290 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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For philosophers such as Kant, the imagination is the starting point for all thought. For others, such as Wittgenstein, what is important is only how the word 'imagination' is used. In spite of the attention the imagination has received from major philosophers, remarkably little has been written about the radically different interpretations they have made of it. The HypoCritical Imagination:... Read more
Chapter 1 Prologue; Part 1 Back Through Kant; Chapter 2 Imagination as Medial Diathesis; Chapter 3 Constructive Imagination as Connecting Middle; Chapter 4 Antinomy as Dialectical Imagination in Hegel's Critique of Kant; Chapter 5 Dialectical Imagination as Deconstruction; Chapter 6 Imadgination as the meaning of Being; Part 2 From Levinas; Chapter 7 Levinas's Critical and Hypocritical Diction; Chapter 8 Arendt's Critique of Political Judgement; Part 3 To the Things Themselves; Chapter 9 Respect as Effective Affectivity; Chapter 10 Aesthethics; Chapter 11 Alethaesthethics; Chapter 12 Epilogue;
Biography
John Llewellyn is formerly Reader in Philosophy at Edinburgh University. hew is the author of the acclaimed Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics, also published by Routledge.
'This book collects a number of thought provoking studies on imagination and the crucial significances claimed for it since Kant.' - Tidschrift voor Filosofie
