Imagination and Postmodernity

This book, focusing on the central role of the imagination in contemporary philosophy, addresses challenges and problems that emerge today in conflicting positions, including a concentration on the role of the imagination in the work of Paul Ricoeur in contrast and in opposition to its role in such postmodern thinkers as Derrida and Lyotard.

List of contents

Preface
Chapter 1: The Imagination: Its Challenge to Philosophy Today
Chapter 2: The Transcendental Productive Imagination
Chapter 3: The Imagination at the Boundary: Phenomenological Variations and Pragmatism
Chapter 4: Imagination and Postmodernity
Chapter 5: Imagination and Postmodernity II: Narrative
Bibliography

About the author

By Patrick L. Bourgeois

Summary

This book, focusing on the central role of the imagination in contemporary philosophy, addresses challenges and problems that emerge today in conflicting positions, including a concentration on the role of the imagination in the work of Paul Ricoeur in contrast and in opposition to its role in such postmodern thinkers as Derrida and Lyotard.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick L Bourgeois, Patrick L. Bourgeois, Bourgeois Patrick L.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781498556514
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5651-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur; Studies in the Thought of Paul; Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -