
Poetics of Modernity
Toward a Hermeneutic Imagination
Richard Kearney(Author)
Humanity Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. May 1995
Book
Hardback
269 pages
978-1-57392-610-2 (ISBN)
Description
Kearney addresses one of the key issues of modern European thought - how the crisis of values (ethics) relates to the crisis of imagination (poetics). Through a series of in-depth studies of thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Ricoeur, Derrida, and others, Kearney explores the ways in which Continental philosophy, in both its modern and post-modern guises, has endeavoured to respond to these twin crises. Some studies focus on the dilemma of individual imagination faced with the fragmentation of inherited concepts of truth, God, or the good. Others concentrate on conflicts internal to the social imagination of our times - eg: ideology versus utopia, myth versus critique, tradition versus reason, modernity versus post-modernity. Kearney also applies these philosophical disputes to a number of post-modern texts in literature and to painting and politics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Prometheus Books
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-57392-610-2 (9781573926102)
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