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Abstract
How has the concept of productive imagination been developed in post-Kantian philosophy? This important and innovative volume explores this question, with particular focus on hermeneutics, phenomenology and neo-Kantianism.
The essays in this collection demonstrate that imagination is productive not only because it fabricates non-existent objects, but also because it shapes human experience and co-determines the meaning of the experienced world. The authors show how imagination forms experience at the kinaesthetic, pre-linguistic, poetic, historical, artistic, social and political levels.
The volume offers both a thematic and a historical overview of productive imagination understood as Kant originally wanted us to understand it.
This quite remarkable collection of essays on the productive imagination offers a rich repast well deserving to be savored in multiple sittings. The essays demonstrate both the complexity and diversity of the topic and offer productive efforts themselves to deepen and extend the subject. Kudos to Saulius Geniusas as editor for gathering such a thought-provoking group of authors.
George H. Taylor, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh
Saulius Geniusas is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of The Origins of the Horizon in Husserl’s Phenomenology (2012), co-editor of Hermeneutics and Phenomenology: Figures and Themes (with Paul Fairfield, forthcoming), Relational Hermeneutics: Essays in Comparative Philosophy (with Paul Fairfield, forthcoming), and Phenomenological Ethics (A Special Issue of Santalka: Filosofija, 17/3, 2009).
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination | Cover | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Editor’s Introduction | vii | ||
| 1 The Productive Power of the Imagination: Kant on the Schematism of the Understanding and the Symbolism of Reason | 1 | ||
| 2 Wilhelm Dilthey and the Formative-Generative Imagination | 23 | ||
| 3 Within and Beyond Productive Imagination: A Historical-Critical Inquiry into Phenomenology | 47 | ||
| 4 Two Starting Points in Heidegger’s Critical Interpretation of Kant’s Transcendental Imagination | 77 | ||
| 5 Miki Kiyoshi and the Logic of the Imagination | 91 | ||
| 6 Unpacking “the Imaginary Texture of the Real” with Kant, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty | 113 | ||
| 7 The Imaginary Texture of Beings and Its Ethical Implications: Rethinking Realism with Husserl and Merleau-Ponty | 129 | ||
| 8 Image-Picture versus Image-Fiction: Is Sartre Ignorant of Productive Imagination? | 147 | ||
| 9 On Castoriadis and the Social Imaginary Institution of the Real: Hermeneutic-Phenomenological Affinities and Critiques via His Dialogue with Merleau-Ponty | 163 | ||
| 10 Exploring Imagination with Paul Ricœur | 187 | ||
| 11 Social Imagery in Nonlinguistic Thinking about Social Topics: On the Strength of Fantasy in Thinking about Social Conflicts | 205 | ||
| 12 Productive Kinesthetic Imagination | 219 | ||
| Index | 239 | ||
| About the Authors | 251 |