
Poetics of Imagining
Modern to Postmodern
Richard Kearney(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 1. July 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-7486-1053-2 (ISBN)
Description
Richard Kearney has produced a new and revised paperback edition of his classic book Poetics of Imagining. This volume offers an 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 of phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard), hermeuneutics (Heidegger, Ricoeur) and post-modernism (Vattimo, 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.
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Highly informative and enlightening. Makes difficult thought available to readers with no background in philosophy. Dazzling in its range of reference and philosophic subtlety. -- Terry Eagleton Highly informative and enlightening. Makes difficult thought available to readers with no background in philosophy. Dazzling in its range of reference and philosophic subtlety.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
448 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-1053-2 (9780748610532)
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