With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as: Hebraic, Greek, medieval, Romantic, existential and post-modern.
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Richard Kearney is Professor at Boston College and University College Dublin. He has written many books, including Postnationalist Ireland (Routledge 1996).
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Imagination lives,
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Richard Kearney's philosophical approach to the question of imagination takes into account the related disciplines of history, sociology, political economy, theology, art, and art criticism. He investigates the concepts of imagination as they appear in the Hebraic and Greek traditions and as they emerged through the medieval, modern, and postmodern periods of our cultural history. This historical inquiry gives a context to his insightful articulation of the postmodern time and the concept of a creative imagination as a passing illusion of the western humanist, consumer, capitalist culture. He proposes the possibility of a postmodern imagination capable of preserving the functions of narrative identity and creativity - or what he calls the poetics of the possible.This includes a response to the postmodern dilemma with a reinterpretation of the role of imagination as a relationship between the self and other, a democratization of knowledge and culture, as ethically and poetically attuned to the lost narrative of historical meaning,and as inclusive, empathetic, versatile, open minded, and diversive. This book is a vital, intellegent analysis and guide for creativity, art, and imagination in our present postmodern culture.
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He spoke of the beginning, chaos and old night, and their division by God's word; He recited the vigorous, blithely plural summons of God to Himself, the enterprising proposal: 'Let us make man' . . . and indeed did God not go on to say: 'in our image, after our likeness'? Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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He spoke of the beginning, chaos and old night, and their division by God's word; He recited the vigorous, blithely plural summons of God to Himself, the enterprising proposal: 'Let us make man' . . . and indeed did God not go on to say: 'in our image, after our likeness'? Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, Critique of Pure Reason, Middle Ages, Rabbi Hayyim, Palace of Living Arts, New Testament, Holy Spirit, Richard of St Victor, Book of Creation, Divided Line, Ben Vautier, Don Juan, Church Fathers, Frederic Jameson, Los Angeles, Paul Ricoeur, Sefer Yetsirah, Van Gogh, Venus de Milo New!
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- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on 16 pages
- Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre on 9 pages
- The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault on 9 pages
- Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Fifth Edition, Enlarged (Studies in Continental Thought) by Martin Heidegger on 7 pages
- Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre on 6 pages
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- How Good an Historian Shall I Be? R.G. Collingwood, the Historical Imagination and Education (British Idealist Studies: Seri) by Marnie Hughes-Warrington on 5 pages
- Hidden Mutualities: Faustian Themes from Gnostic Origins to the Postcolonial (Cross/Cultures 87) (Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English) by Michael Mitchell on 4 pages
- After Theory by Thomas Docherty in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Spirituality and the Occult by Brian Gibbons in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education by Henry A. Giroux on page 38, page 85, and page 250
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