Poetics of imagining : modern to post-modern / Richard Kearney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kearney, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagination (Philosophy)--History--20th century.

Imagination (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2009.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The phenomenological imagination (Husserl)

2. The ontological imagination (Heidegger)

3. The existential imagination (Sartre)

4. The poetical imagination (Bachelard)

5. The dialectical imagination (Merleau-Ponty)

6. The hermeneutical imagination (Ricoeur)

7. The post-modern imagination

8. Vive l'imagination!

Epilogue: Narrative imagination - the ethical challenge

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-6971-X