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Published: 23rd September 1999
ISBN: 9780415213622
Number Of Pages: 288
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: Between Kant and Levinas is an outstanding contribution to this vaccuum. Focusing on Kant and Levinas, John Llewelyn takes us on a dazzling tour of the philosophical imagination. He shows us that despite the different treatments they accord to the imagination, there is much to be gained from comparing these two key thinkers. From Kant, Llewelyn shows how the imagination is the common root of all understanding. He contrasts this with the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, for whom the imagination plays an ambivalent role both as necessary for and a threat to recognition of the other.
John Llewelyn also introduces the importance of the work of Heidegger Schelling, Hegel, Arendt and Derrida on the imagination and what this work can tell us about the relationship between the imagination and ethics, aesthetics and literature.
The HypoCritical Imagination: Between Kant and Levinas is a brilliant reading of a neglected but important philosophical theme and is essential reading for those in contemporary philosophy, art theory and literature.
"An engaging and scholarly book... John Llewelyn's latest book is a sweeping work of original philosophy that grapples with a wide array of thought from German Idealism to twentieth-century phenomenology on the subject of the imagination." -Natasha S. Guinan, McGill University
| Acknowledgements | |
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| Back through Kant | p. 31 |
| Imagination as medial diathesis: Heidegger's reading of Kant | p. 33 |
| Constructive imagination as connecting middle: Schelling's reading of Kant | p. 50 |
| Antinomy as dialectical imagination in Hegel's critique of Kant | p. 69 |
| Dialectical imagination as deconstruction: Derrida's reading of Hegel | p. 88 |
| Imagination as the meaning of being: Sallis on Heidegger and Kant | p. 105 |
| From Levinas | p. 119 |
| Levinas's critical and hypoCritical diction | p. 121 |
| Arendt's critique of political judgement | p. 139 |
| To the things themselves | p. 151 |
| Respect as effective affectivity: Michel Henry on Kant | p. 153 |
| Aesthethics | p. 170 |
| Alethaesthethics: ethics as aesthetics of truth | p. 182 |
| Epilogue | p. 206 |
| Notes | p. 235 |
| Selective bibliography | p. 258 |
| Index | p. 269 |
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ISBN: 9780415213622
ISBN-10: 0415213622
Series: Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 288
Published: 23rd September 1999
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 16.51
x 1.27
Weight (kg): 0.48
Edition Number: 1
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