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How has the concept of productive imagination been developed in post-Kantian philosophy? This important and innovative volume explores this question, with particular focus on hermeneutics, phenomenology and neo-Kantianism.
The essays in this collection demonstrate that imagination is productive not only because it fabricates non-existent objects, but also because it shapes human experience and co-determines the meaning of the experienced world. The authors show how imagination forms experience at the kinaesthetic, pre-linguistic, poetic, historical, artistic, social and political levels.
The volume offers both a thematic and a historical overview of productive imagination understood as Kant originally wanted us to understand it.
List of contents
Introduction / Chapter 1. Günter Zöller: The Productive Power of the Imagination. Kant on the Schematism of the Understanding and the Symbolism of Reason / Chapter 2. Eric S. Nelson: Wilhelm Dilthey and the Formative-Generative Imagination / Chapter 3. Claudio Majolino: Within and Beyond Productive Imagination. A Historical-Critical Inquiry into Phenomenology / Chapter 4. Qingjie James Wang: Two Starting Points in Heidegger's Critical Interpretation of Kant's Transcendental Imagination / Chapter 5. Saulius Geniusas: Miki Kiyoshi and the Logic of the Imagination / Chapter 6. Kathleen Lennon: Unpacking 'the Imaginary Texture of the Real' with Kant, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty / Chapter 7. Annabelle Dufourcq: The Imaginary Texture of Beings and Its Ethical Implications: Rethinking Realism with Husserl and Merleau-Ponty / Chapter 8. Kwok-ying Lau: Image-picture vs Image-fiction: Is Sartre Ignorant of Productive Imagination? / Chapter 9. Suzi Adams: On Castoriadis and the Social Imaginary Institution of the Real: Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Affinities and Critiques via His Dialogue with Merleau-Ponty / Chapter 10. Richard Kearney: Exploring Imagination with Paul Ricœur / Chapter 11. Dieter Lohmar: Social Imagery in Non-Linguistic Thinking about Social Topics. On the Strength of Fantasy in Thinking about Social Conflicts / Chapter 12. Gediminas Karoblis: Productive Kinaesthetic Imagination / Index
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Edited by Saulius Geniusas
Summary
This innovative collection traces the heretical development of productive imagination in post-Kantian philosophy. The book offers an original study that comprises unprecedented investigations into the kinaesthetic, pre-linguistic, poetic, historical, artistic, social and political dimensions of the productive power of imagination.
