Logic of imagination : the expanse of the elemental / John Sallis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sallis, John, 1938-2025.

Series:

Studies in Continental thought

Studies in continental thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagination (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

286 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2012]

Summary:

The Shakespearean image of a tempest and its aftermath forms the beginning as Well as a major guiding thread of Logic of Imagination. Moving beyond the horizons of his earlier work, Force of Imagination, John Sallis sets out to unsettle the traditional. conception of logic, to mark its limits, and, beyond these limits, to launch another, exorbitant logic-a logic of imagination Drawing on a vast range of sources, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud, as well as developments in modern logic and modern mathematics Sallis shows how a logic of imagination can disclose the most elemental dimensions of nature and of human existence and how through dialogue with contemporary astrophysics, it can reopen the project of a philosophical cosmology. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Logic of Contradiction

A Ones 26

B A Principle Most Firm, Steadfast, Sure 30

C Another Logic 46

D Logic as Metaphysics of Contradiction 51

E Contradiction at the Limit 58

2 Formal Logic and Beyond

A Divergences 62

B Pure Logic 66

C Transcendental Logic 78

D Dismantlings 84

3 Exorbitant Logics

A Infraction 95

B The Field of Things 101

C Kettle Logic 106

4 The Look of Things

A Showings 126

B Doubling Looks 131

C The Look of Sense 135

5 Schematism

A The Elementals and Their Texture 142

B Preeminent Spacings 154

C Schemata of Imagination 160

D Before the Elemental 186

6 Proper Elementals

A The Space of Propriety 190

B Seclusion 216

C Natal Mortality 230

7 Elemental Cosmology

A The Expanse Beyond 244

B Unabsolved Space 257

C Stretch of Imagination 271.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253005892

0253005892

9780253005908

0253005906

OCLC:

752072612