Poetics of Imagining
Modern to Postmodern
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 2019
256 pages
978-1-4744-6971-5 (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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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The phenomenological imagination (Husserl)
- 2 The ontological imagination (Heidegger)
- 3 The existential imagination (Satre)
- 4 The poetical imagination (Bachelard)
- 5 The dialectical imagination (Merleau-Ponty)
- 6 The hermeneutical imagination (Ricoeur)
- 7 The post-modern imagination
- (i) A labyrinth of mirrors (Lacan, Althusser, Foucault)
- (ii) Towards a post-modern hermeneutic of imagination (Vattimo, Kristeva, Lyotard)
- 8 Vive l'imagination!
- Epilogue: Narrative imagination - the ethical challenge
- Index
