Philosophy, Art, and the Imagination: Essays on the Work of John Sallis (Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology, 21)

This volume of essays on the philosopher John Sallis assesses his wide ranging and genuinely original contribution to philosophy. Along with the response to the essays by Sallis, these essays indicate directions for the future of philosophy. Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword: On Leaving Footprints: Some Remarks on the Legacy of John Sallis List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 A Brief Overview of the Work of John Sallis 1.1 Beginning on the Verge 1.2 At the Limit of Philosophy: Sense and Imagination 1.3 The Elemental and the Return to Nature 1.4 Space and Time 2 This Volume, in Outline 2.1 Beginning with Greek Philosophy 2.2 On Art and Translation 2.3 Concerns of Philosophy Part 1 Directions within Greek Philosophy Chapter 1 “Beneath the Earth and in the Heavens”: John Sallis in His Elements Chapter 2 Philosophy and Monstrosity, an Ode to Artemis 1 Plato’s Monsters 2 Misology Bibliography Chapter 3 Boundless Images: John Sallis and the Ancient Gods 1 Prologue: “Everything Is Full of Gods” 2 Archaic Experience 3 John Sallis and the “in Which” 4 Chora 5 A Technical Paradigm? 6 It Began and Never Was 7 Epiphanies 8 “A Practice of Adhering to What Appears” 9 His Thinking Is “Full of Gods” (Perhaps They Have Not Fled) Bibliography Chapter 4 “Shaggy, Lustful, Partly Animal”: John Sallis on Plato’s Symposium 1 “The Last Thinker of Metaphysics” 2 “In Plato’s Dialogues, There Is No Logic” 3 “Who Is Socrates?” Bibliography Chapter 5 The Stretch between Limitless Flow and Absolute Stasis: Figuring the Flow of Nature and the Determinacy of Being Part 2 On Art and Translation Chapter 6 Freeing the Eye Section i 1 Locating Painting in Sallis’ Work 2 The Break of the Sensible-Intelligible Duality 3 What Painting Does 4 Visibility 5 The Looks of Things 6 A Most Delicate Vibrancy Section ii 1 The Eye before the “I” 2 Image Painting at the Limit of the Visible 3 Disseminations, Painting’s Cosmological Inceptive Character Bibliography Chapter 7 Interpreting the “Sense” of Art 1 Sallis’ Approach to Art 2 The Question of Interpretation 3 Interpreting the Sense of Art Bibliography Chapter 8 To Speak of Art ... at the Limit Bibliography Chapter 9 On Translating John Sallis Part 3 Concerns of Philosophy Chapter 10 On the Way to the Sensible: Disrupting Simple Directions 1 Imagine Sensing and Sensed: Merleau-Ponty and the Sensible 2 Imagine Being-there: “Being to an Extent Sensible” Bibliography Chapter 11 John Sallis’ Liminal Phenomenology 1 Introduction 2 Phenomenology at the Limit of Philosophy 3 Imagination at Work in the Tracing of Things 4 Unity and Multiplicity in Liminal Phenomenology 5 Proper Elementals 6 Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 12 Elemental Ecology: Reading John Sallis in an Age of Earth Crisis 1 On Not Being at Home in the Interpreted World 2 Stone Scape 3 Landscape Bibliography Chapter 13 Force of Imagination as Critical Turning Point: Sallis and the Future of Philosophy Bibliography Response Bibliography Index "John Sallis has been at the cutting edge of the Continental philosophical tradition for almost half a century, and it is largely due to his contributions that we have come to understand "Continental" as designating an original philosophical, not a geographical, tradition. His work, with its uncommon scholarly rigor, has come to define the best of that tradition and to expand its horizons in creative ways through a genuine philosophical imagination. The essays gathered here are dedicated to assessing Sallis' contribution and to indicating some of the ways in which his works might shape the future of philosophy"-- Provided by publisher