Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-modern

Richard Kearney

Published by Fordham University Press 1998

Poetics of Imagining

Modern and Post-modern

Richard Kearney

In the series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296392

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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.

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Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 The phenomenological imagination (Husserl) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2 The ontological imagination (Heidegger) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
3 The existential imagination (Sartre) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
4 The poetical imagination (Bachelard) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
5 The dialectical imagination (Merleau-Ponty) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
6 The hermeneutical imagination (Ricoeur) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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