1st Edition

The Wake of Imagination

By Richard Kearney Copyright 1988
    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