Lectures on Imagination
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-82053-8 (ISBN)
The eminent philosopher Paul Ricoeur was devoted to the imagination. These previously unpublished lectures offer Ricoeur’s most significant and sustained reflections on creativity as he builds a new theory of imagination through close examination, moving from Aristotle, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant to Ryle, Price, Wittgenstein, Husserl, and Sartre. These thinkers, he contends, underestimate humanity’s creative capacity. While the Western tradition generally views imagination as derived from the reproductive example of the image, Ricoeur develops a theory about the mind’s power to produce new realities. Modeled most clearly in fiction, this productive imagination, Ricoeur argues, is available across conceptual domains. His theory provocatively suggests that we are not constrained by existing political, social, and scientific structures. Rather, our imaginations have the power to break through our conceptual horizons and remake the world.
Paul Ricoeur (1913–2005) was the John Nuveen Professor in the Divinity School, the Department of Philosophy, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was the author of many books, including Memory, History, Forgetting, Oneself as Another, and the three-volume Time and Narrative, all published by the University of Chicago Press. George H. Taylor is professor emeritus of law at the University of Pittsburgh. Robert D. Sweeney (1929–2016) was the Don Shula Chair in Philosophy at John Carroll University. Jean-Luc Amalric teaches at the CPGE Arts and Design in Nîmes and the Research Center for Arts and Language (CRAL), EHESS, Paris. Patrick F. Crosby (1948–2020) was an independent Ricoeur scholar
Editor’s Acknowledgments by George H. Taylor
Editor’s Introduction by George H. Taylor
1 Introductory Lecture
Part One: Classical Readings
2 Aristotle
3 Pascal and Spinoza
4 Hume
5 Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
6 Kant: Critique of Judgment
Part Two: Modern Readings
7 Ryle
8 Ryle (2) and Price
9 Wittgenstein
10 Husserl: Logical Investigations
11 Husserl: Ideas
12 Sartre (1)
13 Sartre (2)
14. Sartre (3)
Part Three: Imagination as Fiction
15 Fiction (1): Introduction
16 Fiction (2): Metaphor
17 Fiction (3): Painting
18 Fiction (4): Models
19 Fiction (5): Poetic Language
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.03.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 1 tables |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 739 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-82053-X / 022682053X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-82053-8 / 9780226820538 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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