Author : Kearney Richard Kearney
Release : 2019-07-31
Genre : Imagination (Philosophy)
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Poetics of Imagining by : Kearney Richard Kearney
Download or read book Poetics of Imagining written by Kearney Richard Kearney. This book was released on 2019-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Kearney has produced a new and revised paperback 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 analyses and assesses the decisive contributions made to our understanding of the imaginary life of phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard), hermeuneutics (Heidegger, Ricoeur) and post-modernism (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 post-modern world of fragmentation and fracture.