - with the work of
phenomenological, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and feminist
thinkers such as Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Lacan, Castoriadis,
Irigaray, Gatens and Lloyd. This makes Imagination and the
Imaginary essential reading for students and scholars working in
phenomenology, philosophy of perception, social theory, cultural
studies and aesthetics. Cover Image: Bronze Bowl with Lace, Ursula
Von Rydingsvard, 2014. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Lelong and
Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Photo Jonty Wilde.
The concept of the imaginary is pervasive within contemporary
thought, yet can be a baffling and often controversial term. In
Imagination and the Imaginary, Kathleen Lennon explores the links
between imagination - regarded as the faculty of creating images or
forms - and the imaginary, which links such imagery with affect or
emotion and captures the significance which the world carries for
us. Beginning with an examination of contrasting theories of
imagination proposed by Hume and Kant, Lennon argues that the
imaginary is not something in opposition to the real, but the very
faculty through which the world is made real to us. She then turns
to the vexed relationship between perception and imagination and,
drawing on Kant, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre, explores some
fundamental questions, such as whether there is a distinction
between the perceived and the imagined; the relationship between
imagination and creativity; and the role of the body in perception
and imagination. Invoking also Spinoza and Coleridge, Lennon argues
that, far from being a realm of illusion, the imaginary world is
our most direct mode of perception. She then explores the role the
imaginary plays in the formation of the self and the social world.
A unique feature of the volume is that it compares and contrasts a
philosophical tradition of thinking about the imagination - running
from Kant and Hume to Strawson and John McDowell - with the work of
phenomenological, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and feminist
thinkers such as Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Lacan, Castoriadis,
Irigaray, Gatens and Lloyd. This makes Imagination and the
Imaginary essential reading for students and scholars working in
phenomenology, philosophy of perception, social theory, cultural
studies and aesthetics. Cover Image: Bronze Bowl with Lace, Ursula
Von Rydingsvard, 2014. Courtesy the artist, Galerie Lelong and
Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Photo Jonty Wilde.
The question of difference has always been a controversial issue
for feminists. This is certainly true in the case of
epistemological questions. What difference does the adoption of a
feminist perspective make in relation to traditional knowledge? How
are feminist perspectives themselves affected by the difference
between women? Both questions require a re-evaluation of issues of
objectivity and the justification of knowledge claims in a way that
focuses on the subjects who constitute the knowledge producers.
Using approaches and methods from both analytic and continental
thinking, this collection addresses traditional epistemology and
issues raised by postmodern critiques. "Knowing the Difference"
features contributions from an international list of contributors
including Rosi Braidotti, Gemma Corradi Fiumara, Sabina Lovibond,
Liz Stanley and Anna Yeatman, as well as a range of new and
innovative thinkers. Margaret Whitford has also published
"Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Sartre's Philosophy" (French Forum,
1982); "Feminist Perspectives in Philosophy", co-edited with
Morwenna Griffiths (Macmillan 1988, and Indiana University Press,
1988); and "Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Femin
A welcome introduction to one of the most intellectually demanding
areas of the undergraduate philosophy curriculum. The authors
provide a clear framework within which students can fit
contemporary developments in the Anglo-American tradition which
provide the core themes of philosophy of mind and which connect to
their other work in epistemology and philosophy of language.
Here, for the first time, contemporary Continental thought comes
into conversation with analytic philosophy on all the principal
topics of philosophy of mind. Rejecting the dominant Anglo-American
paradigm, which reduces mental phenomena to their roles in a
scientific psychology, the authors present a non-mysterious,
naturalistic alternative. Characterising mental life is, they seek
to show, capturing the world from the point of view of the subject.
But the subject is essentially embodied, so that mental phenomena
are modes of our fleshly existence in the world. The book aims to
bring together these three themes - the world,the flesh and the
subject - to resolve many of the puzzles that beset contemporary
philosophy of mind. It thereby provides a coherent new approach
which draws upon phenomenology, hermeneutics, psycho-analysis and
poststructuralism, and relates recent feminist work on the body to
traditional concerns with the mind. The topics discussed include
the problem of consciousness, perception and sensation,
imagination, desire, emotion, reason and agency, and the self and
others.Features * Brings continental thought to bear on
contemporary philosophy of mind * Offers a new approach to problems
of mind * Brings recent work on the body together with traditional
concerns with the mind * Treats philosophy of mind in a topic
oriented way
Kathleen Lennon provides a new approach to the philosophy of
action, showing how "reasons" fit into the casual framework of the
world, while defending their autonomy. She disputes the
rapidly-congealing orthodoxy which maintains that explanations
according to intentional states cannot be casual explanations.
Kathleen Lennon provides a new approach to the philosophy of
action, showing how "reasons" fit into the casual framework of the
world, while defending their autonomy. She disputes the
rapidly-congealing orthodoxy which maintains that explanations
according to intentional states cannot be casual explanations.
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