Poetics of Imagining: From Husserl to Lyotard (Problems of Modern European Thought)

Kearney, Richard. Poetics of Imaging. From Husserl to Lyotard. First Edition. London, Harper Collins, 1991. 15 x 22 cm. XIII, 234 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. [Problems of Modern European Thought] Contains among others the following chapters: The phenomenological imagination (Husserl); The existential imagination (Sartre); The poetical imagination (Bachelard); The dialectical imagination (Merleau-Ponty); The hermeneutic imagination (Ricoeur); The post-modern imagination: (i) A labyrinth of mirrors (Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida) (ii) Towards a post-modern hermeneutic of imagination (Vattimo, Kristeva, Lyotard) etc. Part of a series intended to relate continental philosophy to philosophical work in England, this book examines the work of Husserl, Sartre, Foucault and Lyotard. The essays focus on the imagination, from such perspectives as the phenomenological, existential and post-modern. Richard Kearney. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.