1st Edition

The Wake of Imagination

By Richard Kearney Copyright 1988
480 Pages
by Routledge

480 Pages
by Routledge

480 Pages
by Routledge

With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as: Hebraic, Greek, medieval, Romantic, existential and post-modern.

Acknowledgements, Introduction: Imagination Now, PART I: PREMODERN NARRATIVES, Chapter One: The Hebraic Imagination, Chapter Two: The Hellenic Imagination, Chapter Three: The Medieval Imagination, PART II: MODERN NARRATIVES, Chapter Four: The Transcendental Imagination, Chapter Five: The Existentialist Imagination I—Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Chapter Six: The Existentialist Imagination II—Sartre, PART III: POSTMODERN NARRATIVES, Chapter Seven: The Parodic Imagination, Chapter Eight: Postmodern Culture: Apocalypse Now?, Conclusion: After Imagination?, Notes, Index

Biography

Richard Kearney