Logic of Imagination: The Expanse of the Elemental (Studies in Continental Thought)

The Shakespearean Image Of A Tempest And Its Aftermath Forms The Beginning As Well As A Major Guiding Thread Of Logic Of Imagination. Moving Beyond The Horizons Of His Earlier Work, Force Of Imagination, John Sallis Sets Out To Unsettle The Traditional Conception Of Logic, To Mark Its Limits, And, Beyond These Limits, To Launch Another, Exorbitant Logic--a Logic Of Imagination. Drawing On A Vast Range Of Sources, Including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, And Freud, As Well As Developments In Modern Logic And Modern Mathematics, Sallis Shows How A Logic Of Imagination Can Disclose The Most Elemental Dimensions Of Nature And Of Human Existence And How, Through Dialogue With Contemporary Astrophysics, It Can Reopen The Project Of A Philosophical Cosmology. --publisher Description. Precursions -- The Logic Of Contradiction -- Formal Logic And Beyond -- Exorbitant Logics -- The Look Of Things -- Schematism -- Proper Elementals -- Elemental Cosmology John Sallis. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Content: Cover Title Copyright Contents List of Plates Acknowledgments Precursions I The Tempest II Tracings III Legacies IV Spiralings 1 The Logic of Contradiction A Ones B A Principle Most Firm, Steadfast, Sure C Another Logic D Logic as Metaphysics of Contradiction E Contradiction at the Limit 2 Formal Logic and Beyond A Divergences B Pure Logic C Transcendental Logic D Dismantlings 3 Exorbitant Logics A Infraction B The Field of Things C Kettle Logic 4 The Look of Things A Showings B Doubling Looks C The Look of Sense 5 Schematism A The Elementals and Their Texture. B Preeminent SpacingsC Schemata of Imagination D Before the Elemental 6 Proper Elementals A The Space of Propriety B Seclusion C Natal Mortality 7 Elemental Cosmology A The Expanse Beyond B Unabsolved Space C Stretch of Imagination Index.

The Shakespearean image of a tempest and its aftermath forms the beginning as well as a major guiding thread of Logic of Imagination. Moving beyond the horizons of his earlier work, Force of Imagination, John Sallis sets out to unsettle the traditional conception of logic, to mark its limits, and, beyond these limits, to launch another, exorbitant logic—a logic of imagination. Drawing on a vast range of sources, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud, as well as developments in modern logic and modern mathematics, Sallis shows how a logic of imagination can disclose the most elemental dimensions of nature and of human existence and how, through dialogue with contemporary astrophysics, it can reopen the project of a philosophical cosmology.

Discusses logic beyond the limits of reason