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The amorous imagination : individuating the other-as-beloved / D. Andrew Yost.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yost, D. Andrew, author.
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marion, Jean-Luc, 1946---Influence.
- Marion, Jean-Luc.
- Love--Philosophy.
- Love.
- Other (Philosophy).
- Phenomenology.
- Love in literature.
- Other (Philosophy) in literature.
- Other minds (Theory of knowledge).
- Other minds (Theory of knowledge) in literature.
- phenomenology.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 199 pages).
- Other Title:
- Individuating the Other-As-Beloved.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- In The Amorous Imagination, D. Andrew Yost builds upon Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of love to argue that through the interpretive activities of the imagination the Beloved appears to the lover as this Other, not the Other. Weaving together insights from Romantic thought and contemporary French philosophy, Yost describes the distinctive role the imagination plays in individuating another person so that they appear radically unique, special, and unsubstitutable. This radical uniqueness--or haecceitas--emerges out of the lovers' engagement in an "endless hermeneutic," an ongoing process of creative and responsive meaning-making that grounds the lovers' lives in each other and opens them up to new possibilities. All of this, Yost argues, is made possible by the amorous imagination. Drawing from the deep well of love poetry, mythology, philosophy, and literature The Amorous Imagination comes to the provocative conclusion that without the productive power of the imagination love itself could not emerge.
- Building on Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of love this book takes up the "question of the Other" and argues that through the interpretive activities of the amorous imagination lovers come to experience one another as the Beloved.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Love, the Imagination, and the Other
- The Philosophy of Love
- The Lovers Emerge
- From the Other to this Other
- The Amorous Event and the Endless Hermeneutic
- Toward a Phenomenology of the Amorous Imagination
- The Dark Side of Love
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438484754
- 1438484755
- OCLC:
- 1262371779
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