Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-modern (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)

Analyzes and assesses the decisive contributions made to our understanding of the imaginary life of phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard), hermeneutics (Heidegger, Ricœur), and postmodernism (Vattimo, Kristeva, Lyotard) . . . superb and highly recommended. -The Midwest Book Review Booknews Explores questions about the origins of imagination, and the relationship of aesthetic considerations to ethical ones. Discusses theories of the imagination from such disciplines as phenomenology (discussing Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Bachelard), hermeneutics (Heidegger and Ricouer), and postmodernism (Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Vattimo, Kristeva, and Lyotard). Paper edition (1872-4), $19.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. Richard Kearney has produced a new and revised edition of his classic book Poetics of Imagining. This volume offers an accessible account of the major theories of imagination in modern European thought. It analyzes and assesses the decisive contributions made to our understanding of the imaginary life of phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard), hermeneutics (Heidegger, Ricoeur) and postmodernism (Vattimo, Kristeva, Lyotard). Richard Kearney achieves this with a coherent and committed approach which displays his own passionate concern for the claims of imagination in our postmodern world of fragmentation and fracture.