John Llewellyn

The Hypocritical Imagination (eBook, ePUB)

Between Kant and Levinas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For philosophers such as Kant, the imagination is the starting point for all thought. For others, such as Wittgenstein, what is important is only how the word 'imagination' is used. In spite of the attention the imagination has received from major philosophers, remarkably little has been written about the radically different interpretations they have made of it.
The HypoCritical Imagination: Between Kant and Levinas is an outstanding contribution to this vaccuum. Focusing on Kant and Levinas, John Llewelyn takes us on a dazzling tour of the philosophical imagination. He shows us that despite the different treatments they accord to the imagination, there is much to be gained from comparing these two key thinkers. From Kant, Llewelyn shows how the imagination is the common root of all understanding. He contrasts this with the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, for whom the imagination plays an ambivalent role both as necessary for and a threat to recognition of the other.
John Llewelyn also introduces the importance of the work of Heidegger Schelling, Hegel, Arendt and Derrida on the imagination and what this work can tell us about the relationship between the imagination and ethics, aesthetics and literature.
The HypoCritical Imagination: Between Kant and Levinas is a brilliant reading of a neglected but important philosophical theme and is essential reading for those in contemporary philosophy, art theory and literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134613090
• Artikelnr.: 38401232

Autorenporträt

John Llewelyn first taught philosophy at the University of New England, Australia, and has been Reader in Philosophy at Edinburgh University and Visiting Professor at the University of Memphis and Loyola University of Chicago. His books include the acclaimed Emmanuel Levinas: The Genealogy of Ethics, also published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Prologue
Part 1 Back Through Kant
Chapter 2 Imagination as Medial Diathesis
Chapter 3 Constructive Imagination as Connecting Middle
Chapter 4 Antinomy as Dialectical Imagination in Hegel's Critique of Kant
Chapter 5 Dialectical Imagination as Deconstruction
Chapter 6 Imadgination as the meaning of Being
Part 2 From Levinas
Chapter 7 Levinas's Critical and Hypocritical Diction
Chapter 8 Arendt's Critique of Political Judgement
Part 3 To the Things Themselves
Chapter 9 Respect as Effective Affectivity
Chapter 10 Aesthethics
Chapter 11 Alethaesthethics
Chapter 12 Epilogue