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The Philosophical Imagination is a collection of essays ranging over a wide range of philosophical themes: from the emotional engagement with fictions, to the functioning of metaphor in poetry and in rhetoric, to the concept of beauty in Kant and in Proust, and the nature of the first-person perspective in thought and action.
List of contents
- Preface
- Art and Aesthetics
- 1. The Expression of Feeling in Imagination
- 2. Seeing and Believing: Metaphor, Image and Force
- 3. Artifice and Persuasion: the Work of Metaphor in Aristotle's Rhetoric
- 4. Kant, Proust and the Appeal of Beauty
- 5. Cavell on Recognition, Betrayal, and the Photographic Field of Expression
- 6. Proust and the Limits of the Will
- Readings of Contemporary Philosophers
- 7. Cavell on Outsiders and Others
- 8. Frankfurt on Identification: Ambiguities of Activity in Mental Life
- 9. On Frankfurt's The Reasons of Love (Princeton 2004)
- 10. Iris Murdoch and Existentialism
- 11. Bernard Williams, History, and the "Impurity of Philosophy"
- Agency and the First Person
- 12. Interpretation Theory and the First Person
- 13. Anscombe on Practical Knowledge
- 14. Anscombe on the Expression of Intention: An Exegesis (co-authored with Martin Stone)
- 15. Self-knowledge, "Transparency", and the Forms of Activity
- 16.The Story of My Life: Narrative and Self-Understanding
About the author
Richard Moran is Brian D. Young Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. His book Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge (Princeton, 2001) has been widely influential, and he has published on aesthetics, philosophy of action, speech and intersubjectivity, among other subjects. His book The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity was published by Oxford University Press in 2018.
Summary
The Philosophical Imagination is a collection of essays ranging over a wide range of philosophical themes: from the emotional engagement with fictions, to the functioning of metaphor in poetry and in rhetoric, to the concept of beauty in Kant and in Proust, and the nature of the first-person perspective in thought and action.
