What is imagination? Is it possible to reconcile the right to imagine with the right to justice? Are the claims of aesthetic creativity and moral responsibility compatible? This important new book provides a fascinating and accessible account of the major theories of imagination in modern European thought. Richard Kearney examines the theories of many European philosophers, including Husserl, Sartre, Heidegger and Kristeva. Poetics of Imagining breaks new ground by drawing together such diverse philosophies as existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, post-structuralism, post-modernism and deconstruction. It also displays the author's own passionate concern for the claims of the imagination in our postmodern world of fragmentation and fracture.
- ISBN10 0044454503
- ISBN13 9780044454502
- Publish Date 16 May 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 March 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English